A crazed Colorado contractor took a sledgehammer to the tiles and walls of a bathroom he had just finished remodeling because of a payment dispute with the homeowner, a video shot by the client's neighbor shows.
Terry Gregory of Dream Home Remodels can be seen swinging the giant sledgehammer, knocking the new tiling and installations from the shower's walls, while bellowing between bouts of demolition.
'We put weeks into this, thousands of dollars into this,' Gregory raged over the lack of final payment by Amber Trucke of Colorado Springs.
Trucke's neighbor asks Gregory repeatedly to cut it out: 'I'm just asking you to stop - this is not your house to destroy.'
'Is somebody going to pay me,' Gregory yelled back before he resumes the destruction.
'Let me tell you something,' he said to the neighbor, out of breath and gesturing with a sawzall, before he and his wife and business partner Jordan Cazares leave the house. 'No contractor in the state of Colorado will fix that when they found out I took it back because you refused to pay me. No one.’
Homeowner Amber Trucke posted pictures of the wrecked shower to her Facebook page
Trucke said she paid the two contractors $3,330 of an owed $7,555, according to invoices she posted to her Facebook account.
Cazares sent Trucke a Facebook Pay request for the remainder on Friday morning, according to conversations with Trucke posted on Facebook.
She told the homeowner that she had until that evening to pay up.
Initially, Trucke asked to return from work, see the finished product, get receipts proving that the contractors had ordered a yet-uninstalled shower door and ensure that water would flow properly through the newly-installed plumbing before paying.
Around 9.30 am on Saturday, 23 hours after the contractor demanded payment, Cazares and Gregory came back to Trucke's apartment while she was at work, demolition equipment in hand.
'That's it. 23 hours,' Trucke wrote on Facebook. [Because] I didn't pay in 23 hours (there is NO statement from me in writing or otherwise to them that I wasn't going to pay) they showed up like thugs and destroyed my property.'
'We put weeks into this, thousands of dollars into this,' Terry Gregory of Dream Home Remodels of Colorado shouted between bouts of beating away tiling. 'Is somebody going to pay me?'
‘I’m more than happy to deal with the place,' Gregory muttered in the video. 'More than happy. More than happy. More than happy.'
Gregory can be seen flashing a middle finger to Trucke's doorbell camera as he walks up her driveway.
The unidentified neighbor rushed to the house and began filming after she saw the contractors' truck pull up asked the pair whether Trucke was expecting anyone.
Gregory can be seen flashing a middle finger to Trucke's doorbell camera as he walks up her driveway.
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'That's it. 23 hours,' Trucke wrote on Facebook. [Because] I didn't pay in 23 hours (there is NO statement from me in writing or otherwise to them that I wasn't going to pay) they showed up like thugs and destroyed my property'
Trucke posted a list qualms that she had with the remodeling job that she last edited on September 9 to allay claims that she complained post-hock to get a free or discounted installation
Amber Trucke paid contractors from Dream Home Remodels of Colorado $3,330 of an owed $7,555, according to invoices she posted to her Facebook account
'This is my property, I have receipts for everything,' Gregory said.
‘That’s not taking back your stuff, that's...' the neighbor trails off, rendered speechless.
'It is our stuff, this is how we need to take it back because we solidly built it construction unfortunately so it won’t just fall off,' replies Cazares.
Gregory takes a break from the demolition to lean up against the doorframe and address the neighbor.
‘I’m more than happy to deal with the place,' he said
'More than happy. More than happy. More than happy,' he muttered.
Since the footage circulated online, Dream Homes Remodeling of Colorado has taken down its Facebook page and website.
Trucke, who lives with her dog and a roommate, who let the contractors back in on Saturday while Trucke was at work, figuring they were coming to pick up their materials
'They showed up with just a crowbar, a sawzall, and a sledgehammer,' Trucke told KRDO
'Watching it just brings tears to my eyes,' she told the outlet. 'It makes me sick, it makes me scared. This is more than just trashing my bathroom, my sense of safety is gone'
Cazares told MailOnline that 'even with removing the shower from her invoice she actually still owes almost $2000 for completed work that is still in her home'
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‘Water cannot [yet] be used unless you want to ruin the entire thing,’ said Cazares in the pair’s Messenger back-and-forth. ‘Never in my career has someone tried to hold payment for the curing time of group and adhesives'
'Never in my life has someone expected me to pay for work I haven't checked out first,' Trucke shot back
Trucke said that she never said or wrote that she didn't intend to pay
Cazares said that Trucke owes her company more than $2,000 for a vanity, mirror, light fixture, 2 ceiling fans, plumbing work, fixing rotten framing in her walls and an exterior door replacement. Trucke insists she paid for those items
'At the end of a bathroom renovation and several other home improvement projects, communication between our company and Ms. Trucke broke down,' Cazares told MailOnline
'Payment was refused, and we ended up repossessing a tile shower. We did not enter the home with any intentions of damage to her property nor intimidating anyone present'
Trucke lives with her dog and a roommate, who let the contractors in on Saturday while Trucke was at work, figuring they were coming to pick up their materials.
'They showed up with just a crowbar, a sawzall (electric handsaw), and a sledgehammer,' Trucke told KRDO.
'Watching it just brings
