can anyone recommend another regrouter?

(His name actually is Lewis Eklund and his company is "St. Remi Renovation." )

My husband and I hired Lewis to renovate our investment apartment. He redid our hardwood floor, kitchen, bathroom, fixed the ceiling wall and painting all the apartment. The apartment is a prewar studio with many details. He did an excellent job and paid attention in those prewar details.

Since this apartment is for investment, my husband and I had to be a bit in a cost cautious side. We discussed this cost issue with Lewis as well as other contractors while doing initially interviews. Several of contractors suggested us to replace almost everything which would definitely too high cost for us and we would loose some of original prewar charms. Lewis was understanding about our budget issue and the need to restore prewar charms. He worked with us in keeping the cost down and made the most improvement out of it.

Our apartment used to be in the condition where NOONE would want to rent it. Lewis made it into an apartment that everyone who come to view it wanted to sign the lease right on the spot.

(The apartment was showed only 1 hours and I was pushed by literally everyone who viewed it to let them rent the apartment. I wish I have another 10 more of the same apartment to give to everybody, but I have just only one. I felt bad somehow to rejected the rest of very high qualified people, but just had to be first come first serve.)

We are very happy with his work. So glad that I found his phone number from this AT website. We would definitely have him does our next project again whether it's our own new home or investment properties. Highly recommend him!

Forgot to mention that Lewis is licensed contractor. Our investment studio apartment is co-op in midtown Manhattan so it's the co-op rule that we have to hire licensed contractor.

I did the research on license information and on BBB website after the initial interviews with all every contractor.(Just be very careful after hearing so many horror stories on the news and from some people I know.) I found that Lewis has been in business for 30 years with NO complain.

Can anyone tell me how to get in touch with Mr. Eklund?

Here's the number to contact Mr. Eklund: 718-507-5934

If you hire Lewis Eklund, this is what will happen. He will give you a reference from a job he did 10 years ago with a woman he is friends with. He will seem nice and honest enough. She will give him a decent reference. He will complain to you why he wants to quit the business and get into nursing bc he hates all the clients he has to work with and he hates other contractors even worse. And soon you will realize why he does not get along with anyone. He will tell you the job will take 3-4 weeks. But he will show up only 3 hours a day or less. And on other days he will not show up at all. He will leave your home in a mess, strewn with garbage, half eaten food, cat food, debris, dust, soda cans. He will half heartedly vacuum, leaving concrete bits and other grit that will slowly destroy your wood floors. He will work topless, leaving stained and stinking multiple t-shirts, pants, and pairs of shoes and crumpled piles throughout your home. He will use your refrigerator and dishware at his leisure, leaving crusted, impossible to remove, sandy, muddy fingerprints throughout your kitchen. He will not drape plastic around like he promised he would, letting bags of fine cement powder explode daily, which will take you 7 days of cleaning to get out of all the crevices it has sunk into. Each week, he will have a new excuse as to why the job is not finished yet, and not to worry, next week, the work is 'gonna fly'. Yet the next week, there will be another round of excuses until you find that it has now taken 8 weeks longer, or 3 times as long as he said it would take. He will display poor craftsmanship, not leveling, and not planning ahead on tile layout, leaving odd slivers of tile throughout. He will tell you about how he threatens other contractors he doesnt get along with, telling them he will beat them with a lead pipe. He will say that he threw a brick through the window of a Manhattan bath retailer over an argument. If you come home early you may find an entire bag of popcorn exploded onto your floor and ground into your rug. He will clog up your brand new sink by washing all the cement, grout, and caulk chunks down the drain, even though you asked him not to. He will tell you don't worry he will have help next week, and it will go much faster... but he will not have help. The grout he puts in will be uneven in color, completely missing in spots, and globs of excess left thoughout. And finally before the job is nearly done, he will demand the remainder of the money. He will not admit to the damage he caused to your floors, and he will refuse to finish the job, and will leave you hysterical voicemails, and will threaten you to pay him the remainder without the job being finished. I am not sure why others here have had a more positive experience with Lew. Perhaps something happened to him that he has changed his attitude. I have hired a variety of contractors in the past, and Lew was by far the worst nightmare that ever happened to my home and my family. I hired Lew as a result of seeing the positive reviews here on AT. I am so extremely disappointed in how it all turned out. I am now posting this to hopefully keep others from making the same mistake. Judge for yourself in reading my review and others. Proceed with caution.