A Dal-tile Service Center representative highly recommend an unlicensed tiller (against their company policy) to us which we hired to install tile in our home based on their recommendation, without knowing the company was not properly licensed as a home improvement contractor in NJ. The company did a horrible tile job and we are taking legal actions against them to have it all ripped out and replaced.
When we ran out of tile, we purchased one box of tile on the contractors account from the Dal-tile Service Center. Dal-tile Service centers will not sell to private parties.
We submitted a Subpoena Deuces Tecum to Dal-tile to obtain a copy of the Contractor receipt stating the tilling contractors name and confirming the purchase on his account and now the Dal-tile Legal department claims they can not find the contractor receipt proving this purchase. We do have a credit card receipt of the purchase though. Is what Dal-tile is doing here legal?
BellZB, you are wrong: The NJ state law requires all companies accepting money for home improvement work to be done in third party private properties to be Registered and licensed with the NJ Department of Consumer Affairs as a Home Improvement Contractor. This requirement applies to all home improvement professions not covered by a professional license (Electricians & Plumbers) such as Tillers, Painters, Floor installers, Roofers, Siding installers, Masons, etc. I suggest that you contact the NJ Department of Consumer Affairs so you can get your facts straight.
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/adoption/hictrado2_111.htm
13:45A-16.1A Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise.
“Home improvement” means the remodeling, altering, painting, repairing, renovating, restoring, moving, demolishing, or modernizing of residential or noncommercial property or the making of additions thereto,