Dan Surber,Captains Concrete, Captains Plumbing, Kitchen Remodeling, Drain Cleaning, Basement Water Damage. Runs adds for many things.Runs ads on Craigslist for all these things. Required a down payment for work first but did never would come back to do work. Kept saying he would but has not. Springfield Ohio
We needed a new concrete driveway and patio installed and I contacted Mr. Dan Surber, the owner of Captains Concrete. I later found out that he also runs ads for Plumbing work, Kitchen remodeling, Basement Water damage and a few other things that I'm now sure he knows nothing about. He is located in Springfield Ohio and the project was located in Cincinnati Ohio. I made it a point of asking him if he was sure he didn't have a problem driving down to Cincinnati to do the work and he said he did not. he runs ads on Craigslist and you may find ads on other internet sites.
He had e-mailed me a price after he looked at the work. I asked him to meet me at the house to go other the project before I told him to proceed, just to be sure he knew the scope of work. When I met him at the house he said he would required one half down payment before he started and the final amount after he was done. This was a $4,000 concrete project. I told him I could not do that but I would give him half of the money when he demoed the old concrete and got the area ready for new concrete. He called me the first day of work and said he needed to pay his guys and would need some money then. He said he would be back the next two days to finish the project so I gave him some money. After he got the money he never did show up again to do anything else. He didn't even finish the work he was already paid for. He also left all the old concrete in piles al over my yard. I found out later that he had hired a guy down the street from me to provide wood forms and install those concrete forms. Some of the forms were installed but not even finished and the guy down the road he had hired said the forms and steel stakes also belonged to him and that he would have to remove them so he could use them somewhere else, before Dan Surber installed my concrete since Mr. Surber would never come back. I also found out later that Mr. Dan Surber of Captains Concrete has also scamed other retired older people by taking a down payment and never showing up to do the work. I am in the process of trying to get their names and addresses so maybe we all can file charges on Mr. Dan Surber and put him in jail before he Scams other retired older people or anyone else for that matter. I am also contacting the State of Ohio and Filing charges and maybe locking Mr. Dan Surber up in Jail. This is going to be a long process but I will take it as far as I can, no matter what the cost. This guy has been scamming people for years I'm sure and he has to be stopped. I tried contacting him for a couple of months and he kept saying he would return to do the work but he never would show up. All he wanted was the down payment money and then he was gone. I am a retired person and I will spend all my remaining days going after this guy. This is not right to do this to anyone much less older people who don't have enough money to live on as it is!! Watch out for Dan Surber, Captains Concrete, Captains Plumbing and a few other names I'm sure he going by. The phone numbers he has used is 937-460-5399, 937-591-2185, 937-523-0720. One of these phone numbers is a throw away phone so you cannot get any info from tracking down that phone number. Stay away from this guy!!!!