Fraudulent billing practices - I was assigned Cope Construction by my insurance company to repair my basement after a flood. I had some additional work done which was all negotiated ahead of time. Ed Cope the owner first attempted to hide payments received by Aviva and charge me for the work totaling $3,832.08. After working with my insurance company to find out the date and amount paid to Promus Ed Cope reluctantly reduced the bill for those payments, but also created new charges for labour regarding the cabinets installed totaling 32 hours of labour at $43/hr. After contacting the cabinet manufacturer to get an estimated time to install the cabinets I got a response of 3-6 hours. He also attempted to charge me for a door that he did not do the work for for another $584. Finally he attempted within his billing to double up the overhead and profit charges, hiding them in the individual billing line items and then charging the entire total with a second round of overhead and profit. In total Ed has attempted to omit, overcharge, or create additional billings totaling $6,208. Be very careful when dealing with this company, it is not trustworthy.