Avoid Darren!!!! Agreed payment plan in August for £1500…read moremessaged in January obviously had no jobs on I asked to wait 2 weeks he doubled the price to 3000 then put me off again till March! He's discusting and a liar!

Darren gave me an initial quote, which got higher as the original materials requested weren't…read moreavailable. For most of the job, lasting 2 weeks, the only people who were consistently on the job were a general labourer and a new employee who hadnt landscaped before but we were quoted for professional landscapers. As the job went on Darren changed the design and, as I thought, exchanged the patio tiles I had paid for in exchange for a composite walkway in the same material used for my patio, he changed the layout of the steps and the size of the deck. On completion there were numerous issues which Darren agreed were substandard as he had rushed the end of the job to finish to deadline. He then presented me with a bill for an additional £1500 on top of the £14000 I had already paid him. This was far in excess of his quote. We refused to pay as Darren could provide no invoices and had removed substantial excess materials from the property for use on other jobs, but finally after 5 months of argument Darren agreed to make good the problems F.O.C. That was in November and we are still waiting, despite pleading with him to come and make good on his promises. I hate leaving this review because his workers never stopped, in all weather's and Darrens ideas are lovely. Sadly, he cannot run his business effectively and if you hire him I'd warn you to check everything you you pay him for and gets itemized receipts for the materials. We paid £14000 for a town garden to be decked, flagged and astro turfed. We have since asked 2 other landscapers what we should have paid and they agreed the cost with labour should have been approx £9000!!!

Bob and his team came and landscaped my garden, just want to say a big thank you. In a word…read moreAMAZEING. Price was well cheaper than the other 5 quotes i had too. Plenty more work for him this summer, Thanks young man. From Paul, At Blaymires Plumbing & Heating 07961 863549

i got first 4 gardens in to give me a quote they was not the cheapest but the quaility of work was…read moresecond to none. bob from first 4 gardens helped me design my garden as was not sure what to do with it. bob installed a patio with a raised pond layed new turf and built me a hand built 6ft fence my garden looks amazing. i now have first 4 gardens in to maintain my gardens every two weeks and it always looks like new thankyou bob would reccomend first 4 gardens to anyone.

Abs landscaped my sloping garden including decking and several flower beds. A few months later…read morethere was an issue and Abs promptly came and resolved it. Would recommend him.

Absalom explains very clearly what he is doing, how much, how long it will take and how many people…read morewill be on the job:- then does something completely different. Perhaps that was because we were two women in our 70s so he thought he could get away with it. Instead of taking paving up as promised he put new ones on top of broken paving and grass! Instead of taking a week he took 2and a half days. Apart from the first line of paving none of it was straight. When I pointed these things out to him he said that what he had done would hold up and he had worked hard on his own! We paid for his materials but no more as we now have to have it all taken up and done again.

We found Stephen Heap / Grass No Mower / Barlick Landscapes on mybuilder.com…read more We fell for his patter and bullshit and hired him to lay a patio and artificial grass. It is amazing how long a job can drag on when you only turn up for two or three days a week and spend so much time drinking coffee and sleeping in your van. It is now the end of August and he has pocketed our money and abandoned the job leaving behind a complete mess. The patio has puddles all over it when it rains The drains he installed worked until he or one of his "experts" poured wet cement down them! The grass is uneven and in some places has metal sticking up out of it, The fence has three panels missing. The Gates never arrived (He promissed to fit them the next day about 30 times). The worse thing you can do is give this guy any money or hire him for a job. Pictures available of his work here http://reviewyourtradesman.uk/ We have not seen Stephen for weeks and now need to hire somebody else to complete the job he was paid to do!

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