I hired this contractor for a paving job in August 2022. The company did a good job. However when removing the old pavement they hit a second layer of pavement and the owner said he would have to charge me more, but it would not be much. It was $3000 more! However, it looked good and I asked the owner, Mike Hamel, to do another job. He forgot about me, but after I called him in October said he'd get a crew there before winter kicked in. He send a crew of three, one who was new, one who had never paved before and a supervisor who told me he didn't usually operated the large machines. He told me the owner and his wife usually did, but they were in Florida.
The supervisor let one of the workers operate the machine to learn and he dumped too much pavement in the middle and on the sidewalk making a hump where the driveway used to be flat. They were supposed to remove gravel so that the pavement was even with the remaining gravel drive and spread the gravel on the gravel section and level it. They merely laid the pavement down. There is a hump in the middle and a 3 or 4 inch drop to the gravel and the pavement is 3 or 4 inches higher than the lawn.
I called and texted the owner in November and he said the drop to the driveway is normal. I know it is not as I've had a driveway that was part pavement and gravel before. Also plenty of VT roads go from pavement to gravel and there isn't a 3 or 4 inch different in height.
The owner has not responded to me since November.
Also the company's website says it's BBB accredited and has an A+ rating and I just discovered its not and has a B- rating. read more
