AWFUL!! I spent weeks researching & reading reviews before choosing Horacio Parral. When he came for the estimate he sounded like he knew what he was doing. I had a 6x8 slab I was expanding to 10x20ft & he advised he could do an overlay with no problem. He told me he would have to dig out the grass because you NEVER pour concrete over grass he said. He told me the outermost part would be thicker because my yard slants some so it would be about 5 inches at the highest point. He also asked if he could use all the 12x12 inch concrete pavers that I was getting rid of to use as fillers that they crush down.
For starters he didn't do any of that. He didn't dig out the grass. He told me the concrete would be thick enough & it didn't need to be dug out. As far as the pavers he was going to crush down & use as filler, he simply set them out randomly all over the area & set the rebar on top of it, never crushed a single one of them. The porch is 7 inches high instead of 5...he simply sd "oh and I made it thicker". The porch literally comes right up to my back door & I expressed my concern of what is going to happen when it rains! He sd it slopes so nothing to worry about. The frame & rebar that he set up was about 2 inch off of the ground, instead of being inside the supposed to be dug out ground, so when they poured the concrete from the truck it just poured out the bottom around all 3 sides. He just walked around the outside of the frame & shoveled it back in where Joe was. I had no idea the extent of how bad it was until Tues morn after it had started to dry & turn white but I have concrete around all 3 sides coming out about a foot into the grass & then there is concrete all over the back of my house, windows, doors. He told me all I had to do was get a wire metal brush to clean it off the brick. I have spent hours every night for the last week outside scraping brick & hammering all the concrete off the ground, and picking up huge concrete nails left in the grass, which is very unsafe when you have kids around. It doesn't end there...to top it all off I had just had a brand new fence installed about a month prior that he sd they would take a panel off so the concrete truck could get through to the backyard. Instead he pulled off like 6 pickets, without taking the nails out first & broke them all! Then he decided it might be better to take the whole panel off instead. Then the chute of the concrete truck took out the top of more of the fence and Horacio just looked at me and shrugged. When they were planning on leaving I walked arnd & told them they needed to do something to fix the piles of concrete literally that formed svrl inchces all around the bottom on all sides. The guy went around with a hammer knocking it down & by doing so it would show the bricks and pavers underneath the slab. The entire 20 ft across the front looks AWFUL! It looks like a 3 yr old went to town molding the sides & there is grass and dirt all stuck because they just took the concrete that spilled into the grass and added water and slapped it on there with their hands. Oh and I have a perfectly formed handprint (probably from his young son that he brought along to help) right out in the open that I can't hide. As of the next day the top of the concrete when I got home was all starting to crack already. I will also mention that Horacio does about 10% of the work. He basically let Joe do the other 90%, while he complained how hot it was, even though I pointed out that Joe was doing all the work. Then after being guilted into getting him "cash" for the job, he sends me a text before they left not pay him in front of Joe and his son. He promised me an invoice if I paid cash in which I have been waiting 8 days now for. Yes that is my mistake for even paying him w/out getting it but I thought he was an honest man and would stick to his word. He hounded me several times that night after he left to do a review after I had already told him I would the next day. However when the next day came and I saw the extent of the mess I now had & he sent yet another text asking for my review I finally told him what the review was going to say if I did it & told him everything that was wrong & that needed to be fixed. He promised up and down that "he would make it right" and "he would never do me wrong". I have gotten multiple texts telling me he would email the invoice or bring it by. Still waiting but not holding my breath and frankly I'm not waiting for him to come "fix" anything.
Maybe he doesn't do this to men, but women beware... I will post this review on EVERY site I can find his name on in hopes of preventing one homeowner the frustration I have been going through. If anyone wants to see pictures I will be GLAD to share and if any of the other review sites allow me to upload the pictures I will. read more