Unreliable and untrustworthy. Appalling work. Takes money (upfront) and then thinks a good idea…read moreto block your number. He doesn't live at the above address. I'm having another fencing contractor in to correct all the faults Dan kindly made and trying to get my money back via court. He is very friendly and helpful until he gets your money and then it all goes wrong. I have wobbly fence posts, uneven panels and mounds of concrete above soil level. He didn't arrive at agreed times and let me down time after time with the day he was supposed to be returning. Now he doesn't answer the phone. Unsurprisingly, there are few traders in Colchester who will deal with him and he has to pay cash. Have given one star, if I could have given less, I would have.

This is our experience of Danny at Affordable Fencing: Danny arrived on time to provide a free…read morequote, if we wished to take up his estimate for picket fencing and an extended patio area which was estimated at £390 then he required a £240 deposit for supplies. We went ahead with his quotation based on his estimate and transferred £240 for Danny to begin work on a Friday. Friday arrived and Danny did not arrive nor make any contact to provide us with reasons for him not having turned up. I phoned Danny and he said he had lost the telephone number. Whilst we had already committed as £240 had been transferred we agreed to him starting work the following day, which he did, admittedley 3 hours later than agreed. He worked into the evening and the picket fencing work is of a good standard, yet his extending of the patio area is not as there are paving slabs that are rocking and quite uneven. Again Danny requested £60 for further supplied that evening as he needed to return as he had not enough time to complete the job. He returned the next day, again late (albeit a Sunday but he turned up at 5pm & no contact to let us know when he would turn up). I have contacted Danny to request he repair the rocking paving and he said he would come to rectiffy but has not turned up - and I doubt he will....

Shane turns up usually around 10.30am with his cousin Vinnie and leaves around 3.30pm, which he…read morecalls a full day. Shane spends much of his time in his van on the phone leaving the work to Vinnie, who is a labourer with no particular skills. Hence the job is never completed and then they ALWAYS ask for more money to finish the job, or threaten to walk off site. Shane has no tools or equipment other than what he borrows from his Uncle and his Dad. He used mine mostly. Any digger or tree surgeon he hires in at your cost. He only cuts trees from the ground or using a ladder (which he leaves the customer to clear!). Shane never clears up his mess, work is shoddy at best. (e.g, the fencing posts they did was wonkey, and then they took a chainsaw to the tops to make them the same height!). They left our garden looking like a travellers site with our tools lying around, branches left for us to cut and clear, and their empty energy drink cans all over the place. WORST IN KENT AND ESSEX.

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