To good to be true, and it was.
We were quoted a decent price for two patches of sod total area less than 1000 square feet with under the grass drip lines.
work was done by Renee alone and he seemed to be annoyed after we asked a copy of the drivers license since we prepaid a large sum.
Immediately afterward the grass, just new, looked great even though my wife noticed that for a part he used very small (left-over) patches of grass, probably so he could use the bigger pieces somewhere else even though we paid for them. He set-up the watering schema twice a day every day.
After his works the waterpressure was much stronger in the house, I mentioned that to him. He measured the waterpressure probably while the main valve was not completely opened.
Renee was supposed to come back after 2 weeks but didn't show up.
Because we have a dense clay ground here in Costa Mesa that drains poorly the watering schema caused the grass to turn into a swamp. I switched off the main valve so the grass could dry out a bit and finally Renee showed up after repeatedly texting.
I told him that I switched off the main valve. He changed the watering to 3 times a week (twice a DAY). 10 days later the grass turned yellow/dead especially in the area where he had used these very small pieces of sod, I found out that he had NOT switched the main valve back on, so after overwatering it now was bone dry.
After I texted him again and after some non-responsiveness (that seems to be normal for him) he asked for Foto's. He told me via text to use fertilize which I did and of course I switched the main valve back on.
The grass worsened and after repeated request he finally showed up one more time. This time he showed pretty aggresive behaviour, blaming me for not listening to his instructions and that this not listening caused the grass to have Brown Patch decease. He left being a rude prick and I never heard from him again.
After reading a bit more about Brown Patch, it is crystal clear to me that the watering schema was the problem, once every other day very early in the morning does wonders, with his setting the grass never dried up and the fungus took hold.
I now need to redo a substantial area of grass.
This guy is very unproffesional, agressive and has very poor communication skills. Instead of solving the problem (I was able to do it myself eventually) he became aggresive and never heard from again. read more