Three years ago, I did give a 5-star rating, as he did work for me in 2023 on our concrete and slate stairs, and then did a fairly decent job.
Now not so much. The concrete was in need of repair.
Not only did I rehire him, but in a lapse of judgment, I paid him before he did the work, based on his previous work ($1800), to repair the stairs.
The work this go-round was terrible. As most people enter the house through the side or back door, I saw pictures of the stairs 6 weeks after he was done in 2026 and could compare them to the repatch pictures he sent me.
I sent him pics of the stairs with cracks in his patchwork 6/18./26.
He said he would get to it "end of next week". He actually repatched stairs 7/12 /26.
The overall redo job was so terrible that I have hired someone else to try to start over, beginning with undoing his work .
Lesson learned . read more