Our experience with Patios and More was awful. Owner Mike Cordes is totally untrustworthy. He arrogantly disregards requests from both his customers and his colleagues.
We signed a $20K contract in October 2024 for a retaining wall and a flagstone path and patio. The project was to be finished in May 2025.
Spring arrived, but we got no response to our texted questions about a work schedule. In June we offered to release Mike from the contract. No response. Not until July did boulders and flagstone arrive, and then they sat for over 2 weeks at the top of our driveway (in front of the garage door, blocking our home EV charging station).
Mike asked for and got our permission to hand over the project to another contractor, who was to be paid out of the contract balance owed Patios and More. The new contractor, AJ Schultz, communicated and followed through, took pride in his work, and cared about us.
Patios and More exploited him, we feel--They underpaid AJ and had ordered insufficient flagstones and black dirt to complete the project. And ground cover, part of the contact, was ignored.
AJ finished up in mid-August. We lost the summer growing season. And we ourselves paid for additional flagstone needed to complete the project and laid it ourselves. We also purchased and sowed ground cover.
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