It's sad that I cannot give a negative score!
They are my neighbour's contractor to do final grading and landscaping. I would like to share what I experienced after they started working:
1. In order to find easy ways to finish their work for my neighbour, they invaded to my backyard; do every work on my yard; dump garbage on my yard; had a few bobcats driven on my backyard back and forth thousands of times and damaged my yard grading badly.
2. Jeff, the owner of the company, really "loves" his son! Safety turns to be not his #1concern. He took his son(most likely less than 10 years old)to my yard and neighbor's yard. Put his son on his leg and driving bobcat together. Allow his son run around the construction field and playing around with all the tools. These all happened on my yard. When I warned that this is not right. He seems doesn't care at all and claiming that he is teaching his son life skills and he got WCB all covered. My yard is not considered as his construction field, he is only allowed to work on my neighbor's yard. Kids do run around, how about if he accidentally hurt or even kill his son?
3. None of his employees and him wear face masks during this covid-19 period. They carried on most of the activities on my small yard, this makes me feel my safety is not considered and my family are exposed to risks.
4. Run away from the damages they made to our property. I battled very hard to protect our right and our property, but they still ran away from the damage they did to one downspout, even though I provided before and after photos. Jeff said that there is no camera around and I didn't catch his guy damaged it. Therefore, it is not them. He also said that there are a few other construction guys came around to check their work, might be them who damaged it. What a good excuse, not working under camera benefits them this way!! The fact is that they are the only construction guys around my house. If they say that damage is done by other construction guy, did he catch him on his camera? Luckily I spent one hour a couple of days ago to finally have Jeff put his promise to repair my grading in his email, otherwise I trust he might ran away from repairing the grading too.
In conclusion, if you want to hire a contractor, consider the safety issue, consider the potential damage he brought to your property if his son appears in your yard. May also consider that he might hurt your relationship with your neighbour. If your neighbour hired them, watch closely to avoid damages to your property. Remember to put everything on paper, if you only let him talk and promise this and that, you can be easily persuaded and he then has tons opportunity to walk away if any unlucky things happen. read more