Find someone else to do your concrete work!
We hired Kentrell Robinson/Robinson Concrete a few weeks ago to pour a patio across the back of our house. I had staked and marked with paint exactly where and how it was supposed to go. First thing he and his crew did was scrape up all the markings, stakes and string and then build the forms from what they "remembered". No measurements were taken and I had told him exactly what they were. I had to complain to him twice about the form for the walkway at the end of the patio for his crew (who didn't even have a tape measure) before they got it right.
He was supposed to remove an existing piece of concrete, roughly 10'x10' and haul it off. Instead, HE BURIED IT IN MY BACK YARD under only about 4" of dirt. We had also paid him to spread some existing dirt in front of the patio and he covered it up with that.
What I ended up with is a patio that slopes toward the house so that it holds water up against my bricks and does not drain. Every time it rains we have to go sweep about an inch of water off the patio.
In addition to all that, there is concrete splattered all over the brick wall and the back door. He also shattered the glass on the back door. I priced a new window ($250) and deducted that from what we paid him but I have to remove the broken window and install the new window myself.
His crew left food wrappers, drink bottles and cigarette buts in the yard also.
He said he was coming back out to fix it all but won't actually come back to even look at it and has stopped answering my calls and texts. This entire experience has been a nightmare. read more