I heard this company to tear out and replace my driveway and to install a drainage system with a…read moregrid across the front of my three car garage going into a drywall system. After numerous sit down and phone conversations, we decided on a price for the job to be done with blacktop From the garages to the front of the house and then after a while, we decided to do brown pavers from the front of the house to the sidewalk. Additionally, to that on the one side towards the lawn, they were to put large Belgium block all the way to the sidewalk.
Giving it deposit to the owner of the company he gave us a date within the following two weeks and started approximately a week and a half after receiving the deposit. Well they were ripping out the driveway. I noticed they were having problems with there was a cement apron in front of the garages And I had to go to a tool supply and rent a chipper for them to take the blacktop off the cement. That course came out of my pocket, which should've been in the job then I noticed during the job his workers had difficulties because he was unprepared at different aspects of the job. Around the third day, I noticed my garage gates with one laying on the side of the fencing, and after a while, it became obvious obvious that they hadn't removed it which wound up, causing them to break it and rip it off. It's hinges which was totally unprofessional instead of removing the second one seeing that they broke the one they end up, breaking the second one as well.
During the course of the project, my wife and I became friendly with the crew who became frustrated at certain points because the equipment was substandard and some not sufficient to do the job that was being done. I have to say that we had some good conversations and I went along with the owner to a distributor " progressive brick" to pick out the dry wells and the type of drainage grids that would be installed. At the end of the blacktop paving there was a few days between then and the beginning of the placement of the paver stones at the frontier driveway section left, but they left equipment on the blacktop which stained the blacktop, and when we asked them about it, they were going to leave it like that and said that's just the way it ends up at the end of a job.
During the placement of the blacktop, we spoke to the owner about when would be a time to do a seal coat on it, and he was emphatic that it shouldn't happen until approximately a year from the finish date ; however, When confronted about how the driveway looked like it was months old because of the many stains on it and the dirt and grime on it immediately reversed course and seal coated the new job that he said should not be seal coated for a year.
When we got to the section with the pavers, it became very aggravating because they piled pavers all over my front lawn and destroyed most of my lawn as well as cutting the pavers on the front lawn and at one point without telling me, they tore out two sprinkler heads, which disconnected them from the system and caused me upwards of $2500 to be repaired, which became impossible and the whole system had to be replaced. While the worker that laid the paver stones down was doing the job, he had explained to my wife that that was one of the first times that he was doing the pavers and became obvious because many of the cuts that he made were ill advised after I spoke to, a company that primarily does Strictly pavers and cement.
At one point, my wife decided that she wanted to replace our walkway that goes from our steps to the main sidewalk along with a walkway that goes from the stairs to the driveway. After discussing it with the company, they quoted an additional $7000 which we wound up agreeing to. During the job, the owner continually promised the best job that couldn't be gotten anywhere else, and a guarantee for at least three years for my satisfaction of the job. After going over the finished job with our inexperienced eyes, we saw some things with the "EzSand" which is sand mixed with cement that is worked into the creases of the pavers subsequently sprayed with water that would harden and prevent the pavers from moving however, there were spaces that didn't appear to be filled, and we were assured that they wouldn't be a problem. A day after the job is finished, it rained and several areas the sand washed away, leaving large gaps, and then we noticed that a gap between the pavers and the front sidewalk of the driveway. There was never any cement filled in and the pavers started to show signs of cracks and movement.
I called the owner several times and he kept telling me that all that was natural and that was not his responsibility and he made it clear that he was not going to uphold. His guarantee was not three years, but merely three or four days. Each time I called him , he made excuses about one of his trucks breaking down, not having a crew and that one point he told me that where he didn't complete