VIP Evergreen & Small Tree Trimming

The landscaper used to take care of my trees. He is very good and okay with the trees. He needs to stay with trees. However, he also told me that he could take care of the drainage problem. He got his nephew to put in concrete. I don’t have any complaints about the concrete, but I had a problem with the wall. He has someone who doesn’t know how to install a retaining wall. I had to stop them from putting a wall up crooked. It still went up crooked. It was not straight. He didn’t put it up right and he didn’t put the rocks. He was just laying the medium sized building blocks straight on and he didn’t level out the ground. I made him pull out the wall since it was crooked and supposedly flatten the ground. I had to rip out whatever he did other than the trees. He does snow removal, landscaping and hauling. He should not be doing anything other than putting grass down and trimming trees as well as evergreens, but don’t expect him to do brick work, stone work or French drains. The French drain that he had installed was too shallow and wasn’t deep enough. It wasn’t straight too. It had an uphill. It never worked. I had excessive flooding even though he did say that he took care of the drainage. I have drainage problems since I am on the side of a hill. He took out a root. He said that he would do something about taking out the tree roots on my property where trees have been cut down, but he didn’t do it. He said that he forgot about it. I had to put in fill dirt because I have a slope and I was filling that in to level the yard. He didn’t do that. I now have a very good company and they are excellent. I had to take down a patio wall because it had sunk and a tree had broken it down away from the foundation of the house. It was damaging the roof too. It was right in the corner and much close to the house. I had to take that out since the damage was getting excessive. The patio wall had been damaged since the tree roots had broken it away from the foundation of the house. The bricks were coming down since the branches were pulling the bricks out. He said that he would restore the wall the way I wanted it. The patio is very nice with everything else. He hired a person who didn’t know how to do it. I was complaining about the wall from the second row of bricks all together. It was very messy. There were pieces of concrete that were hanging out and it was all over the bricks but he kept saying that he would scrub that out so that I wouldn’t even notice. However, I had a problem with another structure that I had to build in another house by a different person, but someone who didn’t know what they were doing. I had known someone who Efren and his wife had become very good friends with. That person did a lot of stone work since he loved to do stone work, brick work and other stuff. He also told me that the structure was very sloppy and it had damaged the bricks. He told that it was unacceptable and he knocked it down.

The work itself was not badly done. However, it took three weeks to do a three day job. They frequently didn't show. They left garbage behind in the yard. They left a huge junky dumpster in my driveway for more than a week, when the proprietor said it would only be a day or so. He insisted being on paid with a check made out to him personally, rather than to the company, which makes me suspicious about tax issues. He was pushy and aggressive about trying to talk me into agreeing to more work.