EARLY'S CONCRETE CO INC

THE WORK WAS DONE IN OCTOBER 2008/2009. WE HAD HIM DO A STAMPED CONCRETE IN BLACK AND RED. THE SAMPLE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL. SO DID THE WORK HE DID UNTIL TWO MONTHS LATER. DECEMBER CAME WITH WINTER AND IT STARTED TO FALL APART AT THE APRON (END OF DRIVEWAY). THEN IT WORKED ITS WAY UP TOWARDS THE GARAGE. WE CALLED HIM RIGHT AWAY AND HE SAID HE WOULD BE OUT. HE CAME OUT AND SAID "GEE, THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED." HE SAID HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT IN THE SPRING. ASK HOW HE WOULD FIX IT. AND HE SAID HE WOULD TRY A COUPLE OF THINGS, BUT IF HE HAD TO HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT AND START ALL OVER. SPRING CAME AND HE CAME OUT AFTER WE CALLED AND REMINDED HIM OF OUR PROBLEM. HE RESEALED THE DRIVE. YOU CANNOT FILL IN HOLES, CRACKS, OR CHIPS WITH A SEALER. BY THIS TIME WE HAD SEVERAL CRACKS AND ALOT MORE CHIPS AND HOLES. ONE OF THE CRACKS WENT FROM THE EAST SIDE TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE DRIVE. THIS IS A THREE CAR WIDE DRIVE. HE DID NOT REPAIR ANY OF THE CRACKS, CHIPS OR HOLES. NOW WE HAVE A NEWLY SEALED RED AND BLACK DRIVE, WITH PINK HOLES AND CHIPS WHERE THE CONCRETE BROKE OUT, AND DID NOT HAVE THE BLACK POWDER ON IT. CALLED AGAIN, CALLED AGAIN. THIS WENT ON FOR AWHILE. FINALLY HE CAME OUT AND TORE OUT THE APRON (END OF DRIVE) AND REPLACED IT. HE SAID HE COULD NOT REPLACE THE WHOLE DRIVE. HE HAD NO MONEY. WE TRIED TO TELL HIM IT WAS BAD CONCRETE. IT WAS IN THE PAPERS ABOUT A LOT OF CONCRETE HAULERS HAD A LOT OF BAD CONCRETE AND THEY WOULD MAKE IT GOOD. NOTHING ELSE HAS BEEN DONE. WE GOT AN ATTORNEY, BUT EARLY FILED BANKRUPCTY. SO ALL WE GOT WAS A BAD DRIVE ALOT OF UNKEPT PROMISIES AND HE GOT $13,000.00 IN HIS POCKET. THE ONLY GOOD THING THAT WE CAN SAY IS THE APRON PART THAT HE DUG UP AND REPLACED HAS HELD UP BEAUTIFUL. IT HAS NO CRACKS, HOLES, OR CHIPS. WE THINK THIS WAS GOOD CONCRETE. OF COURSE THIS WAS THE SMALLEST PART OF THE DRIVE. SO NOW WE HAVE A LARGE DRIVEWAY THAT IS MESSED UP AND WE CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE IT RE-DONE. WHAT A SHAME IT WAS NOT DONE RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT REALLY DID LOOK BEAUTIFUL FOR TWO MONTHS. WE DO KNOW OF A COUPLE OTHER JOBS IN OUR AREA THAT WAS DONE BY THE SAME CONTRACTOR THAT HAS SOME OF THE SAME PROBLEMS.