BLUEGRASS DECORATIVE CONCRETE

Terrible. The patio sloped 18 from front to back and 7 from side to side. The center of the patio was so wavy that you could not get all of the legs on a piece of furniture to hit the ground at the same time. He did not put any base color in the concrete for the stamped border, so it came out mostly grey instead of brown. The brush finish in the middle of the patio was a mess because the broom he brought to do the finish was taped together and kept falling apart. He only brought one helper so the concrete dried too fast for the stamping to make a good impression. He smashed my existing landscape border in several spots with the concrete truck to save himself the work of transporting the concrete with the bobcat. The steps he built were unleveled and he broke the corner off of one of them with the bobcat. He was supposed to supply enough dirt to level out the ground around the patio but he only brought in one small truckload. This was not even enough dirt to pack around the edges of the patio and keep the gravel packed underneath the pad. This also left the steps well short of reaching level ground. After a couple of weeks and tons of un-returned phone calls trying to get him to come back and address these problems, I finally reached his mother at the address listed on his estimate sheet. He did call back after that and said that he would come back out and re-pour the pad so it would be level. After a few no-shows, he finally showed up with a crew. We agreed (his idea) that he would tear out the front half of the patio so that he could connect it to the original concrete and then he would just pour over the back half to bring it up to the correct level. I stood there with them while they cut the pad in half, then I went inside. I looked out the window ten minutes later and they were gone, never to return. When I reached Jason the next day, he told me that he had decided that the patio looked fine and only sloped three or four inches like it should, and he was not going to re-pour it. Keep in mind that he had already taken a saw and cut it in half. He did say that he would come back out and try to put some stain on the border to try to make that look better. I told him to come on back and we d look at the level and tape measure it together and I would show him again that it sloped 18 , not 4 . I spent the next two days waiting at home for him to show up, as he kept telling me he would be heading my way as soon as he finished this or that. He never showed and stopped taking my calls. I m pretty tight with money and pretty handy, so if there was any way to bring his work to an acceptable level I would have done it. The patio was simply unusable and an eyesore. I ended up having someone else come out and tear out all of his work and start completely over. So not only did he take my money and run, it cost me almost $1000 to clean up his mess and get back to my original starting point.