HERB GEDDES FENCE CO INC

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The issues I had, in no particular order:
1. Punctuality and professionalism -- This should have been a 3-4 day job, but quickly turned into a three WEEK job. Communication was dismal; the worst communication I've ever experienced with a hired contractor in 20 years.
2. Price. They were more expensive than the competition, even though they were slow, had poor communication, and used lower quality materials. I hired them on the recommendation of a (regretful) friend.
3. Subcontracting. The owner explained to me that many of the communication and scheduling problems I experienced were due to their wood fence installer being a subcontractor. The resultant lack of accountability was obvious.
Start to finish, working with this company was a stressful, expensive, mess.

Not good!   We had a written contract for black bonded vinyl chain link. We received extruded ... in other words it can be peeled right off of the wire.  The posts look good except the main one is not perfectly vertical ... guess they didn't use a level on it.
The gate was a disaster and we voided our contract with this company ... they kept our $700 downpayment which means we paid $700 for 4 old posts removed and 4 new ones put in.  The extruded chain link will have to be replaced by another company.
We rejected the driveway gate when it arrived because:  the vinyl on both vertical members was all bubbled up, the top horizontal member had a big line of brown paint on it, the lower horizontal member had a big scratch down to the metal.  I called the company from which they got the gate and was told that it sounds like the black vinyl did not bond to the structural pipe.
When I went to talk to Mr Geddes he did agree to let us void our contract with his company but he said to me "It's just a gate".
Just a gate to him but a total of $1500 to us if we had the abysmal gate installed.