
Homeowners Friend Services
About us
Homeowners Friend Services previously known as First Class Sealcoating provides a wide range of services for your home inside and out. Driveway paving, sealcoating, patio walkways and retaining walls, painting services, spring and fall yard clean ups, bark mulching, pressure washing just to name a few. We deliver quality work at an affordable price. Every home needs a friend, let yours be HFS LLC.
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Services we offer
Home Maintenance.
Amenities
Free Estimates
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Prompt reply to inquiry providing a quote within 2 business days. On the date promised, patched/repaired and then sealed two driveways. Reasonable rate, excellent response rate and satisfied results of work provided. Would recommend to others without hesitation.
John's estimate was slightly lower than others we received and his work was excellent. Gave him a "B" in responsiveness since he didn't call us back to schedule an appointment when he promised, and we had to call him (seems to be the standard case in Massachusetts for some reason). But, once we called and left a voicemail, he called us right back and scheduled for the next day.
John is very knowledgeable, friendly, and does excellent work. Overall, we're very happy and would use him again.
But I was surprised to see cracks were filled with same stuff I used to get at home center - not hot tar. Also, 5 square foot section was filled with loose, uncompacted asphalt - again something I could get at local home center, and implement myself - i.e. no special tools, compactors, etc. were used.
SO - price of job was some $250 more than it would have cost me in materials. I estimate it took at least 6 hours to fill cracks, put down asphalt, and apply sealer. So price was very reasonable. However, I had hoped for crack filling method that was better than what I could do. Also, fairly disappointed in repair of 5 sq ft. section - if I had done it I would have rented some kind of compactor.
After a couple of months the 5 sq ft repair is still fairly loose, and is deteriorating - probably will not make it through the winter, despite First Class's assurances that the asphalt would 'harden' in a few days. To be fair, First Class has made the offer to fix the 5 sp ft section if it becomes a problem, and I have yet to take him up on it. But I do not anticipate a repair significantly better than what is there now.
So, my observation is that First Class is an excellent option if all you are looking for is sealing with minor crack repair. Price was right, punctual, very nice sealing job. However, if there are larger cracks and/or sections that need asphalt repair, you may want to spend the extra $$
John showed up right on time on the date agreed upon and completed the work very professionally in a couple of hours.
Overall a very good job at a fair price.
I'd recommend his work to anyone around the area.
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