
Steeleman's Lawn & Landscapes
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25 years in Landscape Design, Maintenance, Mowing, Mulching, Yard Clean-Up, Bobcat Work, & MORE. No job too big no job too small give the Steeleman a call! Steeleman's provides a comprehensive approach to maintaining the beauty of your property. Increase your curb appeal and property value with professional property maintenance services. Call to set up your appointment today!
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Services we offer
Mowing, aeration overation overseeding, clean ups, shrub trimming & landscaping.
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This summer there were several issues:
1) The yard has been cut unevenly; with swatches of grass long and then short continually all summer
My husband happened to be home on one occasion and had to have them go over the lawn again it was that uneven
2) The grass wasn?t cut the week of September 21, September 28 and was finally cut on Friday, October 9, 2015
3) The west post on the deck staircase had been damaged and the lowest board of the steps has a gouge in it
4) The damage was reported to the crew, specifically to the owner's son by my husband shortly after we discovered the damage in July, 2015. No response from Tom.
When I approached Tom Steeleman about this issues, I was given a lot of excuses and bad attitude:
?I was out there and the yard looked good?; ?The guys like to drive fast, I?ll tell them to slow down?; ?You should have contacted me sooner?; ?We?ve been busier than we ever have?; ?You?re hitting me with this on a Friday at 5:00 p.m.?; ?We were behind?; ?I would be more pleasant but I haven?t eaten all day, it?s 5:30 p.m. on a Friday?; ?I?m not coming out there, I?m going to my cabin this weekend?, and so forth.
Regarding the uneven grass, I let several weeks go by to allow for a natural correction by the team. When that didn?t happen, I called Tom to let him know. I didn?t demand that the crew come back out and cut it again nor did I ask for a refund for that week. I wasn't offered either remedy by Tom and he never suggested coming out to look at the yard. And to my knowledge he didn't follow up and do that. The grass was cut unevenly on a regular basis over the rest of the summer, but by that point, I was done reporting the issue.
There was rain the week of September 21, 2015. Our usual cut day is Monday or Tuesday, and it rained both days. I didn?t report the missed cut that week due to the rain. I assumed we would be cut the following week. The grass didn?t get cut the following week. Every day I came home, I was anticipating the cut and allowed time for that to happen. I contacted Tom on Friday, October 2, 2015, after I got home from work, to report the missed weeks. During the conversation he tried to blame me for not calling him sooner to report our grass wasn?t cut. He was fairly disbelieving about the deck damage. I asked him to come out and look at the yard and deck, and that's when he got snarly saying, "I'm not doing that, I'm going to my cabin, I'll deal with this on Monday after I talk to my guys." Because of his attitude, I didn't have a chance to tell him I didn't mean to come out and look 'right this minute'. I never heard from him on Monday, October 5, 2015.
I left a voice mail for him on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at approximately 6:30 p.m. to report the grass still wasn?t cut and never heard from him. The grass was finally cut on Friday, October 9, 2015. I?m not sure if it was cut the week of October 12, 2015, because the pattern in the grass was the same as it was on Friday, October 9, 2015. The cut on Friday, October 9, 2015, was not good; uneven and missed patches of grass so the yard was long and short.
On Friday, October 16, 2015, Tom called my cell phone at approximately 7:50 a.m. and left a voice mail, saying he was at my house and wanted to walk the yard with me and asked when a good time to do that would be. I returned the call at
approximately 8:10 a.m. and suggested meeting that day at 4:00 p.m. Tom said, ?I?m trying to get out of town to
go to my cabin around 2pm. I?ve worked 21 days straight and when I have a free weekend I?m going to take it.? He suggested calling me later in the day and possibly meeting around 4-4pm if he didn?t leave town. I suggested we push the meeting to Monday, October 19, 2015 @ 7:30 a.m.
Note: This was the first I had heard from Tom since I reported the issues with the yard cutting and deck post damage to him on October 1, 2015.
We met at approximately 7:45 a.m. at my home and we walked to the back of the yard. I commented
that the yard wasn?t cut the week before which he denied, saying he was there on Friday. I stated the grass is
very long and the cut pattern was the same as the last time it was cut. Tom dismissed any challenge to the grass not
being cut by stating the weather had been hot and it was growing fast.
Tom admitted that the crew missed one week of mowing due to arriving at the house and having a downpour rain start. The crew then forgot to come back.
We looked at the desk post and lower stair board. Tom aid, ?I talked to my guys and they said nothing happened, I don?t know what to say about that.? I commented that the mower might have bumped it and he said, ?My 900 pound machine would do more damage than that?. So I am stuck fixing and paying for damage that I believe occurred due to his crew?s negligence. However, because I didn?t ?see? anything happen, Tom is denying responsibility. We don't have kids or animals and the lawn crew were the only people to come into the yard. The damage to the deck was high (deck post looked like it had been slapped or slashed with something, leaving many marks) and low (lowest step had a gouge chipped out of it about the size of a 50 cent piece)
I told Tom I wasn?t paying for services for October, 2015, because I was owed 2 weeks mowing from the end of September, 2015:
Week of September 21: no mow
Week of September 28: no mow
Week of October 5: grass finally mowed on Friday, October 9
Week of October 12: Idisputed the grass was cut, Tom said it was and made a point of saying I owed
for October mowing. Even if it the yard was cut the week of October 12, that would cover the 2 missed weeks for
September. It certainly didn't reflect that I owed for any services.
I let Tom know that I was not paying for October, I was ending services and would not be scheduling a fall clean-up as we are done with your services.
It's very unfortunate because generally speaking, the crew did a good job. I've had to make calls in past years about not getting mowed and Tom has had the same general attitude - he gets defensive and makes excuses.
I don't know if he was deliberately trying to get rid of me as a customer or not, because I find it hard to believe no one else on Angie's List has had this type of interaction with him.
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