Stewart Construction and Landscaping

We hired Chad in April/May, 2016. He rarely showed up and when he did it was for a few hours at a time. After stringing us along for 5 months, providing an array of excuses for his inability to get to our home or for it taking so long, he walked off the job and won't even respond to our attempts to contact him. The state of the project: the patio is sinking on all sides, the retaining wall is not complete, the firepit is not even started, we have ½ completed flower/plant beds, many plants of poor quality and some literally dying or already dead, a number of plants left in their planters and thrown around, the beds which were not completed are now greatly overgrown with grass, and we have a ripped up yard puddling with water from vehicles and his digging up drainage and leaving holes. The screened in porch was never started. To top it off, Chad has thus far refused to return money to us that he did not earn because he did not perform the work.

1. It took almost a month for the company to complete the 'work' if you want to call it that. The work was done on a rental that I own several miles from my home. Once 'Chad' from Stewarts Construction and Landscaping came to install the drip edge and guttering the tenant later called and said the leaking continued into the house. I contacted a window installer I used from Lowes, and after he looked at the problem, informed me that rain water was continuing to seep into the foundation because of poorly seated guttering. He provided me with pictures showing cheap plastic guttering that was not seated to properly drain water away from the structure. I was forced to contact another gutter contractor and he also evaluated the guttering and pretty much gave me the same answer that the guttering was cheap and improperly seated. I tried contacting Stewart Construction and Landscaping, got the usual voice mail box, left a message, no response. Tried calling again. Mailbox full. Tried leaving a post on their fb page. No response. I will now have to pay another contractor to install new guttering. At least the drip edge apparently was properly installed. I hope others post reviews on here. I saw one review that was similar to mine with poor shoddy service on Thumbtack. I feel the company is more focused on large costly projects, and will do smaller projects like mine, but will do a very poor job of it just to make extra pocket change or something. in general this is not a good American business model.