Carolina Construction and paving

After months of excuses, they won't come do the job or refund the deposit.

Poorly. Daryl Campbell, owner / operator, had done an excellent job for me previously. So, I asked him to do this other job with every confidence that it would go as well. Daryl came out (on time) and discussed the project. He presented me with a simple contract a few days later. I gave him a deposit of slightly more than 1/2 the agreed upon price. After that I heard from him sporadically. He kept moving the start date. Materials were delivered to my home and sat there for about 10 days with no word from Daryl. His sub (excellent carpenter) showed up to start the job, only to discover that the materials had not been paid for and the lumber company was on its way to collect them. After several texts and phone messages assuring me that everything would be worked out, I agreed to meet Daryl at my home today at 9:00. It is now 10:00 and I have not seen nor heard from him. Daryl presents very well. He is well spoken and knowledgeable. He quickly envisioned the project I had in mind and made excellent suggestions that I hadn't thought of. The first job had gone so well, I didn't hesitate to hire him again. Lesson learned. I would recommend NOT doing business with Daryl Campbell of Carolina Construction and Paving after this experience.

The B-mix started to break down in 8 weeks and we called Daryl Campbell owner and told him the driveway where he put down this mix was not holding up and it was breaking down. He tried to sell us a "seal" and said that would help. We had another Paving contractor look at it and he said that the B-mix was either faulty or it was not put down properly as it never bonded correctly. We emailed and called Daryl and it took him until DEC 2015 to respond to our emails. We have it in writing that he "promised" he would repair the driveway in the spring of 2016. We started to call and email and text him in March 2016 to come look at the driveway and he promised and never showed up. This went on all summer - promised and lies. Now it is SEPT 2016 and our driveway is worse. DO NOT HIRE THIS COMPANY. THE OWNER IS A BAD NEWS AND WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY.

The original work last summer was completed fairly quickly, but the cracks were not properly sealed, so every time it rained a few cracks showed up white from salt laid down in prior winters. Rather than scrape out a deep crack and fill it with gravel + asphalt, they came back 3 times to add tar. This year the crack filling held, but the surfacing has rubbed off or been washed off by heavy rain. Surprisingly the wear was in LOW traffic areas and not where we park or commonly drive. WORST OF ALL, THEY WILL NOT CALL ME BACK OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WARRANTY REPAIR IS NOW DUE!!!! :(

Daryl came out and gave me a quote for repaving and sealing my driveway. He said that if I paid for the 5 year seal he would guarantee the driveway for 5 years. That was in November 2013. He arrived when he said he would, tore up the old driveway and repaved using B type asphalt. By April of 2014 the driveway was starting to fail. Although the job called for putting down 4 inches of asphalt which would compress to 3 inches, the underlying stone was coming through the top of the paving, In other places the driveway was crumbling and cracking. About 90% of the driveway was breaking up and needed to be replaced. I called Daryl in April and told him what was happening and what I got was excuses. First he couldn't afford to repair the drive and then he had too much work and would get to it as soon as he could. He finally came out in November of 2014 and cut out a few places and up putty over other areas. The areas he cut out he replaced with A type Asphalt. This is considerably finer and not appropriate for my steep drive plus it looked terrible with patches all over the place.

Given this experience, I asked him to sign another contract that said once I notified him of a problem he had one month to fix it or I had the right to have someone else fix the drive. He signed it and I felt much more at ease. At the time of this signing and his patching the asphalt producers were closed so we agreed that he would come out April 3, 2016 to complete the repairs. That date came and went. When I called him about the repair he said that the asphalt companies weren't making the asphalt yet however when I called they said they were making Type B but not type A. He patched with type a which did not match my drive which was type B. He also told me that in order for the asphalt to stick, it needed at least an inch of depth. The patches he put in the previous year were not only the wrong type of asphalt, they weren't even with the rest of the driveway and they weren't the necessary 1 inch lower so that the new asphalt would stay in place.

I asked him if he was planning on doing 3/4 of the driveway in one asphalt and 1/4 in another type but got no answer. When he said that he was waiting for the asphalt companies to start producing asphalt, he meant they were not yet producing the wrong kind of asphalt for my drive and I would be left with a driveway that was supposed to be new but would instead be 3/4 one type of asphalt, 1/4 another type of asphalt and all of it uneven.

This man is a con man and I would advise anyone to have nothing to do with him. He does not fulfill his contracts but is happy to take the money for it.

Avoid this company like the plague!!!!!!!

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I have a long, sloping driveway, one-half paved and one-half gravel. Where the two meet, the gravel would quickly wear thin, making it bumpy for cars to go over. The company told me that by adding approximately a three-foot strip of paving on the upslope, that things would smooth out. They didn't. They needed to extend the paving farther to a flat part of the driveway, so it would blend better with the gravel.
When I called and tried to explain this to them, the company refused to return my calls or rectify their work.

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Firstly they did an awful job then when we disputed the Credit Card Charges...Daryl Campbell came out and supposedly fixed the problem...Asking to be paid in cash...Naively we did and we are left with still a BAD patching job and neither his office OR his cell will answer 5 calls we made to them in one hour!!!
PLEASE save yourself $$$ and aggravation by using another company!
Celine Lurey
Asheville, N.C. 28804

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Darrel came out on promptly and when he said to give me and estimate. The estimate seemed reasonable and so we scheduled for the work. He kept me appraised of the weather and how it was affecting the schedule and started as soon as the weather allowed. The driveway came out beautiful- a very professional job. He even took out a lump in the drive that was obscuring our vision as we drove up the drive. The sealing was done after the drive had cured and only added to the beauty of the work he had already done.

I would highly recommend him to anyone. He also does plowing during the winter and I've already talked to him about doing that for me too.

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Nothing but good things to say about him and his business. I still may hire him to do some work around my home.