RICHARD LANEY LANDSCAPING

Richard Laney Landscaping is the real deal. Richard and his team contracted with us to put a firepit, patio and retaining wall in place. A job that I had hired out to a previous contractor, who totally botched the job. Richard came to the table with some ideas, worked with us on the overall vision and quickly brought it all together. I believe the whole job only took him ten days. The final result is beautiful and my wife and I could not be more happy. Initially I thought the quote was a little high, but the end result was worth every cent. I highly recommend working with Richard and his team, they quality and craftsmanship is outstanding.

Great just need to step up there clean up part other then that everything else was prefect.

The came in removed 3-5 trees they were great. they did not make a mess.

Very punctual and professional and the work was done on time and as promised. We are getting a lot of complements from our neighbors.

We had what I would consider to be a tricky resloping project. Richard did a great job and we are very satisfied. Will definitely hire again.

He did a very good job. They do what they say they are gonna do..

Went great it was fantastic this is the second time Iv'e hired them.

It went excellent! Couldn't be any better.

I would possibly use them again.

I would never recommend this guy.  First he was referred to us and I can't believe he could ever be referred to anyone.  We went into this project with the best of intentions and negotiated a fair contract value.  The job to be done was to create a custome landing and a 430 sq. ft. paver patio.  The patio came in under by 40-45 sq.ft. and the customer landing was a complete mess!
He told us he personally constructed the landing and steps, however he cut wet wood, left all the stampings on the porch face up and actually placed a piece of wood that was completely cracked and chipped as a bottom rail to the landing railing.  Nothing was flush and you could tell the guy shouldn't have been building this custom job.  Also, there were cracks and discrepencies with the leveling of the pavers...4 days after they put in the patio.
We approached Richard about the discrepencies and reviewed what went wrong.  He got extremely heated and defamatory.  He used the "F" word over and over, called me a derogatory  name and walked off the job.  I would never use this guy again and would caution anyone on here to do business with him.  He comes across as a nice guy, but check his work.  He will tell you one thing and do another. 

Mr. Laney called from the nursery on the day the work was to be performed to advise that the nursery was out of the 15 gallon Crepe Myrtles which I had wanted.  He was able to provide two 7 gallon Crepe Myrtles for which the quoted price would be adjusted.  He arrived with the trees and bushes with two men (one was his son)  and they started digging holes for the trees.  I asked why he didn't have top soil.  He ran out and purchased some.  I assumed they would be extending the existing shrub bed,  Instead they dug individual holes for the plantings.  He advised the weed barrier would stop the existing bermuda grass from breaking through the landscaping rocks.  The grass was sprayed with roundup which I supplied.  He left after dropping off the top soil to see another customer, leaving the workers to finish the job. They left with my weed barrier along with the roll they had provided. I was disappointed with the size of the trees but he said they would grow quickly to reach the size I had originally requested (which they did).  The knockouot rose bush was as small as a bouquet but the azaela bush was adequate size (however it did not have the same leaves as my other azaela bush already in the existing shrub bed.)  They also just placed the edging stone on the grass instead of digging them into the ground a little as was done with the existing shrub bed (which they were extending)  A few days later I called to ask if he could come back and fix one of the trees which was leaning backwards.  My husband had put a stake in the ground to pull the tree forward but it wasn't done professionally with the proper materials.  He said he would stop by..... but never did.  I called again and by that time the azaela had bloomed and it was not the color flower I had requested.  (I had requested pale pink but he provided a dark  pink).  I asked him to come out and look at it, giving him the benefit of the doubt that prehaps the nursery had given him the wrong color azaela.  He said he had forgotten to come out but would be by during the week.  He has never shown up, to my knowledge as the tree looks exactly the same as when my husband staked it and he never addressed the wrong color azaela.  I work during the day so if he stopped by, I wouldn't have known unless he would have left me a note or corrected the tree.  The Bermuda Grass (which stops at nothing and the weed barrier was useless) or weeds are growing through the barrier and it looks terrible. All the grass should have been removed.  About a month after the work was done I saw the 15 gallon Crepe Myrtles at Home Depot for the same price I paid for the 7 gallon trees.  Home Depot had huge knockout roses for the same price I had paid for the bouquet sized bush.  Home Depot would guarantee the trees/bushes for a year.  When I asked what was the quarantee he asked if I had a sprinkler system.  When I advised that I had sprinklers, he told me he would guarantee the trees/bushes for six months.

Richard, the owner, was always on time with his team. We provided most of the materials and the pricing for the work was reasonable. They completed the job in 4 days and it looks amazing.

GAVE ME TIPS AND IDEAS FOR LANDSCAPING, CAME EARLY

THEY DID WELL ON THE PLACING OF TWO OF THE DRAINAGE PIPES, BUT NOT THE THIRD. REALLY MESSED UP WITH LAWN SUGGESTIONS ON THE OVER SEEDING.

DID FINE GRADING (AERATING), SEEDING AND FERTILIZING. WAS PLEASED WITH THIS COMPANY.