M.E.B. Lawn And Landscape

Review For A Boulder Wall With Stairs & Paver Patio I hired Chris at MEB Landscaping to build a two-layer eight-foot-high boulder retaining wall in my back yard. I loved the idea of boulders and having something different than the typical railroad ties and suburban block walls. Although he couldn’t show me much in the way of previous work he had done, his talk was smooth and he won me over. I handed him a check for ten thousand. The boulders themselves looked fantastic, but the stone slab staircase he built in the middle of it looked terrible. The rise and run for each step varied greatly and were far too small, making them almost impossible to walk on. I pleaded to have them redone, and even after they agreed, it was still horrible. (Photos below.) And because they weren't properly set and stabilized, many started cracking and breaking after only a few months. Huge disappointment. But the real issue came when I inexplicably decided to pay another two grand for them to build my paver patio. They initially built it the wrong size and had to redo it. Then the brick cuts along the curved corners were absolutely atrocious, and as their supposed “satisfaction guarantee” implied, they finally agreed to redo it for a second time, albeit with attitudes growing slightly more cocky and condescending as the project days passed. The photos below show what photos of what the “new and improved” patio looked like. Use your imagination to extrapolate how bad the originals must have been. So not only did the patio turn out as ugly as ****, but to top it all off, they ran out of the polymeric sand – the stuff that’s used to finish and lock-in patio pavers – and simply bailed without any communication. They left me with patio unfished, cut brick shards all over the yard, and a garbage pile that had been accumulating the whole project. They never came back. Never fixed the mistakes. Never even finished the initial job. Chris and somehow the entire company (do they have a blacklist?) started ignoring my phone calls and voicemails. Twelve grand spent, and Chris just ghosted me. I absolutely recommend staying AWAY from this company. Sub-par craftsmanship, and sub-par people. Oh, I forgot to mention. During the patio build they decided to skip calling the city to get the buried utility locates, and ended up severing the house’s cable supply line, killing my internet, and didn’t call the cable company for repairs or even let me now that it had happened. I eventually went outside and discovered it for myself, the black hard plastic burial tubing jutting up from the earth. The quality was crappy. But the way they treated me was criminal. Seriously. Stay away.