TARINI CEMENT CONTRACTORS

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I so wish I had looked at the reviews before I contracted this family owned untruthful company. I picked it because they did a driveway in the neighborhood that looked pretty good and I went with that being a pretty busy person and not that skilled at tradesman selection. 
The drive job itself went ok, but apparently I needed some drain work done which I had to pony up for and extend the apron at the distal end of the driveway. I hope it was all legit. I really don't know, now am wondering.
The grass they planted was real wispy and did not match the rest of my grass, but I thought, Oh well I can over seed it. Well then the trouble began. What occurred was the soil settled big time on the sides of the driveway and  the set off is so obvious at the end of the driveway that you about turn your ankle walking from one part of the yard to the other. 
 I made contact 12/14 initially about the issue via email. Multiple emails, calls etc and spoke to Tom Tarini himself on 4 occasions who said' " Oh yea we had that happen on a few jobs last year, Ill send a truck out Friday." Well Friday and no further communication ever came. I have emailed Tom and Tammy several times and nothing and today said I was going to contact the BBB. I got a nearly instant response saying they they had been out and it was not due to them it was a drainage problem! This is absolutely ludicrous. As I read other reviews, this is their modus operandi.  STAY AWAY from TARINI, plenty of other Cement companies out there.

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Anyone who sees our driveway from the street thinks it looks good but that is far from the case.  
They damaged beyond repair aluminum trim next to the garage when putting in the forms.  This could have been avoided but they were shoddy workers.  It was in their way so they just folded it back and shoved the forms in place.  Now I'm left with an impossible fix.  
There is a hump in one side of the driveway so it is not flat.  It doesn't seem to affect the water draining off of it but I expected and paid for a flat driveway.  Rolling a ball down it reveals the bump as it heavily veers north.  If you get down low and look at it from the right angle you can clearly see it.  It's poor craftsmanship.  
If you bounce a basketball on one end of the parking apron, unlike the rest of the driveway, it sounds completely hollow underneath.  There's nothing solid about it.  One of these days I'm expecting a car to drive over that edge and for it to crack right off.  
When they came to backfill the edges with dirt I specifically told them that I wanted it filled and tamped all the way to the top of the concrete.  My neighbor has an "ankle twister" edge to his driveway where it wasn't backfilled enough and settled so I wanted to avoid that.  Tom assured me it would be done properly but it wasn't.  I came home from work as they were pulling out and they had used only the bare minimum of dirt.  I was exactly what I didn't want.  I told the foreman what had been promised so he agreed to come back in a week.  During that week I tamped and spread the dirt myself so when they came back at least they had an example of what I wanted.  
The sidewalk to the house developed a huge crack.  This concrete was poured in August so it had plenty of time to cure yet about February it started to show.  By March it was completely across the sidewalk and part of the apron.  I called Tom and he came out to look at it in April.  He beat around the bush and wouldn't take blame for it.  Bad concrete, cold winter, etc. etc.  I asked him point blank if he stands behind his work and he said he did.  Then he asked me if I could "help him out", as in, would I pay for the repair.  I told him I've paid him once for the job, I'm not paying for it again.  He agreed to "make it right" and to come back later and saw cut a line, bust out from the line to the nearest joint and then repour the concrete.  Well, I waited all of 2014 and it never happened.  I did not want to give him a bad review if he stood by his word.  It's nearly November and now I get to look at my concrete crack grow this winter because Tarini did a crap job.

Although the work initially looked great, within a year the crack across the sidewalk that had prompted me to get the job done, reappeared. When I called Tarini, twice, he said he would look at it, but never came. This despite the fact that I had referred 2 of my neighbors to him before so his men were actually in the neighborhood. 

I prepared the area with a gravel base and quickly noticed the only way to properly do this correctly was to pour a concrete pad.  After calling at least 5 other contractors only two responded one wanted $1,400 to pour the pad Tom Tarini only wanted $365 since, he was doing another large job around the corner if I could wait a week.  Anytime I can save a 1k dollars I can wait 7 days. 
Tom came in formed the site up where I had compacted the gravel base that afternoon the cement truck came dumped 2 wheel barrels of cement Tom troweled the slab out.  I checked the slab for level (by the way it was perfectly level) in two days I took off the wood forms set them up by the garage Tom came by an picked them up.  Job completed everything was cleaned up and ready to go.

 The workers shwed up on time and tore out the old apron and sidewalk.  they then replaced the apron and side walk. 
Mr, Tarini was there to  oversee the work.
They also reseeded the grass that was dug up during the proces.

They were excellent, couldn't be better. I would give them the highest rating of anybody that I've used, probably because I'm an architect and I have more experience dealing with concrete guys.

Excellent.    Tarini did the work when they said they would and once they started, they worked until they finished.
   They know what they are doing

Exceeded my expectations. Mr. Tarini is simply the best.

It was a long term project.  I got the initial quote from them in the beginning of April.  Then I had them come out and take a look at some subsequent work that I had done to a structure.  They re-quoted me around the end of September.  They also looked at some old work where I had a fuel oil spilled and contamination of ground underneath the cement floor.  Their goal was to replace the dirt with the compacted gravel mixture so that there wouldn’t be any subsequent shifting of the new concrete in tying that into the foundation walls and the existing slab that wasn’t torn out.  It was a little trickier than the average simple pour.  I wanted to make sure that I had somebody with a lot of experience.  Old Mr. Tarini, his son and their crew did good work for me.  The price was right about as quoted.  The total crew including Mr. Tarini was probably eight people on the job.  They all seemed very good.  They were very knowledgeable and hardworking.  I used to build radio towers myself.  I know a little bit about these things and that is why I was so careful about the selection of the people doing the work.  There were no complications.  They worked with my schedule.  We all wanted to get things done before they started having to put antifreeze material and the cement.

The service was excellent.

It well very well! There was a part of the stairway that looked stained or discolored. He came back out to look at it and stated that it was the sealant. He said that he could remove it, but it would fade away over time. Aside from that, the stairs look really nice.

His estimate was competitive and the work was done in a very satisfactory and professional manner. The neighbors even commented that the crew kept the dust to a minimum and the street clean and open to traffic.

They did very good job.

MR. TARINI WAS PROMPT IN PROVIDING AN ESTIMATE, WHICH WAS COMPETITIVE WITH THREE OTHERS I RECEIVED (STILL EXPENSIVE). IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET TO OUR JOB, BUT WHEN THEY DID, IT WAS WELL DONE. THEY CAME BACK A DAY OR SO LATER TO FILL IN DIRT ON THE SIDES AND TO PLANT GRASS SEED.

COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES VERY PROFESSIONAL AND POLITE. COMPLETED THE WORK IN ONE DAY. THEY PAID A LOT OF ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS, DOING A NEAT JOB.

EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE. FINISHED JOB SURPASSED EXPECTATIONS.

MR. TARINI'S CREWS WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL. SOME FURTHER CLEAN UP WAS NEEDED AFTER THE JOB WAS FINISHED, AND HE RESPONDED PROMPTLY TO TAKE CARE OF THIS.

THE WORK WAS DONE IN DEC 1999. MR TARINI ASSURED ME THAT THE COLD WEATHER WOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM. IT CRACKED. HE SAID HE WOULD BE OUT TO FIX IT AND HE HAS NOT DONE SO. I REPORTED HIM TO ANGIES LIST ON NOV 10TH THIS YEAR. AND HE PROMISED ANGIES LIST HE WOULD BE OUT ANS STILL HAS NEVER COME TO FIX THE CRACK

THEY DID NOT GET A PERMIT WITH THE CITY AND THEY KILLED A TREE AND DID NOT DO ANY OF THE CONCERNS I HAD