Perkins Lawn & Landscaping
About us
Weekly lawn maintenance, mulching, edging, weeding, fertilizing, seeding, sodding, aerations, bush trimming, pruning, tree removal, leaf removal, gutters, snow plowing/removing & seasonal clean up.
Services we offer
Weekly lawn maintenance, aerations, bush trimming, edging, fertilizing, gutters, leaf removal, mulching, pruning, seeding, snow plowing/removing & seasonal clean up., sodding, tree removal, weeding
Amenities
Free Estimates
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Shawn came out to the house after work on April 14th and walked around our property with me to get specifics on what we needed to be done. I was happy with this. He stated he had a four person crew and told me their hourly labor rate. Within a day, Shawn provided an estimate of $605 ($540 labor and $75 haul-away). He said he would get the work done within a week to 10 days.
After several delays, he and his crew (three total, not four) showed up on Friday, 1 May at about 4:30pm. They worked for about 3 hours and started packing up their equipment. The total actual man-hours of work done was half of that bid. So his estimate was off by 100%. Basically, we paid twice what we should have for the labor that was performed.
At about 7:30, Shawn said they were done and the guys were cleaning up, so he handed me the bill. As I was handing him the check, I noticed that they did not cut the pine stump as requested. He apologized and spent about 10 minutes with a chainsaw cutting the stump. By the time they loaded that onto the trailer is was nearly dusk, so I only had time to look at the work done on the bushes around the house. As they were leaving, Shawn said to call if there was anything we weren't happy with.
The next morning, I went to the back of the property and noticed that one large honeysuckle was not cut down and a pile of debris was left behind. I also noticed that some work in the flower beds was missed (trimming back some Asian Jasmine). We contact Shawn via text and he said he would get "right out to take care of it". That was on May 2nd. Despite repeated promises to get out here to take care of the job (including this past weekend), he still has not done so. I will take care of it myself now because I am tired of waiting.
All in all, I believe we paid too much to get too little and it was done too late.
I work from home and cannot have any noise like a lawn mower after 4:00 PM. i told Shawn that must always be done by 4:99 PM. They showed up the next time while I was on a call, scalped a strip of the front lawn and did not trim well.
On their last visit they left a large area untrimmed for the second time.and the back desk had not been blown off. I was not happy and let them know. Rather than letting know he did not want to mow for me any longer , he just never came back. When he finally returned my call he quit because I had a complaint.and hung up on him. I said a rather brusk good by but did not hang up unless my cell phone cut out
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Perkins will do a good job as long as you have no special requirements and your job is just mowing. Don't expect things like the decks being blown off. Shawn said they only blow off areas where they leave grass from the mowing.
I've been using them for three years. They do a very good job and they are reasonably priced. They do a better job mowing than I do.
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