Jerry Hunter Concrete

Jerry Hunter Concrete poured 1,200 square feet of concrete for a new addition to the house. The slab was level and rectangular...so an extremely easy job for any seasoned concrete contractor. There was only one must have requirement for the job. 160 square feet of the job was to have a textured treatment. Now, this type of treatment is super-simple. In fact, I have done it myself a couple of times. The textured treatment was a rock salt treatment. Here is how it works: Once you smoothed out the concrete, but while it is still wet, you take run-of-the-mill ice cream rock salt and throw onto the wet concrete surface. The rock salt embeds itself into the top layer of the wet concrete and sinks in a bit. You wait for the concrete to set up, and then hose off the slab (maybe a day later) which disolves the rock salt. What is left is a pitted surface that creates an interesting look once the concrete is stained. Jerry Hunter does not show up the job with any rock salt ($5 at Wal-Mart). He acts as if he was never aware of this job requirement. I run to Wal-Mart and buy $5 worth of rock salt. Meanwhile my builder arrives with a sack full of rock salt himself. About every 30 minutes I remind his crew that we need to throw rock salt out onto the slab before it sets up. Each time I am told they have it under control. Eventually I begin to protest that I think that time is slipping away from them and we need to get on it. They respond that they have it under control. Finally I say, "let me just do it". Nope, they have it under control. Then, to my surprise, they are gathering up their equipment and preparing to head off. I say, "what about the rock salt treatment"?. Jerry's response is that it is too late now, the slab is already hard. Clearly I am not happy. The following day they return to haul off their machinary and I ask them what they plan to do about the problem. Half of the crew says they didn't know anything about it, and Jerry now claims that they never do rock salt. Apparently they use some sort of heavy roller and pea-size gravel to make that sort of treatment. Which of course makes no sense at all because that would leave behind small pieces of gravel in my concrete slab forever. Either way, he should have said that out the beginning of the pour when I mentioned the rock salt treatment. This company talks a big game about the number of years in the business, but could not execute on the simplist of tasks. Look elsewhere.