Method Paving

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They did a very fine job!

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I think they are very responsible and fast. They basically helped me choose the pavers and briefed me on their detailed plan for paving, so basically I think that was very good. The only thing that I think they can do better is on the price as they are not the lowest paid of the ones I have asked. I would use them again in the future.

For many reasons we did not want to remove the tree or mess with cutting its roots. Nathan helped us determine the best route for the drain piping, cut out the old concrete to remove the old drain, cut a new channel for new piping, and installed the new drain. Finally, he put in new concrete where needed, and restored the landscaping that had to be cut through to its old position. Nathan was prompt, the job cost what was estimated and was quickly completed. It looks great, functions perfectly, and if I needed any other concrete work I would call Method Pavers first.

Rick was a great guy. He came in and talked with us about what we would like to see. He made some measurements and showed us many options for the types of pavers we could use. With his experience, he was also able to recommend a few style that he thought would go very nicely, because the type of paver that was currently there wasn't made anymore (it was about 20 years old). We then scheduled a time for them to come do the work. They were on time, polite, efficient, and knew what they were doing. While removing the old pavers and foundation they cracked one of the plastic pvc pipes for the landscape watering that had run just under the pavers -- this isn't unexpected and was no big deal. They were quick to turn off the water, do a solid patch on the pipe and kept right on going. They laid the new pavers and put on a sealant in the next couple days. It looks amazing, the area is flat and level and we can actually sit on our sideyard now. They did a great job and we are extremely pleased with the result.

They were really nice, responsive, and prompt. He explain to us what our options were for the two estimates he gave us. He was real thorough and friendly. It was an easy interaciton.

I was very happy with the work done and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them. Rick was very easy to work with and I never felt pressured. His crew did a very professional job. My neighbors were impressed with what a great job they did.

The owner of the company, Rick Pestana, met with me on time and gave me a quote during this first meeting. I received 3 quotes from other companies, one a little lower, and two much higher than Rick's. I chose Method Paving because Rick really knows his business, is honest, very professional, provided excellent details about the job, and gave me a good, fair price. I believe it was the best price for the exceptional quality of work provided. Rick's employees showed up on time every day and cleaned up at the end of each day. The quality of work was outstanding. When they were done they put everything back in place almost exactly as it was at the start. Awesome! One of the very best experiences I've had with a company. Highly recommended.

The job involved cutting through old pavement, re-routing existing pipe, laying new pipe, putting in a new drain with a grate strong enough to drive over, re-paving, removing and replacing dirt. They were very neat, the new drain works perfectly.

We were pretty satisfied with them. The price was a little high but we were not terribly upset with it; we just wished it could have been lower. They had given us a price quote and it wasn't a surprise.

I called them and they gave me a quote, then we set up a date for them to start the job, they came out and started on time, did the job as they said they would and finished when they said they would.

They did a good job. The job came out great! They were punctual. They cleaned up after themselves nice. The work seems to be high quality. We tried to get a landscaper to do the whole job, but they came out to be quite a bit more expensive. It was a good option for us. I think we could have found someone who was a little less expensive. They took us to one of their jobs and showed us their work. We were pretty happy with the price and quality that they offered.

They were excellent. We spent about $20,000 on that work and I was pretty pleased with the price. They showed up on time and worked really hard and it was all done within a week or less. They had good workers and the mason was the one that handled our job. He was here every morning and evening to check on the progress. We had a 40 by 15 feet wood deck that had rotted out and they put in a new paving deck and paved down the sidewalk. We will probably have them out again to do the boulevard and driveway.

I agonized over what to do with my back yard once the decks became unsafe. I live in a condo, which is hemmed in by other units, both within my complex and outside. The only access is through a neighbor's yard (a yard that was recently mulched and planted) and a good half a block from the parking lot. Once I ascertained that real rock would be outrageously expensive, I started calling pavers from a list supplied by Peninsula Building Materials Co. The callbacks were slow in coming, and the news discouraging when they did. The first bidder told me it would cost $27,000 and my neighbor would sue me before it was over; I told him not to bother commiting it to paper. Only one sounded interested and capable of doing what I wanted, but it took more than a week for him to get back to me and then he wanted to meet again, evidently to give me the hard sell. In the meantime, I was able to reach Rick Pestana, whose name was given to me by a trusted friend. Rick had been on vacation when I started the search, but finally got the message and returned the call from Hawaii. I was told he was a moonlighter from a company that didn't want to work small jobs, but since then he has started his own company, Method Paving Inc. He was at my house almost as soon as he got off the airplane (well, give or take a night). Before he left, I felt like he was a member of the family. He said all the right things (like how he trusts his guys to think things through on the job and make suggestions), drew up a sketch of what he thought would look good in my yard, proposed the materials and worked up a bid. I was eager to sign. His bid of $14,000 was comparable to all of the completed bids I had gotten earlier. Work started the following Monday. I didn't have to pace around waiting for them to show up. Within 24 hours, all the offending deck materials and bricks were gone. The Portuguese crew members were happy campers to say the least, bringing their own crockpot of food to share and joyfully muscling recalcitrant concrete piers out of the ground and into wheelbarrows. I was sad to see them leave when their job was finished. They had created two tracks through the neighbor's yard, one in each direction, and they were a foot deep before the end of the week; but they did no damage to the yard otherwise. They even dug up the plants that were likely to get run over and set them safely out of the way for replanting afterwards. The next step was digging down a few inches, laying the base of mylar, which was then covered by wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of gravel, and then pounded into place by a hydraulic device that tested everyone's muscles. Then it was time for a layer of dark sand, which was meticulously shifted from one area to another in an effort to have the surface level but ever so slightly angled away from the house. The Latino paving crew was a bit less cohesive, but also a bit quieter. A couple of the crew members obviously had outstanding skills at recalling from memory the pattern we had picked -- a much less obvious pattern than I had seen in any of the sample photos. The lead paver's work was absolute perfection. My only moment of panic was when one of the crew bosses came along after the pattern was set and changed out pavers near the edges to facilitate the process of putting the "soldiers" in place -- the pavers that outlined the edge and were eventually set in concrete. I called Rick in a panic and he was there within 10 minutes, reassuring me that the guy knew what he was doing. Luckily, the pattern is so difficult to pick out that the changes are not obvious. I quickly learned that the crew members were mostly perfectionists. One newbie whose work was subpar was quickly found out and made to painstakingly redo everything he had done wrong. I could not have detected it. The final step was putting the sand between the pavers -- wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of it again -- and after it had been given a few days to dry, Rick's business partner Nathan returned to apply a fixer in a fine spray. It made the color come out a bit more (the photos in the promotional materials are less than accurate in that regard), and removes the need to push more sand into the cracks on a regular basis. There's so much more to tell, but this is most of it. Rick's crew did a fabulous job (even though they were simultaneously working on seven jobs at various stages of completion). The end result had the neighbor ladies squealing in delight at the prospect of the parties to come. I have nothing bad to report. The next-door neighbor's yard was restored to its former glory. When another neighbor complained about the dirty parking lot, Rick came back to help wash it down himself (unfortunately, the parking lot did suffer a lot of insults in the paving process and now does not look as perfect as it used to, but ... it's just a parking lot.)