JDG Demolition & Hauling Inc.

Slow, extremely slow. Jackie was quick to respond and send a contractor, saying he was a "very nice kid." Kid he was but the problem was not his age but his lack of experience/knowledge and not having any tools for the job. His business card reads, "B & R Landscaping" The job was a yard clean up of garden and gardening materials. He came, looked, went home to "get the equipment (he) needed." He returned with his friend. He was so ill equipped, he had six plastic bags, manual, long handled hedge clippers and only one pair of work gloves. No lawn mower, no rake, no power hedge cutter. Instead of raking the loose debris (plants and straw) first, he kept bending over to pull and pick the plants and just dropped them where he pulled them. They worked for one hour, ran out of bags and it took both of them to go buy more plastic bags. This "kid" lives in Chicago and does yard and lawn work but doesn't know that there is a law saying that all yard debris has to be put into special paper bags. When they returned (yes, it took two young men to buy bags) he brought his girlfriend with him and they proceeded to take a full hour break. They worked for another hour, packed some of the full bags and some other debris into his fancy hatch bed truck and went to have another break and decided not to return because it was "taking too long." Their excuse was that I had not told them how much work was really there even though this guy had looked over the yard PRIOR to starting but had to go home to "get the proper equipment." (Uh, lawnmower, rakes, shovel, maybe hand clippers.....) Jackie refused to find me another contractor to complete the job. In looking back, an experienced, healthy person would have only taken one to two hours to complete the job. Two healthy people would have had the yard SPOTLESS in that length of time. Although Jackie refused payment (I'm NOT comfortable with that), I could not recommended JDG nor B&R. The pictures show the yard prior to any work. Make your own decision.