Preferred Outdoor Designs

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Scott was great to work with and designed a beautiful paver patio with a seating wall and front and back landscaping that took our house from "builder grade" to really feeling like our space. The stone edging wall around the front landscaping really sets the house off nicely. His crew got the job done faster than we expected and were very professional. I would recommend Preferred Landscapes to anyone looking for a local company with unbeatable experience and design expertise.

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March 2, 2015 I met Scott Woodward of Preferred Outdoor Design last year, 2014, at the Home, Garden and Remodeling Show. I was in need of a complete redo/makeover of my landscaping which involved saving only my 16-year-old birch tree that shades my two kitchen windows. Of the several designs, layouts, bids etc. I collected from the Home and Garden Show, I selected the one from Preferred Outdoor Design. Scott Woodward took my landscaping area and treated it as though it were a canvas; he painted the picture with a variety of shrubs, plants, trees, perennials, annuals, and even two large boulders that went under my birch tree. In his selections, he was mindful of size, color, textures, and seasons which were all blended well. The border he selected for the landscaping, which I was not sure of in the beginning, ended up framing the landscaping like a picture. And at night, the landscape lighing he added just makes the picture moe beautiful. Scott Woodward and the men who worked with him were all very professional. They were at my home for about six days, and at the end of each day the work area was picked up and left as clean an neat as possible. All questions and requests were handled in a positive manner. He had the proper equipment to work with in order to do a professional job. At this particular time all plants, shrubs, and trees seem to be "wintering" well. I would certainly recommend to anyone who is thinking of new landscaping, landscape lighting, border, etc. to put Scott Woodard of Preferred Outdoor Designs on their list as a definite talk to.

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Scott and his staff are very friendly and professional. They completed the walkway in a timely manner and cleaned up after themselves well. When I asked him to come back a fix a small issue he did it without complaint and also in a timely manner.

Things went well in spite of the tenuous weather conditions during March and April. Scott is a very artistically creative gentleman and his crew is equally respectful and professional. They cleaned up the area when they finished and sought our approval for all steps from paver selection, to type plantings, type of lighting, to the final overall job!

I had a good experience with Scott Woodward. His price was fair compared to his competitors. Scott was very slow to respond though. Once you do make contact with him, he is not there at that point and is very slow to respond on initial contact and sometimes on follow work as well. From people that have seen the work he has done in my house, I have referred him numerous times and I always tell him that he does excellent work. As a contractor, he shows up when he is supposed to, and Scott himself as the business manager is punctual as he should be. His slow response is where Scott needs to improve, other than that he runs an excellent business.

It was horrible. The price was way too much and I had nothing but problems with them. They planted things that were not lined up and the plants all died. They replaced the first one but then they wanted to charge us $50 to come out and plant it when the next one died. They didn't do what they said they were going to do.

Preferred is typically busy with corporate accounts and seems to work around smaller jobs when they can. In our case, Scott got back to us a number of weeks after the initial contact. Once arrangements were made, his crew did a good job and stayed pretty much within the schedule. I think the job took a couple of days longer than anticipated. When complete, the job looked pretty good, but we had a recurring problem with water leaking out of the retention pool. The first time took a couple of weeks before it got low, more recently it went dry within 24 hours. The first time it took them a number of weeks to come out and see what was going wrong. We were told there was a little settling causing water to seep. Scott made some adjustments which worked for a time. We are going to call again to have him come out to fix a water feature which is currently turned off because I have no idea where all the water is leaking.

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I called and asked for a small pond and 'rock garden'. He came out to measure and create a design. He discussed this with me and gave me an estimate. He encouraged me to go for a larger pond, which I did. I now have a labrador retriever who seems to enjoy the large pond! I was pleased with his work and professionalism. I've enjoyed many peaceful moments sitting near the pond, listening to the sound of the water falls and tossing food to the fish.

He is very professional. They left the yard really clean, there was a lot of digging and everything looked great when they left. They were very professional. I will definitely use them again.