PAVERS PLUS LANDSCAPING

The weather was very wet during the two months he spent on the yard. To start with, communication was good and the yard and building was torn up quickly. Rain intervened, but a couple weeks later, the contractor was able to work on the patio and retaining wall. The contractor was not willing to use special ordered materials, so the cap of the retaining wall was changed to a different but useable solution. Rain intervened again. The loose dirt from the back yard washed down and created a path to the window wells. The pile of brush in the back yard had wild life moving in and out of it. I tried to communicate by text, email and phone messages. Finally I drove to his business address, where his wife told me he was fishing for a week. That is not the work ethic I would hope to find in a contractor. After a week, the contractor sent a message. He was going to remove the brush. On the next Wednesday I sent a text about the draining of water into my basement. He replied that thousands of others had water in the basement. Since my sump pump was not running and the water had pooled by the window well, this is a problem related to the unfinished landscaping. On Thursday, he came over, told me he wasn't going to do the sodding because no money had exchanged hands on that part of the deal. After a long repetitive discussion, he agreed to regrade a part of the yard and to remove the trash that was left. It took two more contacts to get that done. A tree stump and some concrete from the building are still left in the yard. The patio looks good, but I think I'll have to have more work done by someone because when I wash off the patio, water runs toward the window wells. The retaining wall has water ways through it. This was not a good investment