Basile Landscaping & Lawn Care LLC

Description of Work: Basille: Removed our old rotting deck Installed a new patio with a retaining wall and fence to replace the deck Removed and replaced two old piers for a second story deck that were rotted and not installed correctly originally.

Description of Work: Basile Landscaping performed a fall treatment to our sorry lawn. They aerated, fertilized and overseeded.

Description of Work: none

Description of Work: Only an initial visit was performed. No follow up for over a month.

Description of Work: When I tell you how wonderful this company is, you will think I am exaggerating! I have worked with many contractors of late and all of them left much to be desired but this company was fantastic. They did an excellent job listening ( - really listening, not just giving lip service) to what we wanted and they did their best to work within our budget. Their workers were very respectful and worked very hard, sometimes the weather making working conditions difficult. While other contractors we've had left a huge mess at the end of the day (including their lunch/coffee/cigarette trash) these men left the job immaculate. We had major work done -lots of bushes removed, lots of digging etc. so alot of mess necessarily had to be created in order to get the job done right. At the end of the day they swept,washed, vacuumed - leaving the place cleaner than I could have expected. We don't like people smoking or listening to loud music when they work for us. No one played music and when they smoked, it was inside their trucks, off our property. Not one cigarette butt to be found left behind like other inconsiderate people have left. If ever there was a question, if something wasn't what we expected, they immediately addressed our questions or concerns. We had serious drainage problems and the original plan we tried did not work so they suggested another solution. The first solution they tried, while trying to keep our budget in mind, did not work but there was no way of knowing that before hand. So we had to go with another avenue. While it did cost us a little more, I thought it was certainly a fair price for all the hard work they did. So far, the second solution to the horrible drainage problem we had has worked very well. We paid another contractor, a few years ago, to replace old window wells. The job was not done right. We lost money and had a lot of aggrivation because of the water getting into the wells. Basile came in and replaced the window wells properly and made sure the drainage would go away from the house instead of towards/into the house. We had a large gravel area which had to be removed and reseeded. They dug it all up and brought it all to the front of the house to be put in trucks to be discarded --- they made sure that they didn't spill the gravel all over the yard, no trail of mess was left. We were impressed. We had many new bushes and trees put in. One tree has not made it - with this horrible weather we are surpised only one did not survive. They are going to come out in the fall and replace it. The service before, during and after the job has been excellent. It is nice to work with people who have the same values and work ethic we do. In every case they not only did what they said they would do, they always went a step beyond. Many of my neighbors have come to tell me how impressed they were with the company and the work they did. I will definitely have any future work done by this company and recommend them highly.

Description of Work: My yard was already in bad shape when I purchased my house two years ago, and between work and a new baby we were not able to keep up on maintenance. Consequently it turned into a jungle. I hired Basile Landscaping to clean this up. - Cleaned up the front bed of my house, removing significant ivy ground cover, volunteer tree, and weed overgrowth- Removed a large honeysuckle tree- Planted new bushes in front bed, transplanted others to new locations where they'd be placed better, and re-mulched- dug out a large weed patch between my driveway and my house and replaced it with a rock bed for low maintenance- dug out a 1-foot or so wide section between my property line fence and my driveway and replaced with a low-maintenance rock bed- cleaned up and mulched a 15-foot or so wide area of bed in my back yard

Description of Work: Basile did extensive weeding/mulching/edging/trimming/new planting at our large condominium complex.

Description of Work: I called them to receive estimates for lawn work.

Description of Work: Basile cleared a very large garden in the back of the house and along the side. The garden was overgrown with many shrubs, plants, different types of ivy, and a small tree. There was also a signficant amount of concerete and stone paths that had to come out. Before they started, Eric Herter gave us good advice as to what plants and bulbs we should keep. We ended up transplanting a few plants and two hundred bulbs to friends and family. Basile then installed a sprinkler system in the front, side and back of the house, replaced the garden with sod and seeded and treated the front lawn.

Description of Work: Never received a bid after they came out to look at the job. Called a week later and was told it would be sent via email. Never received and in the meantime, I have had the work bid, decided and completed and still no bid from them! I did see the email from them post dated and have amended my review accordingly. They still did not follow up to see if I recieved the bid or if I had any other questions. In a service business, this is still part of any process for new business development.

Description of Work: Spring maintenance, pruning, add mulch, fertilizer and rebuild a retaining wall.

Description of Work: Cleaned out our dry creek bed (which they had put in a couple years back), cleaned out all of the leaves from the front and the back yard, completely mulched all of our beds and created a beautiful little bed around our tree in the front yard. Trimmed all the bushes around the house (most of which they planted a couple years back). Cleaned out the area under our deck and put down more rock. Along our creek bed I had planted some little spiky plants and they divided them and planted them further up the creek bed. It looks awesome! They raked our entire lawn and cleaned everything up perfect

Description of Work: They cleaned up our yard.

Description of Work: I have used Basile Landscaping & Lawn Care for tree service.

Description of Work: Basile removed an existing brick patio, wall and a brick landscaped area. They installed PVC pipe with clean out adapters to extend the gutter downspouts under the patio and into the front yard. They replaced the patio with stone pavers and built a retaining wall and also a pathway to the driveway both with stone pavers. They removed a wooden fence and replaced it with a beautiful composite fence along side of the patio. They also replaced brick edging in the front of the house with natural flagstone.

Description of Work: I used Basile Landscaping & Lawn Care LLC to do the drainage pipes for me.

Description of Work: Removed existing concrete walkway and stairs to front door Replaced walkway and stairs with pavers and cap stones Added matching paver border around two trees and three flower beds

Description of Work: I began working with Mike Basile and Eric Herter in 2008 when they removed, hauled off and disposed of the existing tie wall on the west side of my home. They removed the established hydrangeas and saved them to transplan into new planting area. They installed approximately 129 square feet of a two terraced, capped Versa-Loc strone wall. The approximate dimensions of this side wall are 5'at a 3' height and 5'at a 2' height. A slotted drain tile (like a French drain) was installed under clean rock to catch the water behind the wall. A filter fabric was installed around the drainage system to prevent topsoil from clogging the drain. The terraces behind the wall were filled with the excavated soil and topsoil was addred at necessary. The hydrangeas were tranplanted the the bed covered with double ground oak bark mulch. At that same time two existing planting areas were cleaned and the existing landscape tie timbers were removed and hauled away. These two beds were edged with Natural Cobblestone edging and covered with landscape fabric and natural stone. I was extremely pleased with the projects and had them return in 2009 to my mother's home for landscaping. In 2009 My Mother's back patio bed was cleaned, the existing plants were removed, haluled off . Her existing hydrangeas (3 plants) were relocated to the newly topsoiled clean bed. Approximately 40' of cobblestone edging was installed around the perimeter of the bed. An additional bed by the patio was cleaned, the existing plants were removed, hauled off. Hostas were planted in this bed. Eric Herter was in charge of this project and again we were extremely pleased. In 2010 I worked again with Eric Herter on the landscaping of my courtyard in the front of my home. They sprayed the unwanted ground cover with a commercial grade round-up to weaken the plants. On a later visit they removed, hauled off and disposed of the unwanted plants, weeds, leaves and debrise. They worked compost into the soil to create an ideal growing environment and added topsoil to the beds. They graded the area to ensure the proper slope and installed weed guard. They installed trap rock under the exiting Japanese maple and matching decorative gravel to the remaining bed areas. They took up and existing Mexican beach pebbles and re-stalled the pebbles and a stone path from the door at the garage to the main walk ways. They planted 2 pink knockout roses, 1 spires, 2 false cypress, 1 blue spruce, 7 Japanese painted ferns, 5 bears breeches, 7, astible, and 5 hostas. At the same time an additional landscape project was completed on the left side of my house. Again the bed preparation was the same. Cobblestone edging, steel edging and natural stone was installed. One weeping Japanese maple, 3 hydrangea's, 3 iteas, 6 hostas and 5 Lenten roses were installed. At this time, the irrigation specialist, Mark Howell installed an irrigation system to the lawn and landscaping areas. In the lawn areas he and his crew member installed the following: 12, 4" pop-up sprinklers, 4 1" valves, 300 ft of 1" PVC pipe,1, 12 Station controller, 200 ft of 13 strand 18 guage wire, and 1 master valve. In the landscape areas they installed: 35 12" micro spray assemblies, 2 1" valved, and 200 ft of 1/2" poly pipes. All jobs have been done to my satisfaction. In 2011 Eric Herter worked with my nieghbor and myself on a drainage problem between our houses. Again, they removed, hauled off and disposed of the turf between the two properties. They installed various sized and small natural stone boulders to create a bed edge and water break designed to direct water as it comes down the hill through the turf towards the low point between the two homes. From this low point they installed a dry creek bed that extends to the wood line. The creek is approximately 4" wide and larger boulders are installed at the top of the creek. Smaller boulders were used along the sides of the dry creeek. The rest of the area between the two homes is filled with Meramec gravel over felt. I also had Meramec gravel installed over commercial grade week guard felt under my deck. I have been very pleased with the work performed by Basile Landscaping and plan to have them complete another project this spring.

Description of Work: Created a landscape design for our whole yard. Removed an existing retaining wall, removed two old large white pines, made new beds, created a new "living wall" with boulders, created new beds, planted 4 trees and numerous other plants. Recommended and then co-ordinated with a concrete company who installed a new front walk and porch.

Description of Work: Basile did a general lawn cleanup, removing sweet gum balls from the lawn, trimming shrubs and replacing mulch around trees and in flower beds. They also removed several overgrown/dead shrubs, then planted new shrubs and flowers in the front flower beds.

Description of Work: After meeting with them we did not hire them.

Description of Work: Removal of large shrubs, trees, plants and other debris. Tree stumps ground down. Topsoil added and the area was graded to prepare for new sod. Fescue sod was installed. Crape myrtles and day lilies were installed.

Description of Work: Installed approximately 74 feet of French drain through the low point of the back yard. The French drain was installed in a 12 inch deep by 6 inch wide trench with a 2 inch rock base laid with 0.75 inch clean gravel. The 4 inch drain pipe was slotted, to collect water, and covered with a sleeve to screen out sediment from potentially clogging the pipe. Another 3 inches of 0.75 inch clean rock was then installed on top of the pipe and the remaining 3 inches was filled in with topsoil. Water from the French drain was outlet into 2 pop-up emitters. Mexican rainbow creek rock was laid at the lowest section of the back yard near the pop-up emitters.

Description of Work: Installation of a french drain on all four sides of a detached garage in the back yard Connecting those drains to an existing underground drain Installation of gutter guard on the garage Installation of a collection box in the front yard Entension of the drain from the downspout in the front of the house

Description of Work: Basile Landscaping & Lawn Care LLC came out to give me an estimate a month ago for lawn and yard work.