HARRIN'S SAND AND GRAVEL

I called around 9:30 a.m. and explained what I needed. I ordered four tons of gravel, but then called back and reduced it to three tons. I asked if they could come out the same day, and they said they could work that out. They arrived only a few hours after I called them, which was great. I later noticed they had overchared me by ten dollars. I called and the person who answered the phone immediately acknowledged it, saying his Visa charges hadn't balanced the night before. We agreed they'll apply the $10 to the next time I order gravel from them, which is fine with me. If you need gravel at a fair price and need it quickly, I would not hesitate to recommend these folks.

Jeff and his team are awesome. He originally just came to deliver gravel. He was prompt, friendly, and courteous. I contracted with him to fix the grading along the side of the house where water was pooling. When a few weeks later we had a flood in our basement due to a torrential downpour, I called Jeff at 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday night and he and one of his men were there within 15 minutes and rerouted the drainage with temporary pipes in the midst of the downpour to stop the flooding. He and his son Alex came out that Saturday with their equipment and buried real drainage pipes under the driveway. The first day we had another downpour after that, Jeff called to check in to see if we had had any more water in the basement. It has been dry ever since!

I telephoned Jeff for a load of river sand at about 10 a.m. That afternoon at 2 p.m. Jeff had negotiated our difficult access road and dumped the load of sand exactly where I wanted it. I cannot think what he could have done better. On top of all that Jeff is a very pleasant person to deal with.

He was amazing. We are finishing our house while living in it, and we had a big problem with water settling at the front door and in the basement. He was the third grader we had. He identified the problem right away and took care of it. The last rain storm we had proved he was right. The water now goes away from the house. He brought top soil and spread it. He even made an extra parking place for the truck. This sounds very simple, but it was what he did not have to do that impressed me too. We thought we needed more road bond on our driveway, which is long and downhill. He said we did not need to do it now, maybe in a year. That was money he could have made, but he chose to be honest. He cut down two trees for us and piled up the wood. Then before he left, he filled in the pot holes in our semi-private road. We have met many dishonest people in the journey of building this house in the woods, but Harrin's Sand and Gravel makes me remember there are honest people around.