Fernandez Landscape & Masonry LLC

Jose Fernandez is trying to perpetuate a fraud by changing the name of his company and sending out emails blaming his brother Victor for any problems one might have had. The bottom line is if you go to any address listed for their company, it is always a residence and no one is home. Jose Fernandez is the person I spoke to 4 times and each time he swore his workers would show up at my house to perform the work for which I contracted. They never did. Jose Fernandez is the name at the bottom of the contract and estimate that he never honored. The bottom line is, you hire either one of these jokers and you will regret it. They are just trying to run away from the bad reviews everyone has been giving them by changing the name of their companies and blaming each other. Don't bother, move on

Entryway came in 50-65% higher than other quotes for same speced job $4500 versus $2800/$3000. Walkway was also 44% high $3900 versus $2700 for pavers -- 44% higher. Competing prices were from licensed reputable masonry companies not handymen. Also a bit out of touch with listening to the scope of the job. Can't recommend these guys based on pricing and not listening to my requirements. They did show up for the estimate so I credit them for that although wish we would have just discussed the pricing on the phone and saved the time.

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The workers arrived on time and worked long hours. The replaced bricks are a very close match to existing bricks. The job took 3 full days and they even came on a Sunday. They also cleaned up very well. Very pleased with the new entry.

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Mr Fernandez came in under $300 of other landscapers who bid our job. Living in a townhome we needed approval by our board on the plan. Mr Fernandez does not do landscaping drawings so we did it ourselves, which was approved the day we submitted. Our patio was in bad shape from weathering, bad drainage and pretty much unusable. A crew of 6 showed up at 7:30AM and went right to work finishing the patio by 3:30pm. The crew was very hard working and did a fabulous job. They worked very fast and only took a break at lunch. They also cleaned up very nicely. I would say they are very professional, friendly and if I needed any other landscaping done, I would not hesitate to hire them again. The only thing is, they are busy, and if you need to get a hold of them, you may need to wait a day for a reply after leaving a message. We are really enjoying our new patio.

Mr. Fernandez and his team delivered a beautiful, functional space in natural stone and bluestone. We spent about 3 years evaluating and planning how to deal with some drainage issues on our property that were making our yard area largely useless. We had areas of constant mud and wetness, even through hot august droughts. The kids couldnt play in certain areas without losing sneakers in brownie-mix mud. And flash flooding was problematic with every summer thunderstorm to make it worse. We had an engineer (a relative) draw up some plans for drainage that would remedy the situation. It included a retaining wall along the property on a hillside, extensive drainage across several areas of the property, and ripping up previous drainage lines installed by the previous owners that couldn't handle the water (it turns out they were done horribly wrong). We interviewed about 7 lanscaping companies, and got written proposals from 5, describing the requirements outlined by the engineer and our wish list for cosmetic improvements that would make the yard more usable and give us more space. Two of the 7 insisted the engineer didn't know what he was talking about and wanted to put in much lower capacity drainage; and one would only give a verbal price, wouldn't put it in writing. We dropped those. Mr Fernandez estimate was right in the middle of the estimates, which ranged by about 50% from highest to lowest. But what stood out about Mr. Fernandez estimate is that he proposed, at that middle price range, a bluestone patio and natural stone walls with bluestone caps. Everyone else proposed pavers and techo-style block walls. The most expensive proposal was proposing bluestone and quot;styleand quot; pavers. It seemed insane to me to use concrete pavers made to look like bluestone for more money than actual bluestone. We had a very good idea, design wise, of what we wanted to do, in addition to the drainage engineering. I will note that some of the other contractors brought CAD diagrams etc of what they were proposing. Mr Fernandez doesn't do that. But in the end, a pretty piece of paper doesn't balance out to me the look of pavers vs. natural stone. I'm not sitting on my blueprint having a BBQ, I'm sitting on my bluestone patio. We selected Mr. Fernandez, based on price and also based on the fact that he did a co-workers bluestone patio and sitting wall. I got to see his work and I was impressed. We did go back and forth several times on the contract to ensure that it was clear and detailed enough for my detail oriented personality. (I am quite picky) Mr Fernandez crew started within two days of our planned start date (rain delays on his previous project pushed us back a little). One they started, Mr. Fernandez' crew and equipment were there on the job, without fail, from the start of the project until 95% done. HIs backhoe, equipment truck, a concrete tumbler, and at least one dumptruck were on site the entire duration of the project. His crew of between 6 and 12 people were there at least 6 days a week, including saturdays and a few sundays, from 7:30 AM until 5. We had a one day rain delay, and one weekend they had a social event and he told me ahead of time. There was never an issue of and quot;we returned the leased backhoeand quot; or and quot;we can't do X because we're waiting on a piece of equipmentand quot;. They came in like an army and worked tirelessly. This was a pleasant surprise, as I've had the experience of the contractor who shows up, demos part of your house, then disappears for a week and a half before they start working again. The last portion of work they did leave before completing, which was just to reinstall the handrails, and they were back in 3 days to finish that and do the final walkthrough. The entire job took about 5 weeks. Mr. Fernandez himself was a pleasure to deal with as a contractor... he is even keeled, communicative, accessible, and just simply easy to deal with. Definitely not one of the barking, know it all, constant excuse contractors I've had the displeasure of dealing with on other large projects. He dealt with the inevitable surprises that arose without any issues, and we were able to add additional work to the project (cosmetic items that we held off on to see how the core work looked) without any issues.

It went very well. They were very nice and very informative. They gave me some ideas.

They've done a nice job for me. Mr. Fernandez is very responsive whenever I contact him. They only bill for the services they do, even under that contract. You know exactly what it is that you're paying for. They're going to be doing my fall clean-up and lawn fertilzation before winter. I also plan to call them about some other possible landscaping projects.

They are efficient, courteous and trusted (we are lucky enough to know the family as their children attend our local schools). They are our third landscaper since we moved to Mendham in 1999 and clearly the best. Their prices are far lower than competition. They are also fair in only billing us for completed services, not just the time the crew were on the premises. One of us is often home when they are performing their services, so we have observed this first hand. We have complained on two occasions that flower beds that were due to be weeded were overlooked. They were very responsive in correcting the situation without charge. Another review mentioned problems with rain-outs. We have not experienced this. They routinely self-correct, without our involvement, when weather interferes. Good people, good value. Highly recommended.

Here are areas where they need to work on: The landscapers rush in and rush out and don’t do a thorough job of maintaining the property, i.e. making sure that the beds are neatly kept, cleaning up branches debris etc…I have a very busy schedule so often times I’m not around when the landscapers mow the lawn and there are times that I can’t really tell if they serviced our lawn. Should it rain on the day that we are scheduled for service they obviously don’t mow the lawn, however they don’t follow-up to do the work the following day. In the Spring I received a new contract with a list of services. I made amendments to the contract, mailed it out and followed-up with questions about the specific services we need and we still have not received an updated contract. I had our patio redone last year and I used another company for the project because Fernandez landscaping was ridiculously expensive and lacked a efficiency. The other company was thorough, detail oriented, drafted and designed the project, efficient and ready to do the job and any additional work that was required. I spoke to Fernandez landscaping this week regarding my unhappiness with their service and they told me they would rectify the problems. So, we will see.

I really appreciate them with the snow because they are so on top of it. They do a good job and are always on time.

We contacted Fernandez Landscaping and Masonry for an estimate on masonry work we wanted to have done at our home. They were prompt in returning our call, arrived on time for the initial appointment, providing an estimate within a few days, as well as, a work schedule and window of time the project would be completed in.