Almost Perfect Landscaping

I received a voicemail several days later informing me that they were not interested in providing an estimate for the work. No clear reasons were given. I found it odd because they were so enthusiastic about the work during the initial consultation.

I called Almost Perfect Landscaping and spoke to Mary. She was very charming and knowledgeable lady who worked out an arrangment with Mr. Porter. At 7:15 pm last night two men cut my yard and clenaed up before they left. They did an excellent job and were very prompt, excellent, professional and fair. We will continue to work with them.

As always they do a wonderful job, if fact I'm considering picking up a yearly contract with them. The technicians they send are always on time and very courteous. I highly recommend them.

Frank promptly called me and informed me that he does not cover my area. He did however give me some advice if I opted to manage my own lawn and even recommended another landscaper who is local to me. Frank seems like a nice guy.

Frank Porter provided the design ideas for the job. They came when promised and met with us at the nursery to pick the bushes and trees for the job. Frank recommended All Season Sprinklers to perform the sprinkler system installation and coordinated the installation before the sod and mulch was installed. They did a fine job as well.

A person came in and he was done. They came over to my house and did the inspection.

I called 10 days ago to request for someone to come to my home and provide an estimate for weekly lawn care and maintenance. I was told that they were extremely busy and that no one would be available to come the following day (as I requested) but that someone would give me a call by the next day to schedule an appointment. That was 10 days ago. I had other landscaping companies come and give me estimates, and obviously did not bother following up with this company that could not even do me the basic professional courtesy of calling me like they said they would. I initially contacted this company because they received the most reviews, and mostly positive ones. But perhaps they are so busy that they do not need my business.

When I first met the proprietor, I was excited about what I believe was a good approach to getting my lawn back to a healthy state since harsh weather conditions and winter storms had cause a good deal of damage. And as I was looking for a more organic alternative as I have minor children, I thought Almost Perfect was a good solution. The workers at Almost Perfect would regularly every other week and the lawn initially showed some improvement. As I had spoken to the proprietor about possibly resodding the back part of the property I wanted to get that started as well. However, due to scheduling constraints nothing became of the resodding project. All in all, I believe the proprietors intent to provide excellent service was there. However, the task of getting the job donean scheduling challenges proved to be more challenging. Either way whether the care and maintenance was started later than was practical or more needed to be done, in the end, I was not satisfied and chose not to renew the service.

I searched for a landscaper here on Angie's list since my husband and I are fairly new homeowners. I chose to contact Almost Perfect Landscaping since a majority of the feedback is positive. Frank contacted me almost immediately after I reached out to him and was at my property within a day or two. My husband and I originally contacted him to put down sod in our backyard which we figured would be costly. However, when Frank took at look at the property, he was VERY honest and said there was no need for such a big job, and that we should be ok with aerating, seed and fertilization followed by maintenance. His honesty was what made up my mind to hire him. Any person could have come and just given me a quote for sod and done the job- which I'm sure would have been more money than what I actually had done! I give Frank a lot of credit for that! We scheduled for the job to be done the following week. I only contacted him once to confirm the job would be done and it was completed at promised. My husband and I were not home when the work was done, but we were THOROUGHLY impressed with how the property looked when we returned home that day!! Our lawn and backyard was aerated, seeded and fertilized as promised. All the leaves were gone, any dead plants were removed, any extra debris we had around the property were also removed. They were even nice enough to put down a couple of bags of mulch my husband and I didn't get around to doing and straightened out gravel that we have on either side of our driveway! They left our property very nice and clean. It showed they paid attention to detail and worked very hard at making everything look perfect. My husband and I were so happy with the end result, we would definitely hire them again and recommend them!

We chose not to do the drainage pipes this year after all, and will save up for a bigger landscaping effort in the future. I would call Frank again to get his ideas and a quote for future projects.

We moved into our home in June 2012 and looked on Angie's List for someone to take care of our lawn. Frank was one of the only people I left a message for that returned my call and came by to give me an estimate. They're not the cheapest or the most expensive but they do quality work. I knew almost nothing about lawn care and basically asked for him to take care of my lawn and make sure whatever needed to be done was done. I felt the service was good, however, Post Sandy the service became what I consider excellent. I didn't realize a fall cleanup was part of what I signed up for, but I'm so grateful it was. We had not only leaves, but branches and other stuff all over the front/back lawn. We came home from work one day to find it 100% taken care of. After dealing with no power and other stresses due to the storm it was great to come home and find this done for us (better than if we had done it ourselves). We have signed up once again to have Almost Perfect Landscaping take care of our lawn, and couldn't be happier.

I thought the work was performed the way I wanted it and the price was on target.

When Mr. Porter came to our home to give us an estimate, he did seem knowledgeable about work to be done and areas to be addressed. However, we were given the impression that it was our "opportunity" to hire him and were turned off. We figured the quote would help make our decision. The quote came in at twice the amount ($5500) of the other quotes we received (we had 3 done to be thorough since this was our first landscaping experience). Given this, we chose not to hire Almost Perfect and went with another company who did an excellent job at half the price.

they were professional and and performed all work estimated.

The owner provides top notch customer service and his crew does excellent work. Any issues or concerns are addressed promptly. I'm looking forward to working with them again this year.

I was very impressed with the responsiveness and overall professionalism with almost perfect. Fall cleanup is pretty straightforward but we also discussed future work for the yard. I got honest advice and I plan to use almost perfect exclusively for future yard work and more.

They contacted me almost immediately after I purchased the coupon to set up an appointment. Came on time and did a thorough inspection of the area under consideration for construction. Definitely had good ideas and options.

/Made an appointment ; he came over : we discussed options; he provided a plan

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The overall evaluation is Almost Perfect. The perfect part is efficient, on-time work. Most of the landscaping was done in one day and looked greatly improved right away. Relocating existing shrubs and one blue spruce was a great idea of Frank's. The annual flower beds were planted some days after and they grew and filled in beautifully. The north and west sections of the yard had to be leveled; the tree loss from the storms had left odd lumps in the lawn from the stump grindings. After leveling, three new trees and two additional forsythias were planted. The rehabilitation of the lawn began; this has taken all summer and has been quite successful. The lawn looks great! The weekly maintenance has been thorough, efficient and worry-free - and reasonable. The "Almost" part is minor and more about customer relations. (1) The original Angie's List Deal referred to a written plan, but none was received. Frank and I agreed on a plan after discussing several ideas. The e-mailed quote for the work was skeletal and left several questions about what was covered. Since Frank's preferred methods of contact are text or e-mail, it took a day or so to get answers. (2) During our discussion of the plan, Frank had said that we would visit a nursery to select the new trees. I was looking forward to this and to picking out the trees myself. I came out one morning and Frank was marking the lawn where the three trees were to be planted. He had already selected and bought the trees without me. This was a disappointment. All in all, Almost Perfect is perfectly named. Everything looks great. The lawn, which had been a mess, has never looked better. The flower beds were stunning and lush. I mention my complaints not because they are deal-breakers, but such things may be important to you. I will continue to use Almost Perfect for the lawn next year and for some additional fencing and a new Mountain Ash in the spring.

I called for an estimate and Frank came by the next day and we agreed on the price. He said they could do the work the following week but his crew arrived only 2 days later and did an excellent job.

Our RR tie driveway retaining walls were 35 years old and rapidly deteriorating. Additionally, there was a walkway from the street to the front door that simply was never used. The landscaping, which was done over 20 years ago, was starting to be overgrown despite our maintenance efforts and harsh winters/storms and the deer had taken their toll on a number of plantings. We had a pretty fair idea of what we wanted though nothing was cast in stone, so to speak, and having spoken to a few contractors over the years, we had a fair idea of what the cost might be. We contacted Almost Perfect Landscaping - what kind of name is that? - by email and Frank quickly responded. After a day of missing each other, we finally spoke and set up a time to get together. When the doorbell rang, I quickly glanced out but didn't see anyone. Then I looked down and there was Frank - he is a bit on the short side. We walked the site and as I told him what I was looking for, he was quickly making recommendations for possible solutions. For example, we briefly talked about using engineered stone to replace the RR ties, but we both agreed that RR ties were a better fit for the woodsy type of landscape that we have and enjoy. One of the things we really liked about Frank's approach was his willingness and desire to reuse/relocate many of the mature plants that were already existing - though the one's the deer love to eat definitely had to go! We talked through a couple of different approaches to the new front walkway from the driveway to the front door .. and settled on a bluestone slabs set in a pea gravel approach outlined by RR ties. We didn't come up with an agreed to solution for the back walkway so put that on hold. Frank got back to us within 48 hours with a price and it was in the range of where I thought it should be. He also said it would be about a 4 day effort for his crew of 3 and him. We verbally agreed to get started and within a week Frank and his crew were at the house working. They crew arrived relatively early every day and quickly got to work. The first part of the project was creative destruction as the old RR tie walls, the front walkway and a number of older evergreen trees and shrubs were taken out. Then the RR tie walls and stairs were started and the area where the front walkway had been was newly landscaped. The new front walkway was next and it turned out so well we agreed with Frank that the back walkway (had been on the back burner)should just be a duplicate of it. As they were finishing up the RR ties and walkways, Frank suggested that the freestanding stairways should have a railing - I guess he noticed that we were getting on in our years. Seriously, it was an excellent suggestion as I remembered a friend of ours saying she had trouble coming up our existing RR tie steps without a railing. Frank designed a new wooden railing and put it up but when I saw it, I realized it should have been on the other side of the steps. I brought that to Frank's attention and he quickly agreed. He was able to move the one he had already built to the back steps and then built a new one for the front steps ... so everything worked out well. It turned out that with the additional items including the new back walkway, the railings and some other trees I wanted, Frank and his crew wound up getting the job done in 4.5 days. They cleaned up every day before leaving so we could still use our attached garage for our cars in the evenings. They even worked on a Saturday - which we didn't expect - and it had the positive effect of making the overall project timeline 1 day shorter. One of the things that impressed us the most was the work ethic of Frank's crew and how respectfully Frank treated them. We will not hesitate to use Frank and Almost Perfect Landscaping again - even though the name still seems odd and Frank is still short. In fact, we had Frank and his crew seal our driveway shortly after performing the other work.

I bought the service voucher at supposedly discount: $45 for gutter cleaning. They did come and perform the service. However, I realized that I have gutter screen, so technically I do not need much cleaning. It was not their fault or anything. I just wished that they told me on the spot, and preferably, gave me an option to use the voucher for something else they offer. Therefore, I consider it a fair experience.

I would recommend frank porter and Chris for any future projects. Trust and Professionalism is hard to find now a days and Almost Perfect is the best place to start

I didn't know what the state of my gutters were when they began, and I had no idea what kind of job they did since they did not speak to me at all about my gutters.