Affordable Tree and Stump Removal

WARNING: Afforable Tree Company has a $2500 deductible. Because of all the problems I had with them paying for damage, I called their insurance company. Alicia said they could not make any claim unless it was over $2500. Mike does not return text, calls or emails. I finally texted Kenny and he did respond when I told him I was putting it through insurance. I will detail the issues below. I hired Affordable Tree Company to take down trees in my front yard, grind stumps and remove and chip honeysuckle. I came back from the store when they were finishing up. Mike met me at the top of my driveway and said, I have good news and bad news. Good news is we have all your trees cut down (I don't know why that was good news--that's what I hired them to do) and bad news, we destroyed your landscape lighting. When they came for estimate, I specifically showed them wire location and stressed the importance of being careful when grinding up stumps. He will claim it wasn't 18 inches below. It was landscape lighting and didn't have to be. It was also in conduit. They insisted their electrician fix it. After waiting several days and Halloween coming, I had my electrician cap off all wiring that was mangled out of the ground. When my electrician fixed the entire landscape areas (two landscape areas were connected), I had him write two bills--one for affordable tree damage and one for my new areas. Of course, Kenny said he wouldn't pay because it wasn't detailed. It certainly was. I sent him a new bill and never heard back. I finally called his insurance company who stated they wouldn't pay unless it's more than $2500. BEWARE! There were two other issues--I think after destroying my lights in my one landscape bed, he didn't grind out the stump in the other bed. When we went to put in new plants, the stump was still there. The second issue--they were suppose to chip all the honeysuckle and brush. Instead they pushed the whole pile into the woods which is on my neighbor's property. Kenny told me over 3 months ago that he would come chip the pile. He still hasn't done it. It is an eyesore. Therefore I highly recommend NOT using this company.

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