We finally decided to let him go because 4 mos into this and not one project was completed. We were to have a french door put in but my wife no longer felt safe with him so we cancelled that. It would probably take him another 4 mos to get that put in. The Arbor was not started the stone boarder was no longer completed. The stone planter that was to be created by him was changed and never because I overheard him tell one of his employees that they will not make it big and pretty as were the plans because "they don't have any more money." There are many peices to this project that have not been started nor have been finished. His time manangement skill and his professionalism are terrible. Please stay away from this contractor.I now am completing these projects on my own and have spent more money than expected to get this done.Now I can complete this on my time and it will probably be done quicker than he would do it.
Description of Work: On June 9th 2012 we signed a contract with Legend Construct and Design to put in a covered patio aprox 340 sq/f and an arbor to transition to our jaccuzzi for about 130 s/f. Mr. Simons claimed that if we did not put down a deposit wich was 3500 dollars, half of the total for the project we would miss out on the low prices of the lumber which the money was to be used to purchase. It took him till July 21th before he finally came over to do any work on my project. We failed inspection for concrete 2 times. Then it took 7 days before the concrete came and was poured. Then it took another month before he started any work with putting in the posts after he claimed he would be over the following monday to allow the concrete to cure. This was a continuous effort to get him to come out and do any work. My material that he was to have bought with my money never came. He would bring it over little by little and claim that he needed to pick new wood up because he ordered the wrong size. There was alway an excuse to why he could not show up. Finally on October 3rd the concrete and stone was put on and the patio cover was up but nothing was trimmed and no electric was done. My next door neighbor started the same project with a reputable company and his square footage is a litte bigger than mine and it took them 3 weeks complete the job. Mine is still not done. This contractor wants to be paid on work before it is even started. That should have been my ahha moment!
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
4.0
value
4.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
1.0
punctuality
1.0
$5,500
Sonya H.
05/2012
1.0
hardscaping
+ -1 more
At first the work went real well (started job on 9-14-2011), they were there a lot but then around Thanksgiving they started putting other jobs in front of ours. we had paid them a lot up front. the job ended up costing us $35K. He first promised completion at thanksgiving. then that did not happen then Christmas and that did not happen then on 1-21 I begged him to finish. He was always very rude and defensive when we requested/insisted on him finishing the job. So on 2-9 we finally gave him the next to last payment of $1500 and that is when we both signed the finished contract date of 3-1. He never showed up, kept having excuses until I told him I needed it done by 3-9 as family was coming over. He came on 3-9 and worked the whole day but did not finish ONE thing. We had a signed contract that they would be finished on 3-1, but they did not finish, we finally fired them on 4-5. They never finished the job.. still had the fountain, sealing the floors, finishing stone around grill, mantel for fireplace, and some painting.
Description of Work: They created an outdoor covered living space 1100 square feet with fire place, outdoor grill, flagstone floor and fountain (which they did not finish)
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Dale Simonds Of Legend Design & Construct is currently rated 1 overall out of 5.
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