Bailey's Tree And Landscaping

Description of Work: Poured a new walkway which is falling apart. Having a new one poured this weekend by someone who knows what they are doing. The clearing of the brush and tree trimming was done well. No complaints on that portion of the work. They need to stick to tree work.

Description of Work: Take down and remove large tries

Description of Work: I’ve used Bobby of Bailey's Tree And Landscaping for several years. I live in an old neighborhood with big old trees. My neighbor behind me had a huge tree that was hanging over my house and I’d been trying to get him to cut it down for several years, and finally I sent Bobby over there. I called him up and asked him when he was going to cut that tree down and he asked me if I would pay $500 toward cutting the tree down and I said yes I would; it would be better than the tree falling on my house. So Bobby charged him $1300 of which I paid $500, and then Bobby also cleaned up all the leaves and stuff around my house since I hadn’t done any leaf stuff and that was another $600; so I paid Bobby $1100 and that guy paid him $800. So it was about $1300 to $1400 for a big tree. I had actually paid the guy back then another $500 for another tree, plus and the guy next door to him another $500, so I paid $1500 for my neighbors to cut down trees. But that’s better than having the tree fall through your house. And Bobby comes around every couple of years and he has cut down several other trees. I’ve gotten all of my big trees out of here because after a tree is 50 years old it is very dangerous.

Description of Work: Bailey's business card doesn't give his address, so I can't give a location for his business. But his workers say he lives out near Old Rag Mountain, which is near Shenandoah National Park. He does a lot of work in Prince William County, and because of the distance, his crews never arrive before 10:00 am. He has cut down trees for me on a couple of previous occasions and I was satisfied. His card implies he does everything outdoors, so on this job I hired him to remove 3 trees in order to open the front yard up to the sun, transplant a juniper bush, take out about 9 tons of stone that was previously installed as a dry creek bed, lay a drainage pipe where the creek had been, and prepare the front lawn area (about 2200 square feet) for sod. He didn't prepare the old soil (aerate, add nutrients) well enough. He didn't fill in the dry creek bed area with enough new soil. He didn't level out the entire area. And he didn't roll the sod after installing it. Also, he laid sod that had thin fescue which is cold weather sod, not very sun tolerant. Obviously, I wasn't aware of these requirements until after the job was done. My problem. The juniper bush died. As I was watering the sod early on, I noticed water would drain out of the drainage pipe. And it's not perforated pipe. There's a break in the line somewhere. The thing about Bobby Bailey is (and again this is my problem), he doesn't give a receipt for his work, so you can't even prove he did it. He's like this transient who travels around drumming up work from neighbors as he does some job or other. This is an example of how NOT to hire a contractor.