Tiki Climbing & Grinding

Initially is seemed good, but he never finished the job. He offered the best price but never finished the work. He stopped answering and returning our phone calls when we tried to get him to finish grinding a stump that he left in mididle of our yard. Buyer beware, make sure all of the work is Completely finished before you pay him! We still have a large "shark fin" of a tree stump left in our backyard after paying him $200 to remove it.

It went well.

I can not say enough good things about TJ and his crew from Tiki Tree Service. I had originally contracted with another vendor to remove 3 medium-sized dead trees from my front yard and 1 extremely large tree which overhung the house. After giving the first vendor a deposit, he subcontracted the work out to Tiki and then left me high and dry -- along with my deposit. TJ was extremely upset over how I was treated by the other vendor. Tiki was originally only to take down the trees and the orher vendor was to do the clearing, hauling and stump grinding. TJ ended up doing all the clearing, hauling and stump grinding as well for the original price that had been quoted by the other vendor, which basically was his cost. He also offered to help me in small claims court to recover my deposit from the other vendor. I would definitely recommend TJ and Tiki Tree Service and will most certainly use his company exclusively from now on.

Our experience with TIKI started out well enough. TJ (TIKI's owner) came over, and we explained what we wanted to have done and also that for financial reasons we would have to do the work in two phases over two years. He was willing to work with us on that and drew up plans accordingly. He presented his plan for the first phase and gave us an estimate of the cost, which was within our budget. Although TIKI had done work for us and two or our neighbors in the past, none of these jobs were of the scale we planned. TJ took us out to two sites to give us an idea of what our project would look like when completed. Both were still in progress. The owners at one site came out and talked with us and seemed quite pleased with the work TIKI was doing for them Work commenced on January 13, 2012. As the project took shape we were impressed. It was vastly superior to the railroad ties and bricks that made up our former patio. At this point we would have given TIKI good references. But on Feb. 6, TJ showed up asking for final payment. He told us that the hardscape was finished and assured us that his crew would be back to clean up our site. He pointed out that he still had $70,000 worth of equipment on the site, which guaranteed that they would be back. Naively we took him at his work and paid him in full. Sure enough, within a week his crew came and removed the $70,000 worth of heavy equipment. Then followed five weeks of broken promises and unreturned phone calls as we tried to get him to come back and finish the cleanup. On Mar. 16 two members of the crew finally came out and removed the day-glo orange trash pit and some other light equipment. They moved materials that were on our neighbor's lot onto ours. That we the last we saw of them. The last time we taked to TJ he basically told us they were done. In the meantime we have discovered places where the hardscape was not finished. When laying the floor of the patio, TIKI failed tleave clearance for attaching a hose to the spigot--even with an adaptor. In cleaning up the site ourselves, we've realized just what a huge mess they left. We have had to hire a company to come and remove the remaining debirs. All this has caused us to doubt the quality of all the work TIKI performed. We had thought that since phase 2 remained to be done that TJ would have wante dot stay in our good graces. Instead we feel that he wrote us off. What started out as a promising project has turned into a huge disappointment.

HORRIBLE!

When I examined carefully the copy of the contract with which Tiki provided me at the time of payment, I found that Tiki had falsely and fraudulently forged on it, above my signature, so-called "change orders," for the "additional" services, at the additional $2,000.00, described above. The document is indeed an odd one since it is a carbon copy of the contract with the so-called 'change orders" written on it in ink. Another contractor, who had the appropriate equipment, finished the work for me in one morning for $250.00. In addition, Tiki damaged my neighbor's property in performing the work on mine which Tiki had agreed at the outset, with both me and the neighbor, to be particularly careful not to do