S & J Excavation

We have lived in our house for over 35 years and the driveway has not been graded in the past 15 or so, since the town decided not to maintain it as the end of the road, but to treat it as a private driveway. We had had it filled with stone a couple of times, but it was turning into a mud hole and the water was running down it and almost into the garage, I got two estimates for the driveway work and Steve's was the lowest. However, what he told me and detailed in his estimate was close to what the other contractor told me. He appeared to be a one-man operation for this job, running the small front loader by himself. There was some miscommunication about when he would come to do the work - he did not call ahead the two times he showed up at our house - but for the actual work he did call that morning. He arrived about 10 am, walked me through the work I wanted done - grading the driveway and pitching it so it does not run into our garage as well as an area for a turn around. He came with equipment and a load of fill. I watched as he graded the area and directed the dump trucks (2) loads of fill. There is an overhead wire that we have had issues with and he very carefully directed the truck driver around it. He spent a lot of time moving the fill into place and packing it. The driveway now drains away form the house and garage, just what we asked for. And when he was done, the bill was for exactly what he quoted.