STAN'S CONCRETE

WELL, NOT GREAT BUT NOT TERRIBLE. SEEMED TO NEED TO BORROW TOOLS A LOT (TAPES AND A HAMMER) AND COMMUNICATION WAS TUFF. THEY DID A GREAT JOB ON THE FOUNDATION, BUT I HAD TO BE ON TOP OF THEM TO GET IT DONE. TOOK 2 WEEKS. HIS BIGGEST PROBLEM LOOKS TO BE COMMUNICATION THEY ARE FROM TONGA AND SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHEN THEY WANT TO, BUT FOR THE MOST PART PLAYED LIKE THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. HAD A BIG PROBLEM WITH "WE WILL BE HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING." MY BAD FOR NOT ASKING WHICH MORNING.

THE PROJECT WAS A DISASTER. WHILE HIS AD SAYS THAT HE HAS 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE, AND DOES DECORATIVE CONCRETE WORK, IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS NEITHER PREPARED WITH THE APPROPRIATE TOOLS, NOR THE SKILLS TO DO THE JOB. HE CAME TO THE JOB WITHOUT THE TOOLS HE NEEDED, AND BORROWED TOOLS FROM US. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO POUR, WE HAD TO OVERSEE HIS WORK OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN IT TURNED OUT TO BE. SCORING OF THE CONCRETE WAS CRUDE, AND CROOKED. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS MORE TROUBLE, AND COST TO TEAR UP CONCRETE THAN TO POUR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE SHOULD HAVE SUED BUT CHOSE INSTEAD TO TRY TO SALVAGE THE JOB. I MORTARED THE SCORED JOINTS TO TRY TO COVER UP THE UNEVENNESS, AND AFTER A LOT OF WORK ON MY PART MANAGED TO MAKE IT LOOK ACCEPTABLE. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS CONTRACTOR UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.