Georgia Gardening: Any landscaping horror stories?, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Wow, that is a scary story and I know there are a lot worse. Some contractors have given their profession a bad name. Our first landscaper thought after we signed the contract that he had us locked in I guess. He had more excuses for putting us off. The first couple of times you can usually let them slide because most everybody runs into problems. The third time was the final straw. He had his lackey deliver the plans after he proposed the meeting. His excuses that day were he was tied up on another job, then it was a printer malfunction, and finally he had to go to the hospital to get a MRI done of his brain. Most of the communications came from his secretary though which is pretty poor.

Luckily we have only paid for plans we will never use and have a fence that is almost complete but will have to look elsewheres to finish it up after assurances from the fence guy (Xtreme fence) that he could get the job done in two days - it has now been over six weeks. Our new landscaper is moving along quite nicely (we paid $7k up front for materials and 1st week of labor?) but it sure takes a lot of money to get a big job done.


Here are the pallets of stone so far for landscaping.