Nature's Best Landscapes
24044 Beard Ave
Lakeville, MN 55044 952-239-0489
Lakeville, MN 55044 952-239-0489
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Consumer Ratings for Nature's Best Landscapes — 1 Ratings
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Consumer Comments for Nature's Best Landscapes
Sep 24, 2013
The next issue was with the excess soil. I told him they could pile the extra dirt on the back of our lot and showed him the exact place I wanted it. Not only did they put it in the wrong place, covering up a very obvious path to the woods behind our house, but they didn't remove the chunks of old rotting wood. I had to have them come back and clean up and move the dirt.
Another issue was with a poor cut on one of the blocks. To get around a board next to the house they had to notch one of the blocks. The cut was 2 inches off and left an ugly gap in the wall. Rather than grab a new block and try again, they left it and continued building the wall.
After the work was done, on the larger of the two walls, it looked like it wasn't as high as the original wall. I looked at some old pictures of the wooden wall an sure enough, he stopped one course short of where he should have. He tried to tell me that he put in the number of courses he had in his bid, but I pointed to the part that said he had to replace the original wall, not just most of the original wall. If there was a reason to stop short, he should have brought it up. My hunch is that he stopped short because the original was over 4 feet tall, requiring a permit to rebuild.
Finally, there was an issue with the condition of the yard when they though they were done. His skid-steer loader tore up the hill going to the backyard, and all of the lawn near the wall. that's to be expected, but what is also expected is that they replace the sod they tore up. He told me at the beginning that they would put sheets of plywood down on the lawn so lawn wouldn't get torn up and wouldn't have to be repaired. They abandoned this plan immediately and tore up the lawn. When they said they were done, I mentioned that the lawn was all tore up, including some of my neighbors lawn. He tried to tell me he didn't have any sod work in his bid. I told him he also told me he wouldn't tear up the lawn but he did. How ANY landscaper could think about leaving a project they way they did is incredible.