Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 3Aug 18, 2013 11:22 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 5Aug 19, 2013 6:02 am The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 8Sep 13, 2013 6:34 pm Building with Jandson Homes - Eclipse 18. http://adgnetworks.blogspot.com/ Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 9Sep 14, 2013 9:20 am Hi Chris. I am not an expert but to my eye the job is a poor one. You have paid a very fair price for the work. Water run off will be an issue if the fall is wrong. If you are in NSW go to the office if fair trading. They will organise a time to come to your place and inspect the work with both parties. If they rule in your favour, the tradie will be required to make good all issues. Best thing is that its a free govt service (not free but taxpayer funded). Not sure if other states have this authority. Good luck. 2 Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 10Sep 15, 2013 10:31 am There is about $2000 outstanding and I will hold that amount until I am happy. Will try a complaint letter listing all items I am unhappy with including photos etc. If he claims to be a landscaper I suppose he knows he delivered a bad job and tries to get out of that, if he seriously believes it is a professional result he needs an "eye opener" and I consider to get a real pro in who confirms again all my doubts and your opinions and finishes the job if required. Cheers, Chris Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 11Sep 17, 2013 6:18 am Playing upset and telling me I would obviously never be happy with his work the "landscaper" accepted the termination of the contract without any further payment from my side. Alternatively I offered him to involve Consumer Affairs which would probably force him to rectify everything to a professional level within a reasonable time. I guess he knew he possibly would fail again. Lesson learnt. I suppose I will spend most likely now more than the outstanding $2300 to find someone to fix that job Next time I'll specify even that the wheel is round and both (trades person and me) sign that agreement as someone suggested. My bad, I should have requested some contact details of previous clients before. Can someone detail what is the typical progress of payments with those smaller jobs? My case was: 10% deposit 40% after commencing work 50% at completion Should it be better (as I believed for a while the guy did a runner after receiving half the money) or is it unusual: 10% deposit 40% after most/all material is delivered to site 50% at completion Regards, Chris Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 12Sep 17, 2013 10:09 am Sounds like he was in over his head and found out half way through he didn't quite have the skills he thought he did. At least he did the honourable thing and terminated the contract. There are plenty of aholes out there who would have claimed the job was acceptable and pressured you for the money. Re: Landscaper about to finish his paving work. Acceptable? 13Oct 08, 2013 9:57 pm Wow as a landscape contractor, this is an embarrassing piece of work. Even the Haunch is inadequate. Just to answer your question on material thicknesses etc. There are 2 standard paving installations - Rigid & Flexible. Rigid 100mm minimum reinforced concrete slab 50mm Maximum sand cement mortar mix We also have a very particular cement paste and technique Grout Joints and clean and seal pavers Flexible(Pedestrian) excavate area and compact with vibrating plate compactor Import roadbase 75mm min and compact again Test compaction rate Import 25mm course washed riv sand (Important for concrete pavers as limits efflorescence) Lay pavers and fill joints with gap sand then compact (With carpet on you compactor so as not to damage pavers Re fill joints and compact again Clean and seal pavers Being concrete pavers, the white mark are efflorescence, google this to research as it is an in depth subject. Sinking in the middle is no good as water will not only pool there but leach down into the bedding layer and cause further damage/sinkage and (Efflorescence) The lines are terrible and stains all over pavers, he should have covered the job and sealed at the end to protect or at least inform you that you would need to seal. Better stop now....... "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 24071 Unless there were unforeseeable issues with the site, I dont think you should have to pay for contractors errors or poor planning. I'd probably try and be reasonable and… 5 4608 Hi, Wondering anyone has any recommendation of good landscaper for new home in southern Sydney? My land is a bit sloppy down need a good design. Thanks. 0 2046 |