My experience 😑
High cost work with little to no accountability.
You can count on them doubling the estimate every single time, and you have to keep on them just to make sure the work gets done.
Just had one set of subcontractors throw away material for other fixes… Lead group days that the ones involved are no longer a part of the project, so we’re on the hook for even more.
Thinking back, i have always been unhappy with the work done by a contractor. I’m not asking for much, painters paint an area, plumbers stop leaks, drywall dudes fix the water damage… And the job is always left with areas unpainted, pipes not connected, and holes in the drywall that were not there before.
Have you ever been happy with a contractors work? What did they do for you?
I never got the service myself, but there is a landscaping contractor out here that handles, like, most of every landscaped property that isn’t a city park and they are just awful at pretty much every aspect of landscaping. They don’t know how to trim anything, they constsntly kill perfectly thriving plants, and the MOMENT anything with flowers bloom, they lop off all the flowers.
I’ve seen the high school’s ornamental horticulture class do better work.
Honestly, I’d be inclined to hire the high school’s ornamental horticulture class.
In general, I feel like students/recent grads might be the best way to get somebody who’s at least trying to do a good job, for a good price, at the cost of a higher chance of a genuine mistake due to inexperience rather than apathy.
That’s not uncommon. Especially large companies. They might have a plant nerd who started the company or who does designs but for the rest of it, it’s just checkboxes.