Green Blades VA Inc
Mill, Alexandria, VA

Green Blades VA Inc Reviews

3.2 stars based on 9 reviews

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  Sam Burkes

  1.0

  Green Blades is a small company my wife and I used to plant trees for privacy. I was indifferent about needing the trees so my wife handled the project. She contacted the owner of the company, Spiro, and he agreed to accept the project. This is a local, small business that is literally within a half mile from our home. The means of contact with this company was always to Spiro's cell phone which is weird because he NEVER answers it and rarely responds to voice messages. Well, Spiro sent his team over with 5 foot trees that came from a local nursery. The nursery is about a mile from our home. We would later find out the trees cost $110, Spiro charged us $180 per tree and we planted 8 of them. The instructions from us were simple and to plant the trees in a straight line, perpendicular from the front of our fence, and evenly spaced. As soon as my wife walked away from them and left the house, I thought it'd be best I kept an eye on them. I admittedly noticed a lot of chatter from them as if they were confused. I walked over to check on the holes they were digging and noticed they were not that deep and not in a straight line. I told them to stop and explained what should be happening but was told my wife wanted the trees as they were laying them out. After explaining this to them, they told me they would always return to move the trees to wherever we wanted them as long as it was before the roots settled or the ground freezes over. Well, they planted the trees very shallow, they were not in a straight line perpendicular to our fence, and the spacing was terrible. Trees were leaning over because the wind would blow them over. My wife tried for two weeks to get Spiro to come back and he ignored her. She asked me to take over so I did and he responded once, by text, stating he was still taking us but they were so busy. He said they would put us on the schedule. I waited two more weeks and nothing, not even a message to say when we were on the schedule. I tried reaching out to him via text to his cell phone, left a message on his cell phone and at his website. We did not hear back from him. He totally just ignored us. He actually would pass our house to go pick up leaves for our neighbors, but luckily we live in a pretty close neighborhood and we share info all the time. We've since found a plethora of complaints about this company. His business plan is severely flawed. I'm certain he has a lot of work due to people requesting to do more projects in this COVID era, but there will come a time when we will move beyond this and the customer experience will prove vital. I was very close to driving to his office, but I noticed the business address was to his parent's house just up the street from us. I was not comfortable going to their home so I figured I'd let as many people as I can know about this via social media. I'll try to post pictures of his work here. Just be cautious if you use him or stay on him and his crew when they are at your location in order to get exactly what you want. Don't let them leave.

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  Sabrena Banford

  1.0

  Had this company come to put a French drain in 2 years ago. It worked well for about a year. Over the last year we have gotten more and more standing water in our backyard and over the summer I noticed one of the downspouts was loose and just directing water straight to my basement. Asked them to come by to look at it. Someone came by and noticed rocks in the drain, said it was probably broken and would get it fixed ASAP. Didn't come back. Have contacted them every few weeks for the last 6 months. My husband wrote a review which then got a response to come and look at the drain but only addressed one side of the house, not the side that looks like it has broken, and not the downspout. Have texted multiple times and called. Initially got responses like "we haven't forgot about you" but now I get no responses and my backyard is turning into a mud pit.

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  Nick Pieces

  1.0

  Most frustrating experience ever. Had them redo my yard with sod and they used two different types and went brown at different times and looked terrible. Instructions were never conveyed to the workers and what was agreed too was never done. Worst follow through, high prices, and the crews don't seem to care what the quality of the work is. Had to call multiple times to get them to show up to perform work they already agreed to. Terrible company and management.

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