S&D Lawn Sevices
Pine, Lathrop, MO

S&D Lawn Sevices Reviews

2.5 stars based on 6 reviews

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  Lance Carter

  2.0

  S&D lawn services originally bid me $10,500 for a retaining wall. After the work was started, they ended up eventually billing me $15,288.91, which was almost $5,000 over (50% over) his initial bid. In addition to the retaining wall, I hired Scott to also dig out a water line, place some drain tile, plant grass at my house, and dig some trampoline holes. This was an additional charge of $4,828.26. The total we were billed for EVERYTHING was $20,617.17. The first complaint I have is the water line job. Not only did he place the line incorrectly/not deep enough, but he lied to me about it and changed his story multiple times once most of the 200 feet was already buried and he was caught. When I confronted Scott about the water line not being deep enough, he did not own up to the mistake. He first tried to say that it was no big deal because he could just put insulating wrap around it and it would be fine. He then tried to claim that the shallow water line was MY FAULT. He claimed that I told him to grade the property and shave a foot off the depth of my soil after the water line was placed. This claim is false, but even if it was true, HE SHOULD HAVE REFUSED to grade the property WITHOUT TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE RISKS because it would have made the water line too shallow. There is no way I would have consented to a grading job if I knew it was going to cause my water line to freeze. The second complaint I will mention is the rental equipment. Scott rented equipment for weeks at a time, and many days that equipment just sat on our property unused. He later complained about the equipment rental costs and that I needed to give more money to cover it. This is one main reason why I had to pay significantly over the initial bid. The third complaint I have has to do with S&D’s professionalism at times. Scott raised his voice at me multiple times over phone, and even hung up on my wife one day when she asked him to keep one of his appointments. He would commit to working on certain dates/times, would not show up, and would not communicate as to why he didn’t show. Lastly, I have concerns over the competence in this company if the scope of the work is beyond lawn and tree work. As mentioned above, he didn't put in the water line to code, but he also wasn't backfilling the wall correctly either. In both cases I had to have another contractor tell me how to fix the problem. I ended up paying Scott a total of $18,669.60, and not a single one of the projects that I paid him for was ever completed. After almost four months of waiting, I had to just pay other people to finish everything. It was an incredible loss of time and money for me.

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  Response from the owner

  Well I'm sorry you feel that way but like I told you in text before you want to lie you may read back threw your text messages and emails along with pictures and learn how to figure money before you blackmale somebody and slander them Not to mention theft of services and countless other things. Have a great day Mr Carter. Hope you can sleep at night knowing that you screw people out of money to get what you want.

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  Joy Marvin

  1.0

  Texted to have leaves removed, never showed. Texted to have snow removed, never showed. I texted after trying to call and They didn't answer. They apparently don't need business too badly.

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  Todd Campbell

  1.0

  Missed appointment. Then, did not return calls.

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  Response from the owner

  I apologize Mr. Campell I do Not Recall our conversation or appointment. If there is a way i could make this better for you please reach out to me at 816 351 1588. Have a great Day... Go Chiefs!!!!!!

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