Southern Boys Lawn Care & Excavating
River, Kodak, TN

Southern Boys Lawn Care & Excavating Reviews

3.6 stars based on 17 reviews

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  chris Bogacz

  1.0

  It pains me to write this negative review, as I really liked these guys. We hired Southern Boys Lawn Care to build us a driveway up a property we own outside of Pigeon Forge. When I meet with them initially, they were prompt and appeared to be well educated on the properties topography. I was mostly happy with the work originally done, although the driveway was much much steeper than originally discussed. My main concern was drainage. I kept asking where will the water go. I inquired many times should we add a ditch or pitch the drive to shed water. One of the owners was incredibly adamant that we do not need a ditch as the mountain will shed the water. I was skeptical but the man was very confident and they had been responsive so I figured we’ll see how it goes. After each rain we had more and more wash out, but we were promised by the other owner “we got you”. He even said this is good, nature is showing us what needs to be fixed. He admitted that he was upset with his partners work and that he would take care of it. There was lots of additional work to be done at the property, and I truly liked the owners so we hired the Southern Boys to build us a parking spot for our tiny home. I waited around a month to finally get scheduled for this work to be completed. The night prior the other owner reached out and said I was informed you had some washout and I’ll be there to fix it. My wife and I took a couple of days off from work and drove down 8 hrs to be there for the work and to pay for the additional job to be completed. To our surprise we were not only stood up but seemingly blocked from calling both owners. It’s now been a couple of weeks and we have still not heard from them and presumably will not. I have had a couple of local and very experienced excavation company’s in the area assess the driveway and both were concerned with the lack of drainage. Even in a small area where there is a ditch the water doesn’t flow to it as the driveway is not slopped towards it. This is not a case of regular maintenance and asphalt will eventually suffer the same fate as the gravel. There were trees left standing on the bank above the drive with roots half exposed. One of the owners again very confidently said this will help stabilize the bank. I have attached photos of the washed out driveway do to improper slope/grading, unsloaped banks, and one of the trees trying it’s hardest to stabilize the bank with half its roots exposed.

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  rod dillman

  1.0

  We hired these guys to install a retaining wall on our driveway. We were impressed by their work until it rained and then found that the retaining wall did not do it's job. A lot of water and dirt came seeping through. We contacted Josh about the issue. We tried to contact him on several occasions but no response. We sent pictures of the wall to him, we tried calling him several times but he blocked our phone. I thought we were acting in good faith and can't understand what their problem is. Based on our experience, we in no way can recommend these guys .

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  Response from the owner

  We did do exactly what you hired us for. We built a wall that you were very happy with. The wall was filled with gravel and back filled with gravel and even has a french drain installed behind it. With a wall fully filled with stone i fail to see how lots of dirt can come thru it. Its a 3 block high landscaping wall. We have pictures showing it being fully installed correctly and showing all the gravel back filled behind it like should be done and is done by most all companies. Im sorry you was unhappy that we did not have avalible time to do more landscaping but slandering a company is not any way to do buisness. Josh dose not have you blocked and if you wish to send pictures showing all this mud washing thru we are happy to come look at the wall as we warranty our walls for 6 months from failing. We also have a company number listed here on google that is not joshes cell. You could have called and left a voicemail and someone would have retured your call. Thanks and have a wonderful day.

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  Jason Boyd

  5.0

  Me and my wife hired southern boys to come in and demolish our recently badly burned up home. From day one they were prompt from the first phone conversation through the last min of the job they were men of their word they did exactly what they said they would do. They came in and demolished the home, cleared the lot and dug new footers for our house. If you are in the market for a honest hardworking company these guys are the ones to call!

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