I hired Dutchstyle to replace cracked cement stairs and cement surrounding my old Victorian house house in downtown Toronto. Jon was a great guy and persuasive, but the workers who did the work created a number of problems that resulted in basement leaks in three places, as well as leaving a cracked cement stair riser and roughly cut an old cement support to the porch that looks terrible. Unfortunately I paid them in full and, although I sent photographs to show Jon what was unfinished, I haven't heard back from him since June. I have since paid to install a professional window well to fix one leak, and it looks like I will have to hire other stoneworkers to fix the other two problems. One is a 1-inch lip that causes water to pool at the side of the house and seep into the basement, the other a 12" square that was just filled with polysand. Jon has never returned since giving me the quote, nor has he returned to inspect the work. So he may be great with really big $500K jobs or those in suburbs, but not for downtown. I paid $10,000 job for @200 square feet which I think is more than reasonable. The stone that was laid looks good, but it also left me with serious problems and I now have to hire others to fix them.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $10,000.00