Residential Concrete Works

Stay away from this company unless you want a half done rushed job with concrete cracking within months. Lino is the head of the company and employs a large team — including some of his young children. He will squeeze in 3 – 4 jobs in one day leaving little to no time for yours. We used him for colored and stamped concrete. He may be the cheapest but you will pay for it in the end when you have to fix his work or re-​do all your concrete.
He promised us many things that he then never did and lied directly to us.
1. Lino promised to use gravel and wire mesh under concrete to prevent cracking and just threw down a few pieces of metal
2. Our contract specified a 4 in pour and for our hot tub pad a 6 in pour — he promised he would bring in a machine to dig out the ground and could make the cement level with the grass — he did none of that. He refused to spend any time digging out the dirt at all and when we argued about it he threatened to leave. He then agreed to go 1 inch deeper but then instead of actually digging our an inch he ended up just pouring our pads 1 – 2 inches thinner — in the end our concrete was 2 – 3 inches thick in most places including the hot tub pad! (TWO MONTHS LATER THERE IS ALREADY TWO BIG CRACKS IN OUR CONCRETE!!!)
3. He refused to cover the concrete after pouring it despite the forecasted heavy rain even after I argued with him about it. He stated it’s okay if it rains lightly on it — that day it poured and our whole side walk has flaking and spots in it from the heavy rain damage which is now permanent and likely the concrete is weaker. (basically he was in a rush to get to another job and didn’t want to do it — we talked to another person whose concrete he did and he did cover theirs)
4. He never gave us color or pattern choices prior to showing up that day and then told us we had 10 minutes to decide. He also didn’t explain how the coloring works — I learned later you can use a few different powders to get a better more realistic look
5. He over-​poured many of the sides so that big chunks of concrete came out into out grass or flower beds — he would have left it until we demanded he use a saw to remove it
6. He failed to show up on the day scheduled and when we finally got ahold of him he told us he had to reschedule.
7. He came to seal the concrete at dusk and we could barely see what he was doing — the next day we found many areas that were missing sealer or where there were large drip pours of it which are now permanent
8. He told us we could walk on the sealed concrete within 6 hours — which left some permanent marks — it didn’t actually dry for over 24 hours
9. He quoted use a larger surface area than he poured and only reduces the price after I brought it up after I hand measured the whole thing
10. They spattered concrete all over our brick house and garage and didn’t clean it off
11. They concreted above and up onto our stucco wall to get the right slop instead of digging out the dirt below
12. They didn’t put any separator between the concrete and our stucco garage wall — we plan to try to seal the crack ourselves to prevent water damage and cracking
13. They poured concrete over an electrical access box on a wall so that it wouldn’t be accessible — when I had them try to fix it they couldn’t because it would mean changing the slope — which they hadn’t calculated — so instead he made the area into a bowl which now just collects water and brings it towards our garage foundation every time it rains. — we plan to try to repour concrete in the hole ourselves but it will never match.
14. The lines of a straight sidewalk were not straight — I had to be on top of them correcting them constantly. They failed to move a rock that was in the way (which would have been easy to move) and it left a big indent into the side of the straight sidewalk edge.
15. The stamped concrete lines were rushed and very poorly done — we had him come back with a saw to try to fix some — he literally just missed many of the lines. The saw lines didn’t liik the same as the original stamp.