AC Concrete Demolished our driveway and left the slabs which represented a hazard for two weeks in front of our house. Our sidewalk also got damaged.
After a few unreturned phone calls, we wrote an email notifying that we no longer want to continue working with AC Concrete as the project was urgent and that we need to move on. The owner showed up at our house and told us that he already ordered concrete for us that will arrive in a couple of days. After we told him we no longer would like to continue working with him after he left a hazard on our driveway for such a long time, damaged the sidewalk for which he told us it was not him and no communication, he said that never in his 26 years of experience his project was stopped in the middle.
He refused to remove the concrete that was sitting in the front of our garage and said he will not leave until we pay him $2500 for demolishing the concrete. He got aggressive and said he is "fed up" with us and he "won't touch" the pile of concrete he left behind himself. He said it costs $5 per one square foot to demolish the concrete for 500 square foot that he worked on and we trusted that we needed to pay at least for this job and hire someone else to pour the concrete. However, the 3 big slabs were left untouched and he said until he sees the money he is not touching anything.
We paid him $2500 by e-transfer. After he left, we inquired with another contractor and he said to finish demolishing the concrete and removing it from site will cost us another $1800 because as it turned out concrete slabs were still attached to the house and two to the ground and had to be removed, that the pieces had to be broken into much smaller ones in order to be able to lift them and haul them away. We paid another $1800.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $2,500.00