Paramount Landscaping

In September last year, I hired Paramount to build a deck, fire pit seating area and a small patio. I was looking for something quaint and inviting but was having a hard time explaining what my wife and I were looking for. Jeff sketched a design at our kitchen table that worked perfectly with us. The team showed up 2 weeks later and installed the project in just under a week, we were ecstatic how he walked through the project each day with us explaining what would be next and so on. It was so exciting we could not wait to get home from work each day to see the progress. Our neighbour's could not believe how courteous and clean Jeff's team was concerning the project, every day the site was spotless. This was very important to us since we are fairly new on the street and wanted to make a good impression. The project finished on a Friday afternoon and my wife and I came home to a note and a bottle of wine on our new patio that said " I hope you have as much fun in your new backyard as I did building it, enjoy the Wine. See you Monday to finalize the project"

Outstanding vision, customer service extraordinaire, quality perfection. Thanks Jeff and Paramount for the great experience.

Hire them you can't go wrong.

I hired Paramount to look after 5 properties including my own. After doing the wrong property the first week, some work was done adequately but much of the work (weeding, edging, turning beds, trimming of shrubs) was never done. I complained and saw some improvement for a time. I watched one guy sit on his knees and do a bed for 5 minutes, then get back in the truck and leave. Now they want to take me to court. I look forward to showing a judge the photos of the work that was never done. NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL. Addendum: The comments provided in response are simply not true - just another indication of how unprofessional these people are. My previous landscaper was paid because he did the work he was hired to do. I only changed because I wanted additional services that he was not able to provide. Unfortunately Paramount did not do these either and now wants to be paid even though the work was not done.

Joe and his crew did a magnificent job on our project. His team was very courteous and professional. The project turned out better then we had imagined and were very happy with the changes Joe made in our landscape design we had created with another company. It was nice to see a crew take such good care of our property while on site, it was cleaned up each night and we never had any obstructions on the property in the 14 days. We look forward to working with them next year on the front yard.

Call me a lazy consumer but I must admit I don't normally come on and rate companies on internet sites when they have performed an exceptional service for me. I usually tell the workers, supervisors, friends and family and on occasion email the owners to report my happiness. I find that reviews online are mainly for drama queens to take out frustrations on businesses because of a misunderstanding or the impossibility to make some people happy. I work for a large service industry company and see this on a weekly basis where the team I oversee can perform the same perfection day in and day out but once in a while we get a customer that is impossible to make happy. Paramount Landscaping has been taking care of my properties for over 7 years now and I could not ask for a better company. I have had many projects done for me and my families over the years and have never had a problem with the crews or the owner. Doug has always been reachable, accommodating and fair. There is many properties in my neighbourhood that Doug and his teams take care of by my house and I know right away which properties they do because of the care that goes into their service they provide. There staff is well educated whether it be Joe (Paramount's construction foreman), he knows everything about construction and has built two gorgeous backyards for us in the last 3 years at two different houses, or his Maintenance staff that take care of my house and place of work for the last decade.

These days you get what you pay for and in the service industry it is hard to only offer one service level to your customers. I have never bartered with them and always received a fair price and a great job.

Hats Off to Paramount Landscaping

I hired Paramount Landscape Company in the summer of 2013 for minor lawn care services. I never saw anyone for the first month and when I called I was always given the run around by the office staff and the owner Doug. I found him to be very rude. I feel that this company is very disorganized and be aware that if you hire them you may not get what you pay for in fact they might not even show up!

I contracted with Paramount Landscaping to aerate, top-dress, and overseed my front lawn for a price of $467.14 ($413.40 + HST). The contract was signed and full amount paid April 12, 2012. (The cheque #225 cleared my bank on April 16.)
No one came to the property until May 14, when two men from another company arrived at about 4:30pm. (Apparently Paramount had sub-contracted to a third party.) One of the men went over the whole lawn with the aerator. The other hand shovelled top soil onto some small damaged patches along the property line (left over from sewer repairs next door), but 95% of the lawn got no top-soil. Then this second man pushed a spreader around the lawn with grass seed. They finished, loaded the spreader and aerator back in their trucks and left by 5pm.
The aeration and overseeding we asked for were done satisfactorily, as was the patch repair (which we hadn't asked for), but the top-dressing was not done at all except for the repaired patches. (Top dressing is the process of applying a thin layer -1/2" to 1" - of topsoil and/or compost over the lawn, and raking it into the existing grass.)
No one from Paramount was present during the work, nor did anyone from Paramount inspect the work afterwards.
I assumed this was a mis-communication between Paramount and this third party sub-contractor -and called Paramount right away. (My contact at Paramount was Jeff, Sales Manager.) He promised to talk to "his operations person" and get back to me, but didn't call back After a couple of days I called him again, and we repeated this pattern for several weeks: I call, he promises to look into it with the operations manager and get back to me, he doesn't call back, I call again, et cetera.
Jeff did stop by after a few calls to look at the lawn, and agreed that there had been no topsoil spread. At no point did the operations manager inspect the subcontracted work, despite my repeated requests he do so.
So I paid over $450 for half an hour's work by two men, plus about $20 worth of seed & soil, and the primary part of the job we contracted for was never done at all.

UPDATE after Paramount's reply: Note that it took Paramount over two years to reply to my review (August 2013 to September 2015). Perhaps if they had returned my repeated phone calls two years ago, we could have avoided the review entirely. The facts they quote are wrong: The lawn is not 5000 sq. ft. as they claim, but just under 1200 sq. ft. (they only were contracted for the front lawn, and never went into the back). Again, had anyone from Paramount actually been here, they might have noticed the difference in size. And as someone who has had a lawn for many years, I know the difference between Top Dressing and Over-Seeding. (I have a spreader and overseed myself on a regular basis.) The contract was done after long discussion with Paramount's sale man and I specified exactly what I wanted. If it should have cost 4x as much, he should have quoted 4x as much. (Although given that my lawn is only 1/4 the size Paramount claims, I'd guess he did quote correctly.)
This is the only negative review of a tradesman I've eve left, but my rating of zero stands.

We hired Paramount Landscaping in late May to complete an overhaul of our backyard. When we booked with Joe he gave us a date of June 24th 2013, which was roughly a month. We had a bunch of rain while we waited for the date to arrive which I figured was going to set back the project. They arrived within 2 days of the projected date and started the project. The backyard was expected to take about 14 days and even with two rain days during the two weeks they managed to finish in 12 days.

The process was flawless in our eyes and we are very happy with the outcome of the backyard, so much so that we have booked them for our front yard in September and our best friends have booked them in this month for a large retaining wall.

Everything we were offered was given with honesty and professionalism which is what we were looking for in a company for this project. Thank you guys for all the hard work in the hot stubborn weather, you did a magnificent job.

Joan

I don't usually write reviews on sites but I came across the reviews on our Property Maintenance company on a recent search and thought I would put in my 2 cents. We have had Paramount take care of our condo for many years now in the Burlington area and have always been extremely happy with the service. Our property is a highend condo community in Burlington made up of mostly retired residences and seniors. Rarely but at times we have had concerns brought forward to the Paramount team over the years and they are always very polite and courtious when it comes to fixing the problem or explaining the situation. Our property's landscape budget year round is over 60,000.00 dollars and their teams earn every penny as far as I'm concerned. I've seen them work hard in the dead of heat and the cold of a blizzard and they have never let us down.

Guys keep up the hard work, there are people that appreciate you. Your dedication shows why you are voted #1 in Burlington, 4 years running in two categories 9 Landscape company and Lawn Care company. You have my vote and obviously many others in the area.

Your fan,

Christine