- Approximate cost of services:
- $12,000.00
Terraced hillside/new driveway/front door patio and walkway
Replacing driveway and path/steps to front porch
Dear Michael, We certainly understand the need for our clients to feel confident in their material choices. Homeowners face what can feel like an overwhelming wealth of options. It’s an important investment in their home and certainly makes a big visual impact. I have 40 years of experience which clients can lean on to make their decision. I was very glad to meet with you and your wife at the outdoor product display area of my supplier, Arnts The Landscape Supplier, which carries a vast selection of precast concrete and natural stone products from multiple manufacturers and wholesale distributors. Printed catalogues and online images, and even samples, do not necessarily provide the best sense of the product. We always recommend that our clients confirm their choices with an in-person look at the physical product on display. Thank you for taking the time to share your ALL-PRO Landscaping experience with the HomeStars community. All the best, Angelo
ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING & CARPENTRY LTD.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
Dear T., Thank-you for turning to ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry as your go-to team for transforming your property! Your new patio area for the gazebo creates another key feature for your family to enjoy. Looking forward to discussing ideas for R.’s barbecue area when you’re ready. We very much appreciate your review. Bye for now, Angelo
ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING & CARPENTRY LTD.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
Sod Replacement and Patio Construction
Dear C & V, Thank you for reaching out to us again last year - 12 years after our initial project for you back in 2011. This backyard project was more extensive, involving a brand new patio and about 1000 square feet of sod. But I think the crowning feature are the 160 linear feet of Antico Stacker borders/walls for V’s beautiful gardens! Wishing you many happy hours of gardening and relaxing in your lovely backyard. We are grateful for your review! All the best, Angelo
ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
Dear Kelly, Although proper grading may not be glamorous, it certainly is essential! We were very glad to have been able to integrate your project into our schedule so that the problem could be resolved as expeditiously as possible for you and your neighbour. Thank you for your kind review! Looking forward to working with you again in the future. All the best, Angelo
ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
New Deck and Backyard Better than we Imagined
Dear S & E, We really enjoyed collaborating with you on your backyard project! We completed your neighbours’ deck and interlock walkway in April 2008 – 16 years ago – so appreciate your testament here to the durability and quality of our work over time! And now your backyard is an equally safe and beautiful environment for your new family to enjoy! While we were transforming your backyard, you were home with your newborn. I think it’s fair to say that the entire team felt that we were essentially helping you to prepare for baby’s first steps in the great outdoors and their toddler years and beyond! Wishing you all the best, Angelo
ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
Backyard patio with wall and steps
Dear Mary Theresa, After completely landscaping your home in 2019 and 2022, we thought there would be nothing left for you to do. Imagine our surprise when you contacted us in 2023 regarding a backyard patio for a new home you had just purchased! Since it wasn’t a quick closing period, we were able to schedule construction to begin the day you took possession. We were happy to join you for your 1-hour property visit during the closing period. This enabled us to take measurements, formulate a plan, choose your materials, quote on and refine the plan, purchase your chosen interlock pavers and wall/coping units and store them in our company staging yard so that we’d be ready to start on your closing day. Thank you so much for this review and the previous two reviews of our projects at your former home. ENJOY! All the best, Angelo
ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING & CARPENTRY LTD.
(416) 281-7560
allprolandscaping@rogers.com
NOTE TO HOMESTARS READERS:
The following addresses are for Mary Theresa’s previous two reviews.
> https://homestars.com/companies/2783386-all-pro-landscaping-carpentry-ltd/reviews/1158387
> https://homestars.com/companies/2783386-all-pro-landscaping-carpentry-ltd/reviews/1072568
WELCOME to the ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING & CARPENTRY LTD. profile page on HomeStars! Thank you for taking the time to visit!
We also invite you to visit our PHOTOS galleries where you can "stroll through" more than 300 images organized into 24 ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING PROJECT TOURS.
In the meantime, here's a little bit about our history and the kind of work we do . . .
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CORE SERVICE AREA . . .
With our office in Highland Creek near the Scarborough-Pickering border, and our 3-acre staging yard situated in north Ajax, we concentrate on projects located in:
> PICKERING-AJAX-WHITBY, and
> the east/southeast neighbourhoods of Scarborough (e.g., HIGHLAND CREEK, PORT UNION, WEST ROUGE, ROUGE HILL, GUILDWOOD, THE BLUFFS).
Please click on the thumbnail image of ALL-PRO Landscaping's CORE SERVICE AREA MAP in the PHOTOS section of this page.
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OVER THE PAST 39 YEARS . . .
Over the past 39 years, ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd. has been designing and constructing beautiful, functional custom landscapes for more than a thousand clients who have entrusted Angelo Tersigni and his landscape construction team with their outdoor living spaces and home curb appeal.
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ABOUT US . . .
FOUNDED IN 1985 BY NICOLA TERSIGNI AND 21-YEAR-OLD SON ANGELO, ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd. specializes in working with clients to enhance the beauty and functionality of the landscape elements that complement and add to the enjoyment of their homes.
>> As sole owner and operator for the past 37 years, Angelo continues to honour the family values of integrity, diligence and quality that are at the very heart of ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd.; the company he founded with his father 39 years ago. Those values have stood the test of time and continue to translate into satisfied clients. And we are honoured that ALL-PRO is now being called upon by the next generation of our client families to help them with their projects. Angelo personally oversees each project from start to finish.
About 80 to 90 PER CENT of the projects we complete each year originate from:
1) previous clients who come back to us with ideas for new projects, and
2) homeowners referred directly to us by our clients (this doesn’t include HomeStars leads).
On average, ALL-PRO Landscaping has the capacity to commit to approximately 20 to 40 CLIENT PROJECTS EACH YEAR (depending on the scope of the projects).
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A FEW NOTES ABOUT QUOTATIONS . . .
Angelo personally handles quoting and sales. Hours of work are invested in a typical quotation. Rather than providing homeowners with a bulk dollar amount for the entire project, Angelo goes the extra mile by presenting a detailed, typed "contract specification sheet" that breaks the entire project into individual components that specify the materials/dimensions and pricing per component. The quote also specifies applicable warranty, HST and payment terms. Ultimately, for homeowners who choose to entrust their project to ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry, this quotation document evolves into the signed client contract, usually after a number of refinements to align more closely with the client's aesthetic and budget.
> At times during the season, Angelo may temporarily suspend quoting so that he can focus exclusively on current projects and on quotations already in hand.
In this scenario, our office manager invites homeowners to circle back to us at a later date if they are unable to find another contractor with whom they wish to proceed. She also compiles a waiting list of those homeowners who wish to meet with Angelo when he begins quoting again.
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IS ALL-PRO LANDSCAPING A GOOD FIT FOR YOUR PROJECT?
During the peak spring/summer period, we receive approximately 20 to 30 quotation requests PER WEEK, sometimes more.
Many of these we need to decline for a variety of reasons. For example, the project site is outside our core service area, or our schedule is already booked during the homeowners’ desired completion timeframe, or the project is not the kind of work we do.
When non-client homeowners reach out to ALL-PRO Landscaping to request a quotation, we are very grateful. We also respect their time and want to ensure that we are a good fit for their projects. So our office manager will ask a few questions before including their information on Angelo’s quotation request call-back spreadsheet . . .
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Q1. WHERE ARE YOU LOCATED?
Each year, we must decline many quotation requests from homeowners located outside our service area.
Please refer to the “CORE SERVICE AREA” note, above.
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Q2. DO YOU HAVE A PROJECT COMPLETION DEADLINE THAT YOU NEED TO MEET?
Some homeowners are working towards a particular project completion deadline such as the date of a backyard wedding or the arrival of visitors from overseas.
> This is important for us to know up front, because the homeowner's desired time frame may no longer be available on our schedule.
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Q3. HOW MANY QUOTATIONS ARE YOU OBTAINING?
Conventional wisdom usually concurs that obtaining two or three quotations is prudent for homeowners who do not yet have an established relationship with a trusted contractor.
We respectfully decline to meet with homeowners who are obtaining more than three quotations.
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Q4. WHAT KIND OF WORK WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE DONE?
We focus on "HARDSCAPE" construction projects, such as:
=> patios, walkways, steps, porches, garden walls, retaining walls, driveway borders/driveways constructed with precast concrete products and natural stone products.
=> decks constructed with pressure-treated, cedar and composite decking products.
For hardscape projects, we can also incorporate the following:
=> sod, mulch, triplemix, riverstone, ornamental rockery.
=> synthetic grass (usually Rymar Durablade 95 S-Shaped Synthetic Grass).
=> fence and gate structures, constructed with with cedar, pressure-treated or composite materials, as well as custom-ordered ornamental iron fencing from Medallion Fence.
We do NOT install the following:
=> Asphalt. We refer our clients to two trusted companies.
=> Stamped/patterned concrete.
=> Extensive plantings. While we can certainly do some planting of trees and shrubs as part of our hardscape projects, we refer our clients to trusted horticultural technician-designers for extensive garden design.
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Q5. WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF YOUR PROJECT?
The HomeStars company PROFILE format includes a field for “PROJECT MINIMUM”.
> For prospective clients, we have set $5,000 as the minimum.
> For our previous clients, of course we are glad to come back to help with any landscape construction job, no matter how small.
> We appreciate that some homeowners may be unable to gauge whether or not their project would be above the $5,000 minimum threshold. Our office manager might be able to help with this when you describe the kind of work you would like to have done.
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MEETING WITH ANGELO . . .
Angelo's QUOTATION REQUEST CALL-BACK LIST is updated by the office manager. On that spreadsheet, each request she enters is tracked by initial date of inquiry.
> CALL-BACK TIMEFRAME: During the construction season, Angelo strives to touch base with homeowners within two weeks of the date of their initial inquiry logged on the Quotation Request List (unless he had already placed a temporary hold on quoting before the inquiry was received).
> MEETING TIMEFRAME: During the construction season, Angelo does his best to integrate quotation meetings into his existing project work schedule. Client work always takes priority for him — something which prospective clients are sure to appreciate. During the offseason from approx. December through March, Angelo does quite a bit of quoting for the upcoming season, weather permitting.
During the peak season, Angelo combines jobsite work with sales, scheduling, purchasing, transportation, HR, client relations and other aspects of the business. He is at the jobsites daily. Multiple projects are usually under way. Clients deal with Angelo directly on anything pertaining to their projects. He manages the project schedule, calculates and places the orders for project materials and determines crew member assignments each day in consultation with his onsite Team leader, Dan. His Class AR driver's licence also enables him to minimize production disruptions by serving as the supply lifeline for the jobsites: delivering materials from manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers (paving stones, flagstone, wall systems, steps, boulders, rockery, gravel, screenings, lumber, fencing, topsoil, triplemix, sod, etc.), transporting equipment and materials between jobsites and ALL-PRO’s staging yard in north Ajax, and hauling project debris to transfer stations, for example. He integrates quotations into this schedule.
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LANDSCAPE ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES ASSOCIATION (LO) / CANADIAN NURSERY LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION (CNLA) . . .
ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd. is a proud member of Landscape Ontario and the CNLA. We can be found on the Landscape Ontario web site at:
https://landscapeontario.com/member/all-pro-landscaping-carpentry-ltd
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BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU (BBB) . . .
ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd. is a member of the BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU (BBB) with A+ rating. Review our page on the BBB web site at:
http://www.bbb.org/kitchener/business-reviews/landscape-contractors/all-pro-landscaping-and-carpentry-ltd-in-scarborough-on-1235758
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At ALL-PRO Landscaping & Carpentry Ltd., we take pride in our work. If you are looking for a Landscape construction team that is honest and reliable, uses quality materials, and will meet your needs and exceed your expectations, contact us today. We look forward to hearing from you at (416) 281-7560.
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