Northshore Hardscapes Inc

Do not hire this company! Bad workers and wrong attitude in snow cleaning and landscaping

I wish we had read the other reviews before re-hiring Luke because we had the exact same terrible experience as others shared here. Luke did 2 other jobs for us and we were happy; he was personable and did a good job for a competitive price. However, when we re-hired him a third time for a bigger job, they came, ripped up our driveway, did about 10% of the work, and then completely disappeared. We phoned, texted, pleaded.... nothing. Luke completely ghosted us. We kept reaching out and waited over a month refusing to believe that he would screw us like this. In the end he never replied, which is gross and unprofessional. We ended up hiring a different company that ultimately did an amazing job for us, but this was after several months of angst and stress and lost investment.

I hired Luke to install a pool in my house. I didnt see $45k and him again. This is the a recent pic of my yard. Ill see Luke in court. Warning: do not do business with this company. This is the present condition of my yard.

We met Loukas the head of Northshore Landscapes in 2016 and he did good work for us in our backyard for an extensive stone work hardscape. He was also very personable and helpful with suggestions. That is why we hired him the following year in 2017 to continue the stone work in our driveway ( concrete and stone). Loukas was once again very helpful, especially when his guys made a mistake during the job. He got them to fix the problem. However, the other problems arose a year after the stone work was done (with a 5 year warranty) several stones cracked and there was a drainage problem - water collected around our gate. Further, the driveway job (after only 1 winter and not even a full year) looked very shabby with cracks in the concrete along the entire driveway. Also, a stone at the foot of the driveway came loose from the grout. Further, all the grout became chipped – all less than a year later. Loukas came to take a look at the problem early spring 2018 and promised to fix everything. Ironically he expressed surprise when we pointed out it was only a year on that job - the conditions were that surprising. With the backyard stone work he agreed he would replace the 4 broken stones. With the drainage issue, he revealed that he should have placed the drain on the inside of the fence. His proposed fix was to put a second drain in the right spot and that would tie into the existing drain. He promised to fix everything as soon as possible and get us a quote on some of the material - we were willing to cover that side of things.

Then a couple of months passed by and we did not hear from him. We reached out once again. Nothing. My assistant called. My husband called. Nothing. We knew he was a busy guy with lots of new contracts and we liked him a lot so we let things slide. It was by October of 2018 that it dawned on us that Loukas was not coming back to do this work. I sent him an email saying how surprised we were and asking if he was coming to fix the problems. Nothing.

Winter came and went and we emailed him March 2019 detailing what he had committed to. No response. A follow up email alerted him that we would be reviewing his company negatively and possibly take court action. Nothing. I am shocked and saddened by this situation. It’s made worse because we recommended Northshore to neighbours who hired him (and they complained to us that while he was doing their job he went missing, etc). We defended him. They weren’t happy and we have lost some credibility with that neighbour. But at this point all we can say is that North Shore Hardscapes is not a trustworthy company. Some of the work was very good, but they were unwilling to fix shoddy work, regardless of warranties and personal commitment to fixing the problems. I would ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMEND Northscape because what was initially a positive experience has soured and we are left having to hire another company to fix all the problems with their work.

We have had a very frustrating experience with Luke and his business, North Shore Hardscapes - which remains unresolved.

We contracted Luke in the fall of 2017, and initially his crew did good work, including removing concrete from our pool area and putting in paving stones, new pool coping and tiling, and constructing a brand new fence.

The work was unfinished when the weather changed, so we all agreed he’d return and finish up in the spring. At that time, Luke also quoted us for some additional work in the spring, but when spring came around, he dodged our calls, ignored our text/email messages, and didn’t show up when he finally said he would.

And when he finally replied (after many weeks of silence), he asked us to re-send him the quote HE had given us for the new work back in the fall,. We did, and when he saw his OWN QUOTE, he responded with a simple, “are you joking?” and we never heard from him again.

We’ve followed up with dozens of voice mail messages and texts asking him to clarity, trying to resolve, but Luke continues to ignore us.

We’re now stuck with an unfinished wooden fence, a ‘safety’ gate that’s been improperly and ineptly installed, incomplete tile & coping grouting, and most frustratingly, an improperly “winterized” pool, which ended up costing us an additional $2,000 in repairs this spring, on top of everything else.

Luke promised us many times that we would be super happy with the work, and that he’d guarantee it for five years.

Now he won’t even return messages to address the unfinished work or explain what happened and why he abandoned the project.

He’s caused us a great deal of frustration, energy, time and money and we are EXTREMELY disappointed by the way he has conducted himself. We’ve waited and waited, giving him so many chances to do the right thing, not quite believing that he would actually bail on us in the end. We even gave him a heads-up that we felt compelled to leave this review, hoping he would care enough to finally explain himself and NOTHING.