I do not recommend using this company. I hired the Portuguese Brothers Concrete company to lay two pads at my home, and if this project had been successful, it would have awarded them two driveways, a garage floor and quite possibly a third driveway. However, I feel fortunate that I started with a small project first to gauge the quality of the company. To start, they did not follow through with what they said about the thickness of the stone base or the thickness of the cement. When I questioned the owner the day of the cement pour about the depth of the pad, he became defensive and obstinate regarding my concerns. The ground was not level, which no doubt accounts for the pooling of water in one corner of the main pad. I got a stamped border around the main pad, which was supposed to be a solid colour, but for some reason that was never explained to me, there are dark blue-grey marks all through the border that are not consistent, so it's not part of the pattern. There was also a lack of communication on the part of the company as far as how to care for the job when finished, what direction I wanted the main pad to be graded and so forth. Further to all this, my property was left in a terrible state. Nothing was cleaned up as promised and garbage was left around after they finished. I was upfront with them from the beginning about the future potential if this project had gone well, yet everything I just explained is how the project unfolded. The Portuguese Brothers Concrete will be losing out on significant projects in the near future, that I would have endorsed if they just did what they said they would do, so in my opinion, this says a lot about the company. This was a very disappointing experience and therefore I don't recommend using this company.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $4,500.00