Donna Ing in North york

On September, 2009, my neighbour, who works with Diego at Nissena Paving on Saturdays, was scheduled to have his driveway paved on Sept. 19/2009 and said if I got my driveway completely excavated and paved at the same time and paid cash, I could get a deal. So, after Diego promised not to screw up our driveway like the last pavers did and would do the job properly and that he does jobs for the City, I went ahead and got it done for $2,940 including GST. Diego also said we didn’t need a permit, which I found out later that we did. However, only months later in the Spring, 2010, crabgrass started growing, sprouting through and cracking the foundation all over. Because our neighbor works with him, we were patient when we were told that he was too busy to fix it right now, thinking that as long as he fixes it, we could wait a bit longer. We followed up again with Diego in June and then again in August, but to no avail. At this point, we were starting to worry that we had been duped. In September, after more phone calls to Diego, he responded with an offer to “burn off” the grass claiming that there was “nothing wrong with his material”. I told him that his “band-aid” solution wouldn’t solve this problem, that we hired him for his professional expertise which included preparing the driveway properly prior to paving, that we’ve been waiting patiently for 7 months for him to do something and that the driveway has gotten progressively worse in the meantime. At that point, Diego promised to solve the problem within 2 weeks. It’s now Nov. 6/2010 (6 weeks later) and he still has not redone the driveway nor returned any of my subsequent telephone calls. Diego and Nissena Paving took our money, did a shoddy job and ran away. We were taken advantage of and treated poorly. I have no choice but to voice my concerns here!