Kanawi is Horrible never hire!!
Hired for concrete work. Retaining Wall, porch with overhang and entire driveway. Simple clean form work. No stamps.
Contractor failed in every way.
Didn't use agreed upon smooth forms throughout. Promised straight clean lines, Lines are crooked, driveway was supposed to be black with embedded color on truck, Ali informed it was when it wasn't. Put down black color hardener causing grey finish very blotchy, looks very bad. chips in concrete show color below. Large piece of concrete chipped off, ali attempted to patch with bagged concrete leaving green/grey patch on white concrete. Nails left in concrete from forming causing rust marks. Ignored agreed upon portions of work Let chips and cracked old concrete that was to be parged as agreed work. I have taken quotes and hired many contractors in my field of work. Alis price was decent, he provided a designer that did some renderings. And Ali was very likable, something that I, having experience never thought Id be taken by. Ali added 10% for a wall that was always required, was part of the original drawing and model we discussed. Before I agreed he went ahead and installed the foundation stating I need it but he could remove it if I didnt want to pay, so that was an extra 4k. The final product was not consistent with the plans I provided nor the rendering that was created. The work had to be stopped and restarted. The elevations were changed because of errors resulting in slope toward new concrete and towards house that should not have been. The concrete top of porch has an over hang I designed however its crooked making whole job look horrible and I called ali to see if I could get him to build a planter in front of slope to hide it, he tried to charge me 10k for a planter that I never wanted. Again, I really liked the owner of the company, trusted him he is very personable and I feel embarrassed, and taken advantage of without a thought. Msg me, Ill elaborate further and post the icing on cake is that my house is Black stucco, less than year old time of concrete work, ali did not properly mask and as result my entire frontage will have to be painted now. Who wants paint on brand new stucco. He refuse to fix it stating he would seal the driveway instead or nothing at all. Once your deposit is in you are done with this guy.
Dont do business with them. They sound good and then leave you with disaster.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $50,000.00