Hardscrabble Stone and Landscaping

Mikes crew did a fantastic job rebuilding an old stone wall, steps and walkway. It is a work of art! It improved the safety and looks of our property. Very professional crew.

Mike and his crew built 2 retaining walls for me and lined the whole driveway with the wall at my place in Orland and it’s beautiful. They also cleared a site for our garage and finished the ditches with rip rap and it couldn’t have been done any better. They also built a patio with a sitting wall with built in lights and redid our walkway and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Finally, they also did our septic and leachfield a few years back and they did a great job! I should have done a review for each one of these projects and I would have given them 5 stars every time. I highly recommend Hardscrabble and wish I had more pics!

I originally called for a simple stone/gravel delivery to fill in some low spots in our driveway. We ordered 16 yards for a total of $425. We recieved maybe 10 yards (I plan to go out tomorrow to measure to get a more exact number to report but have been super busy). For those of you who don’t know how much a yard is…it is equivalent to a 3’ x 3’ x 3’ cube. We have voiced our complaints to the business to allow them to correct the problem but we received nothing but deflections and finger pointing. If a company is willing to shaft you on a couple yards of dirt, they will do worse on larger jobs and I am just thankful we did not contract them for any of the larger jobs we have planned for the future. Buyers beware. Pictures below are what was delivered. This is not 16 yards of dirt as the owner Mike states.

I bought a yard of loam last month and while we were unloading it, we were finding a lot of different colored glass, large rocks and tree roots. Over a 5gal. bucket full. Yesterday, we went to spread grass seed and when ruffing up the soil we are still finding more pieces of glass (photo). We have dogs and and my wife is barefoot a lot. I called Hardscrabble, and the next day a lady called me back to tell me she didn’t find any evidence of glass in the dirt, then said; So, what is it you want?! I took it as, she felt I was lying and wanted something for nothing. I excepted nothing, I wanted nothing. I told her I wanted her to know what we found in her dirt so they didn’t use it for a lawn somewhere. She didn’t seam like she cared.

We hired Mike and son to do the initial site work on our lot which included a gravel driveway, house site clearing and septic system installation. Mike is very responsive and professional, clear about the costs, does what he says and shows up! The job was completed quickly and we are very pleased with the results. I would definitely use this company again.