driveway contractor

moneyjunkie

Hi folks,
Can anybody recommend a good and reliable (and fairly reasonable ) driveway contractor in the Barry / Cardiff area ? Im looking at patterned concrete or tarmac ! Any advice would be a big help !
Thanks
Moneyjunkie

bobdauilda

let me know if you find one please!!

cardiff-creature

i know a great brickie who does driveways. if interested email me on nikkilou71@msn.com. he is based in bridgend but i live in cardiff and he did mine a cpl of years ago and i have had no probs.

Backbiter

Had a bad experience with a firm based in Corntown, nr Bridgend - one that does patterned concrete drives (cobbles etc). Strangely, a bloke I bought a car off not long after had used the same firm, and had a very similar bad experience.

moneyjunkie

thanks backbiter,
i think we're getting a quote off him tomorrow ! is the company name 'presscrete'? was his name Tony Goodfellow? How bad was it? what did they do ?
Thanks again
moneyjunkie

Backbiter

That's the firm and the chap. Just to go over what I remember:
a) Had two quotes from him in less than a year - second was £1300 higher than the original (which I'd kept and used to drive the price down). His price went up from £2200 to £3500!
b) He concreted over the water main
c) He concreted over the stop tap
d) He never finished the job, leaving an unsightly unfinished part where the drive met the patio
e) He ignored the constant phone calls I made trying to get him to finish it
f) I decided against him taking the concrete alongside the garage (can't think why), but he refused to knock anything off the price, despite me saving him at least half a day's work
Stupidly I gave up and let him get away with truly shocking customer service.

The chap who sold me my car was also in dispute with him over a drive that kept flooding due to him concreting over a drain. Again, he totally ignored his pleas to him to put his mistake right.

A very unpleasant person to do business with. I urge you not to!

Amba_Gambla

find the nearest dodgy looking bloke smoking roll-ups with a funny accent..... I'm sure he'll do it for you - all for the very best price of course :rotfl: