The short version- Jimmy showed up and agreed to a robust, straight chain link fence on the back of my property. He said it would be done in three days. Two weeks later I was tired of arguing with him to do the job he agreed to do. By the end I couldn't wait for him to leave. I had to clean up after him and fix what I didn't like.
Long version- He was pleased to do the least possible. I had to argue to get him to do what he had agreed to do. At one point he suggested that I put caulk in the wide seams that should be welded. That was just the back fence.
The front fence was an add-on project that he said would be done in an additional two days. He removed the old fence. He put up posts for the new one. Argued about how it wasn't his fault for it being crooked and a list of other excuses. I insisted that he take the posts out and put in new ones that were straight. He agreed. Then four days later he announced that he wasn't going to do it. The fence he took down is in a pile and I don't have a front fence now. Then he gave the old posts away to the neighbor. I had to go ask for them back and then haul the posts with a big chunk of concrete attached to them back to my yard. All eight of them. I still had to pick up all the wire and pipe pieces he cut and left on the ground and the pieces of wire left hanging on the fence.
Jimmy is charming and talks a good game, but looks to do as little as possible. When things get difficult, he leaves. I have to hire a new fence guy for the front. Which, after all this, I'm now reluctant to do.
Photos- 1) Wires that were left hanging on the fence. That I had to remove 2) Cut pieces of pipe, wire, welding rod, left on the ground, that I had to clean up. 3) The posts I had to haul back from the neighbor. 4)The front fence that now sits in a pile.
