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4 years ago
Avoid Darren!!!! Agreed payment plan in August for £1500 messaged in January obviously had no jobs on I asked to wait 2 weeks he doubled the price to 3000 then put me off again till March! He's discusting and a liar! read more
8 years ago
Darren gave me an initial quote, which got higher as the original materials requested weren't available. For most of the job, lasting 2 weeks, the only people who were consistently on the job were a general labourer and a new employee who hadnt landscaped before but we were quoted for professional landscapers. As the job went on Darren changed the design and, as I thought, exchanged the patio tiles I had paid for in exchange for a composite walkway in the same material used for my patio, he changed the layout of the steps and the size of the deck. On completion there were numerous issues which Darren agreed were substandard as he had rushed the end of the job to finish to deadline. He then presented me with a bill for an additional £1500 on top of the £14000 I had already paid him. This was far in excess of his quote. We refused to pay as Darren could provide no invoices and had removed substantial excess materials from the property for use on other jobs, but finally after 5 months of argument Darren agreed to make good the problems F.O.C. That was in November and we are still waiting, despite pleading with him to come and make good on his promises. I hate leaving this review because his workers never stopped, in all weather's and Darrens ideas are lovely. Sadly, he cannot run his business effectively and if you hire him I'd warn you to check everything you you pay him for and gets itemized receipts for the materials. We paid £14000 for a town garden to be decked, flagged and astro turfed. We have since asked 2 other landscapers what we should have paid and they agreed the cost with labour should have been approx £9000!!! read more
12 years ago
Asked them to come out and quote for a new driveway and landscaping of existing garden. Probably a few thousand quids worth but I'll never know as they were "far too busy to come out and waste time". They suggested I get other landscapers to come out, quote and then come back to Abel so they could see what's been specced and quote for it. When I said well that doesnt seem fair to the others, he rather arrogantly said "well they won't be as busy as us". All I wanted was a simple short site visit, recommendations and a quote but since that's too much to ask, I'll give the work to other people. Having read Paul's review about the final invoice being 25% higher than the quote, I'm starting to think I dodged a bullet! read more
12 years ago
No problems at all with the quality of the work however, when a final invoice is 25% higher than the original quote, then you have to question their management's competence. read more
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6 Albert Drive
Orrell Park
Liverpool L9 8BQ
United Kingdom
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0151 525 8889
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http://www.abellandscapes.co.uk
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Abel landscapes are a professional landscaping company and have been transforming Garden's and driveways in Liverpool and around Merseyside under it's name for the last fifteen years. Darren Moss the managing director has been landscaping since 1983. Abel are an approved Marshall's registered installer and have been a member of the Marshall's register since it began in 2000.We are a Liverpool, Merseyside based Landscaping, paving and Driveway Installer. As members of the Marshall's register we have created the highest standard of installing all kinds of paving products for driveways and gardens, from Garden design to complete landscape construction.We offer our services in Liverpool ,Wirral and other areas surrounding Merseyside. are specialists in installing all types of paving products, natural stone, Indian Sandstone and manufactured stone. Which can breathe new life into any garden.This gallery shows samples of our work in Liverpool and the surrounding areas of Merseyside.
History
Established in 1983.
Abel landscapes are a professional landscaping company and have been transforming Garden's and driveways in Liverpool and around Merseyside under it's name for the last fifteen years. Darren Moss the managing director has been landscaping since 1983.
Meet the Business Owner: Darren M.
. Darren was first employed by his Uncle - William Moss Landscapes as a labourer when he left school back in 1983.He learned allot of basic landscaping skills in the first 12 months, then he went into business with his Father Tommy Moss under the name Moss Landscapes and continued to develop various landscaping skills for several years. At that time work was hard to find in the winter time , so Darren used to travel to London as a self employed scaffold er labourer then return back to Liverpool to carry out landscaping work during the summer months.He eventually decided to stay working in London for around six years but returned back to Liverpool in 1992. During 1994 Darren became a Christian and his whole attitude towards running a business changed. He began to trade under the name of Abel Landscapes and has continued to develop his various skills. Since 2001 Darren has focused on training his installers to perform at the highest standard.
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3 years ago
Being the director of Abel landscaping I'd like to make a comments about some of reviews left on here. There are always two sides to every story. So in our defence to the comment by Jane D , she is being Very un fair and not telling the whole truth . There was unforeseen extras work Jane and her husband instructed us to carry out . One of the items or work was to under pin the boundary wall which had a sink hole under it making it very un safe that had to be filled in with concrete . This was discovered after we lifted her existing paving up . The councle instructed them to immediately make it safe as the wall was about to cal apse on access all-way .There were also lots of other extras items added to the project that were not accounted in the original design . In our term and conditions we specified that the quote was customised to the specifications in the design and if design or quantities change then the cost will change accordingly . So if less work costed is carried out then cost will be less and if more work is carried out than we have accounted for then cost will be more . The customer needed job completing for a party that was schedulled and was basically demanding we get off site before then . The job could not be completed correctly in time so we said we shall come back the following week after the party to rectify and complete some unfinished work . It's really unfair to high light in her pictures this work . I will post some good pictures of the job They would not let us back on site and told us we were not getting paid for any additional work in which they clearly instructed us to carry out . . I told them they have to give us the right to complete the work and fix the snags caused by them rushing us to complete for the party in which they eventually let us back on site to rectify . . They refused to pay us in full and told us that that they would remove any bad reviews . Then they went to live in Canada very unfair Abel landscaping are not like what this customer betrayed us to be . Regards the comments from beth W I or any one from the company have never met her . She phoned us asking us for a rough price over the phone based on our price list our office manage have her a price based on her specification . When I site there was twice as much work to do than she had told us . She did not have the funds and we said she could pay each month . Her demands were not sustainable she was not on site as it was her Doughter's home one was there to attend the survey except myself . Again let the Ruth me know we do not lie and have no reason to lie . Some people can be really nasty if they don't get what they want . . The job had previously been started by another contractor who left the garden in a real mess , again it's unfair to be trying to bad mouth our company for not wanting to meet her demand's . read more












