Where do I start??? I hired Jeff Cornett to dig a foundation and lay block. He promised once I paid him I would have to do nothing else to do and guaranteed that I would pass all the inspections. I have been trying to repair the mess he created ever since and ended up spending another 1000$ plus dollars to finally get my inspections. He took no tIme laying out the footings. They were completely off square. He then laid the block hanging over the edge of the footing by 4 inches in places. I ended up digging them back out myself. He did not seal the walls as promised and instead mixed the sealant into the stucco. The structure ended up being several inches off level and 1 and 3/4 inches off square! And on and on and on. Do not hire this man!! You will be sorry. read more

Would NOT recommend at all! Initial contract was for a 24'x25' slab for a garage, $1900 for labor, his estimate was $1700 for materials (to be paid for by me) when he ordered the first load of gravel he underestimated the quantity needed which would have thrown the job out of budget, so we reduced the slab size to 20'x25'. The final cost of materials was 2537.20, over $800 more than his estimate for a smaller slab... The final product was a slab that starting from the high corner was out of level 4 1/2", 6" and 6 1/2" going counter clockwise to the other corners and nothing flat between those points! (obviously, a level was never used on this job!). Also, no footer was put on the adjusted side (going from the 24' to 20' width) or the front. I ended up with an unusable slab, about $900 over his original estimate of cost, with inadequate footers that cracked down the middle within 2 months. (I'm not even sure he ordered the concrete with the fiber like he was supposed to, since you can usually see traces of it on the edges and surface of a slab that it is in.) With trash left behind, a form board half buried left behind, concrete cowpies left in the yard. Completely unprofessional, useless job! read more

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This guy stole $1400 from us. Came out on a Saturday and said he would be here Tuesday morning. We gave him $1400 labor in ADVANCE. When they didn't show Tuesday I called him so he came in the afternoon. Was a no show Wednesday so we called him and they came in the afternoon. Same on Thursday, said he slept late. Looked right at me and said we will pour you Friday morning. Then when THAT didn't happen he said the same thing Friday night after putting in some cheesy forms and said you will be poured First in Tuesday. You know how this goes by now. His wife said we were too demanding and Jeffrey said Southern Concrete are nothing but liars because he kept using the excuse that they needed to check the job site for their truck. And when we went ahead and called ourselves and they okayed it, he said you can't trust them and you need to record everything they say. Well Southern Concrete gave us a name of another guy who came right out. We dodged a bullet because his forms were wrong with not enough depth and our step was going to be way off. Now we need to sue him for the $1400 for labor not done read more

We had a simple 12'x6' existing porch removed and repoured by this joke of a company. The existing porch was over 40 years old, and it had began to sag near the house entrance. He made up a rather simple contract and required we pay half up front. My dad was in the concrete business my entire life so I know how concrete is framed, poured and finished. Well the first day went pretty smoothly, the removal was a breeze since the existing concrete was weathered and damaged from many years of ice and snow, salt treatments etc. When his guys formed it however I noticed that they were allowing rocks and pieces of the old porch to hold the forms off at the outer edge (thus creating a situation where they were sloped the wrong way). I advised Jeffery of this at that time. He just brushed it off and said "oh it will be fine, I can eyeball this and make it perfect". WRONG, I know from past experience with my dad when I was younger that you can not "eyeball" concrete or any wet surface for that fact and put a proper slope or level to it. It requires a properly sloped form or guide to be used when you screet it. He didn't listen or correct the error with the forms and proceeded to leave that evening. The next day was pour day. To my surprise, I had to call and order the concrete myself. We knew we would have to pay for the concrete ourselves, but he couldn't order it himself. Also I made the decision on how much to order since he told me his estimation and then asked if I thought it would be enough...I mean WTF dude? So the concrete comes and he pours it. They let too much go in and then scooped out a hole AT the door with the screet board running the wrong way (along the house instead of along the forms). Then they proceed to trowel it down with it at form level (too high) on the outsides and it all the way at the top of the threshold at the door. After a bit they remove the forms and fill in holes where they did not tap the forms hard enough to settle the cement in properly, and then they broom it all off. They leave with Jeffery telling me to mist it with water every few hours to ensure proper curing. The first time i wet it the water puddles against the house and at the door, and I mean a lot of water at the door. We immediately call Jeffery and he says he will be out a little later that evening to fix it. Well dusk begins to set in, we call him back and get the response that he will be out first thing in the morning. Now I knew good and well that the cement would be too hard to do any re-sloping the next morning, but like a fool I let him get away with this crap too. So the next day comes, he shows up at noon and tries to use a trowel machine to cut down the high ends without success (I knew that would happen). So he proceeds to saw a 2" deep line from the middle of our door to the edge of the porch after he was explicitly told not to. This did absolutely nothing to make the water run off when it rains all it does is pond up against our back door and at times runs into the house. It has completely ruined the floor at the door and is also damaging the siding where it ponds water and the cement is too high (it is above/ON the siding instead of the siding sitting down on it). There was no flashing put between the concrete and the seal plates before he poured it, and there was no bull nose on his forms so now it just looks like a big block of cement. The no bull nose is fine, but the incorrect sloping is not. He no longer returns our calls and our house has been ruined at that area because of this incompetent owner that sat on the phone almost the whole time the job was being done instead of out of his truck working with and supervising his crew. I mean my god, it was only a 12'x6' pour, and we paid him to pour it, bought his guys food and smokes while they were working, plus paid for the concrete. Now it will cost us over $1000 to fix his screw ups. IF YOU WANT YOUR HOUSE TO SURVIVE, STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS GUY. read more