The warning signs were all there before the work even started. So I hope this review helps others to be informed of my hind sight. The quote was detailed with what work was going to be done, but there was only 1 grand total. If I had a breakdown of the cost for landscaping and the hardscaping for the front of my house, it could've prevented the nickel and diming this company has. There was never any transparency with the savings I should have had when quoted work was not done or the cost when minor changes were suggested and approved. Terrible customer service. Waited almost 4 months after giving them a down payment. Called them every week uneasy that the job would never start and the office staff were rude/abrupt. They just showed up with one days notice. Oh, and the owners cell phone is private....they will not give you his number. Leave a message and they will call you back BS. Electrician showed up to do the lighting and left behind some beer cans. The owner did not care. One light fixture stopped working after 6 weeks...so much for high end products. I am all for supporting local business, but that assumes the business has integrity and has a track record for good work and good service. This is not the company you want to hire. read more

A bloody joke of a company. whomever is running it now has totally ruined this old, stable company. Surprised they are still in business. I hired them a few years ago to do a deck and patio. they used shitty materials, very poor workmanship and crappy labor. they wouldnt even replace a new plant that died. not even a return phone call. Stay away from these low-lives read more

Mom hires them a few years ago to fill in her pool and re do her patio, add armor stone wall etc.. The neighbour was getting their backyard done at the same time. Markham landscaping reused the neighbours old stone and fill from their pool to fill moms. Charged her full price for the stone and the use of the other companies machine to fill the pool. Needless to say, the patio has sunk and held water when they were done. They used junk stone for steps gor example wall coping instead of natural and the armor wall has shifted and is tipping now. They also cut a power line to one of her backyard lights on the house, said nothing and left it, this year the exposed wire, half buried, sparked in a storm and lit a bush on fire at the side of her house which could have destroyed her home. All in all they did a very poor job, used the cheapest materials possible and charged her something comparable to that of a new mid class vehicle. Whoever is running this company should learn to set a standard and go by it. I have heard since that they sub contract out to hacks and are just collecting a check. Stay away from this company as they are junk and just want to jam you with a huge bill. They suck. If I could put a fraction of a star I 100% would. Tons of companies out there that would do a way better job. read more

I agree with Pluggy S. We had a deck rebuilt in 2010. The instructions were simple: "Replace the existing structure as it was". A project that should have taken a couple of weeks took months. It didn't comply with the building code. We had to get the decking replaced this year (due to a manufacturing defect) and found the workmanship to be absolutely horrible. (Crib not properly blocked and anchored) After sales service was terrible. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!! read more

The worst contractor I've ever dealt with! A nightmare from start to finish. They contracted out my project to the lowest bidder, and once they had my money stopped returning my phone calls. They graded our interlock driveway and walkway by eye, water flows into the garage instead of away! After the first winter it was collapsing and falling apart already. They won't fix it because they said it's just regular maintenance that needs to be done each year! And the filtered "good" review by Catherine E, well that just happens to be the same name and initial as the owners wife! read more

I agree with most reviews here. Our landscape and stonework began with this company 8 weeks late about 4 years ago. When the one worker showed up, he did our stonework mostly by himself. The job was supposed to start in early July, it actually began late in August/ early September. The other frustration was that the owner's wife never answers the phone. The owner Mike has a cellphone and he keeps the number private, so it is impossible to reach him personally unless he calls you. Who does he think he is? They are very frustrating to deal with. The job was expensive. When the plants and shrubs were finally brought to us they were not of good quality, and end of season items and what stock that was left at their nursery. The next year, stones started coming up due to use of poor quality materials. To get them to fixed was like pulling teeth. We called and the company wouldn't call back. We called many times with alot of frustration. The owner's wife would say, " Well, we are busy and will be there soon." This meant weeks later. Finally, Brian was sent out, to simply "glue" the stones on our front steps in place. They came loose again. They were fixed again and again. This fall the same thing happened to the stones and we called them once more and the gentleman came and "fixed" the stones again by using the same poor quality materials to "cement" them in place. Now, approaching summer 2018, we learned the hard way and we are going to redo the shoddy work this company performed and get the job done properly. Do not use this company at all costs!! They are unprofessional and do not do the job correctly. We also heard from people we know who the same thing happen to them. They had to have the work fixed by another company. We consider this a lesson learned. Do your homework when hiring a reputable landscaping company, as this one isn't it. : ( read more

Terrible customer service. Doesn't return phone calls or let you know when they are coming. Doesn't listen to what you want - I specifically said no cedars, and what did they bring - cedars! Wish I read the previous review before I hired them. read more

We hired the company last fall only to get a crew of one who did not come when promised. They planted without even getting my consent on the plants. Returned this spring only to try and sell me brown cedars which they called golden. They delivered plants without even giving me a landscape design and proceeded to plant them even though I had told them not to proceed without a plan. After promising to fix the irrigation system which they broke the year before and give me a formal design I still am waiting. My pool equipment which was disconnected the year before was not even connected back to it's former state until I complained. You be the judge. read more

Markham Landscaping did a fantastic job for us. They installed a lovely waterfall, walkways, a driveway, and goregous gazebo. We love every part of our landscaping and have been able to entertain family and friends. Thanks for the great job, and keep up the great work. read more

The work did not seem to us to have been done properly - we were pretty sure they didn't bury the drainpipes deep enough. They sent a senior person to check, and that person agreed with us. So the company sent someone to supposedly fix it. We were a bit skeptical, but the work visually looked good afterwards (we could not yet tell whether grass would grow over the pipes they placed) and they asked us to sign a paper. But as the season passed we could see that the pipes were still sticking slightly out of the ground (grass won't grow, and the lawnmower chops up the top of the pipes), and the bricks to the front door were falling uneven over the drainpipe, causing potential ice and tripping hazards. We placed calls and got no reply from Markham Landscaping. We gave up for a while, tried other things (putting more lawn soil and seed). Pretty much every year (probably every year), after we made an effort at our end, we called to say the problems are still outstanding. We were told 'someone will call you'. Yet still we got no reply. Life is busy, and I'll admit I did not always take the time to chase down an answer. Sometimes I followed up once or twice, sometimes I just placed the call and let it stand. My husband put off hiring a new contractor, because we had no appetite to pay a different contractor for the same work. Today, after four years of calling and getting no response (and clearly not being aggressive enough), I decided I was going to succeed in speaking to someone. I guess I'm motivated by the fact that we can no longer putting off hiring someone to have the work re-done. So I waited on hold until I could speak to a manager. He acknowledged, looking at our records, that there is no record of the company replying to our calls, after the second visit. He said it would be hard for him to admit at this point that he has a warranty issue, since several years have passed. He tried to offer some excuses, such as how many calls he gets in a year and how hard it would be to respond to all of them, or how many years have passed. True, but it seems rather 'weasly' to not return calls while a warranty is valid or in what would be deemed a reasonable time, and then later say, well, now it's too late for us to honour the warranty. In our phone call I asked if he would honour the work and send someone out to redo it, and offered that perhaps we could reach a compromise -something they could be proud of, too. He did not come up with a counter-offer and woudl not come and re-do the work. When I suggested that I would share my experience online, this is what he responded: "The demand for my services exceeds my ability to supply. Just look around your neighbourhood to see [how many homes we're doing]. I don't need to justify my work." I interpret this as, they will rest on their laurels - they have plenty of business, they don't need to resolve our problems. We would absolutely not use Markham Landscaping again. read more

although there were delays, leaving the job to go to other jobs, causing some difficulties with neighbours, problems with their suppliers, the work appeared to be ok, at first. within 3 months the lighting was failing, the stonework on the porches was not done properly and is cracking, and lifting. .calls to get the work repaired was first met with excuses and delays (we are busy; we will be there in 2 weeks, a month, 6 weeks, 8 weeks and no one shows and then they just don't reply. Mike is so busy buying and selling cars, equipment and flipping houses, he doesn't care about his core business. if you use them, hold back 25% for 1-2 years to make sure your work is done properly. read more