I contracted Jorge for an over $4000 job and had MANY issues with Jorge. Beware!…read more Prior to contracting Jorge, I was very unfortunate to miss the following preparation steps: 1. ENJOY THE WORST POSSIBLE RESULTS Check the pictures of the final results of the contractor's sodding work. Make sure you want the same. When Jorge did the sodding in February the sod looked dead (cause most likely it was). Jorge assured me it is "hibernated" and will recover shortly. Obviously, it never happened and, two months later, most of the grass is just as dead as it was at the moment of sodding (see the pics). It's remarkable that Jorge calls it a good work! 2. PREPARE TO GET DAMAGED AND WORK INCOMPLETE He was resodding my front yard. He didn't finish his job, left garbage and damaged the front yard appearance of my neighbor's property so I got a reasonable complaint from the neighbor demanding me to fix it. Quoting my neighbor: "The landscape crew that re-sodded your front yard left a strip of plowed up soil/mud between your property and mine. It looks terrible, for both properties." On my request to finish the job and fix the damage, Jorge stated that he "miscalculated" the costs and now wouldn't fix the damage without extra payment of $400. (See the snapshot) Unfortunataly, I have already paid Jorge in full by that time since he pressed me a lot asking to be considerate and enable him to pay his people. GET READY TO BE PRESSED FOR FULL PRE-PAYMENT Further, he ignored my messages and only agreed to do it after multiple calls and messages and after I promised to remove a negative review. 3. GET READY TO SEE UNEXPLAINED CHARGES ON THE ESTIMATE Jorge added items on the estimate that were just meant to increase the bill without discussion and explanation. Thus, I got $300 "Overhead" added to the estimate (see the picture). He "clarified" it was added because my project was bigger than usual. Note, he didn't provide any discount because the project was big. On the opposite he tried to charge me more! 4. PREPARE TO GET THINGS SUDDENLY BROKEN AND TO BE CHARGED TO FIX THEM I had an incident when my irrigation very unexpectaedly got pipes broken in 3 different places and 3 sprinklers suddently got broken ONE WEEK (!) following the irrigation fix by Jorge. Since the rest of the landscaping project depended on the irrigation I was forced to get it repaired immediately. The circumstances in which the above got broken were very strange and unlikely. 5. PREPARE TO BE CHARGE EXCEEDINGLY IF THE CONTRACTOR IDENTIFIES YOU BADLY NEED THE PROJECT DONE To fix the broken irrigation pipes (that unexpectedly got broken one week after being fixed by Jorge) he orignally tried to charge me $450 per pipe. So, $1350 to repair 3 small plastic pipes (see pic.). 6. GET READY TO THE ESTIMAES TO GET INCREASED ~X3 TIMES BECAUSE OF "MISTAKES" In my understanding, Jorge is trying to take advantage of the situation to bill you to the max and his quote are also rapidly increasing. So, for example, in the above incident, he first quoted me $450. Then, he notified me of a "quoting mistake" demanding $1350 probably taking advantage that I wasn't present fisically on the spot and that the project was urgent. 7. GET READY TO NEGOTIATE OR BE OVERCHARGED and paying ~3 times more. Now, when I told him I wasn't able to pay this much he retracted back to $550. 8. TAX EVASION Jorge apparently tried to avade taxation on his income. Thus he is urging you to pay him in cash or in personal checks. Since Jorge demanded it, I paid him in personal checks and he never provided a receipt. 9. PREPARE FOR COMPLAINTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS Jorge left garbage on the neighbors lawn and the bricks uncollected (see the pictures). (I can also provide snapshots of messages from my contractor). Jorge only agreed to collect the garbage after multiple calls and messages and lots of time spent on my part. Even then, his original proposal was to leave the garbage sacks uncollected for over a week on neighbors lawn

Jorge and his team were laser focused in delivering a solution that I was satisfied with at the…read moreend. During the process of finishing my landscaping needs, Jorge was able to accommodate to changes that I needed last minute. I'd recommend them for sure. I'll most likely be using them for future projects as well.

Happy with the service we got from Final Touch. We had some last minute changes and they were very…read morenice about it and even worked with us to come up with a solution. They made sure we were 100% satisfied with the work. Good price, good people, would highly recommend.

These guys are amazing. I was totally re-doing my back yard. Told them what I wanted and it…read morecouldn't have come out more perfect! They put in three stone lined beds in the back where there was nothing. Planted crepe myrtle and the most amazing part is the stone walkway on the side of my house. This was all uneven dead grass and they made it beautiful! They even did fill dirt in all of my ankle breaker holes in the yard. Put in a new bed on the front also. HIGHLY RECOMMEND Raphael and Jr.

We contacted this company at the end of February regarding irrigation work. They came out in early…read moreMarch, reviewed the property, and provided a quote. After that, communication became extremely frustrating. Throughout March, April, and May, we were repeatedly told that crews would be coming out to complete the work, only for appointments to be missed with little or no notice. We rearranged schedules multiple times based on their commitments, but they continually failed to show up. After more than three months of delays, they finally returned on June 2nd, only to tell us they were too busy to take on the project after all. If the company did not have the capacity to perform the work, we would have appreciated an honest answer months ago. Instead, we spent over three months waiting, following up, and planning around appointments that never happened. Very disappointing experience and a significant waste of time.

The owner Felix and his crew are amazing! We built a custom home and luckily our builder had…read moreselected Grace Irrigation LLC as their sub-contractor for their customers' landscaping needs. Felix and his crew built an incredibly beautiful landscape, with a large variety of plants, a well constructed series of retaining walls and a complex irrigation system. The landscaping is the highlight of the property! Felix is honest, kind and flexible, and his hardworking crew worked around the clock, with a very tight schedule and in harsh TX summer conditions to complete our big landscaping project on time for the closing on our house. We are incredibly grateful to them and we highly recommend them.

Yes! BladeRunner is amazing! Our HOA is using them! Bobby and the crew are so easy to work with…read more They are prompt to return calls and very open to what we as an HOA needs!

I wish I could give these guys great reviews, like other people here, but I really can't. I…read morescheduled a mow and yard cleaning on a Friday. After being a no show I get an email saying they didn't make it out, which happens. But instead of coming out the next day, they come out three days later. When I get home later that day I see some work has been done. Large patches of grass were missed all over, what was cut is very uneaven, there is trash laying around in my yardbthay was hit by a lawnmower but just left there, leaves and branches are still everywhere, and when I checked my yard cameras I see leaves we're just blown off into my neighbors yards, for which I am responsible for and have to make appologies for and clean up. So when I contacted The Green Dude about a $100 invoice for this mess, this was the response: "You are right it was not our best work and I apologize if the leaves got blown on the neighbor's lawn. Please take a $20 discount on this invoice." No offer to come out and fix it, the mess is still there and I am still being charged $80, plus need to go fix it myself, along with my neighbor's yards, or spend even more money to have someone come do it. I am very sorry, but I cannot recommend The Green Dude after this. You are better off finding a kid that can use $20 and hire them for this kind of results.

This company has poor company service and lots of excuses of why the job was not completed…read moreproperly. I have screen shots of the way AJ speaks, beware.

Today, August 17th, 2023, Austin has hit the 41st consecutive day of triple digit temps. And the…read moreforecasted high: 109F. I can't imagine working outdoors. Still, Caroline Foley and her Diamondscape team show up and do so much more than getting the job done. They look for and resolve issues. They consider each of the family members that are using the landscape and garden that they have created and make ongoing improvements. They propose new and useful ideas. We hired Diamondscape to take over the disaster that was left behind by Roberto Castañeda and his Constant Lawn & Gardener, and Caroline and team delivered on every promise. Weed infested, dry/dead sod turned into lush green grass. Plants and flowers are drought and heat-resistant... and attractive. Irrigation systems are constantly tweaked for efficiency and water preservation. We were fortunate to get in under the wire when we did, as Diamondscape had started turning away new clients given their considerable stable of long term customers.

I posted some pictures four years after installation to show how well things have turned out…read more Recently, we installed the irrigation system to automatically water the plants and I wanted to optimize the growth, so I called an arborist to help me out. He walked around and examined all my plants and my trees and was really impressed with all the growth that had occured and how well things had been planted. He tried to get the trees to budge by pushing on them (they did not budge) and he explained how many times he does that test and the trees wobble. He told me that was simply because they had been planted correctly. I wanted to update this review so you can see how well Diamondscape does their job with lasting results. I hope your experience with them is as good as ours was.

Did good work. My invoices were paid immediately. After a few years of service, however, I received…read morethis email from the owner: "Unfortunately, due to some contractual obligations with some of our commercial customers, we must reduce the number of customers on some of our residential service routes. I apologize for the inconvenience, but we will have to discontinue your residential service at the end of this month. This was an unforeseen circumstance, and I am truly sorry. Thank you for your business and again I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience." This was sent 3 weeks after my last cut, they couldn't even give me a heads up.

Evan's a neighbor of mine, though I first met him through Clean Cut. The yard was getting away from…read moreme and I figured I might as well use someone hyper-local. He does a $30 mow/edge/blow within the Wooten neighborhood. He's cut my trees for $60 and we have some other small projects coming up. As far as I can tell, everything past the standard mow is at a $20/hour rate, which is fantastic for a local, organic gardener. I've been very happy with the quality of work as well. We have a list and we're chipping away at it, but I think I've found my guy for basic yard maintenance.

For the past two years, we've had nasty flash floods that have left us collectively about $30,000…read morein debt, even with flood insurance. The house is built on a hill, and when a heavy rain hits us after a dry spell, bad things happen. When the last payout finally came in, we'd planned to earmark a big chunk for fixing the drainage once and for all. Enter Keep Austin Landscaped. Even though our house is small and they usually don't do such small jobs, they came up with a great plan to reroute the water from uphill and guide it around our house to prevent flooding. Initially they suggested an inexpensive galvanized wire and rock wall to keep the water from flowing into our house, but later decided that a better, solid concrete retaining wall would do the job better - - for just the same price. And then, of course, COVID happened. Nevertheless, the KAL team was still ready to work with us as long as we gave the workers their distance, which of course was only fair. I really appreciated them coming out and risking getting sick to do that work, especially when we were really scared that any time now we might flood again. Our uphill neighbors initially agreed to allow us to install a French drain on their property to allow water to drain into the alley behind our houses instead of into our house, but then reneged for reasons we still don't understand. We offered to adjust planning to take any specific concerns into account or seek mediation, but they insisted that we not do anything on their side of the hill. Of course it's difficult to route water away from a house down hill if you can't do anything before the water gets there! The nice folks at KAL tried several times to speak to my neighbors in both English and Spanish on our behalf, and in the end our neighbors allowed them to complete the plan by extending gravel drainage along the shared fence. We've just had the first heavy rain after a dry spell since they've been out here, and not a hint of flooding. Working with them has been an absolute joy, and we heartily recommend them for anyone with a landscaping or drainage issue.

Our front and back yards were a TOTAL mess before we met Shawn and his team. Now our yards look…read moreamazing thanks to Keep Austin Landscaped. KAL made us want to be outside again! Shawn helped us come up with a plan to redo our yards to stay within our budget. He was very responsive and sent pictures of the progress when we were away from home. KAL changed things with no complaints even during our final walkthrough. I highly recommend their services- you will not be disappointed!