Talk about a bad way to begin your Yelp career. This review is about the arrogant, aggressive and confrontational owner of Sanchez R landscaping. He was called to my home by a contractor who uses him for concrete pumping. This is what takes the concrete from the mixing trunk and pumps it via a flexible tube onto the concrete pour site.
The problem began when Sanchez first arrived on scene. He began a fight with my contractor because the concrete truck wasn't of the company he specified. Then after arguing with my contractor for a good ten minutes, he bullies the concrete truck driver to move his truck to another location, when it was already parked directly in front of the concrete pad that was supposed to be poured into.
After doing that, he decides to park his truck in front of my neighbor's driveway, thereby blocking it. Later on during the pour, which cannot be stopped mid-stream, my neighbor complained that he and his wife needed to go to the store, and Sanchez R's truck was blocking him. I had to apologize and lend my neighbor my car.
Sanchez not only blocked their driveway, but he decides unilaterally that he's going to route the concrete flexible hose through the neighbors lawn and over his wall. He parks his pumping trailer on the street, and lays his metal pipe onto the newly done paving stone project that the neighbors paid to have done. The hard metal pipe chips the new paving stone in several places, and now my neighbor is more mad.
Sanchez is yelling at both my contractor as well as the concrete 'finisher' guy (the one who takes the finalized pour of concrete and smooths it out to make a final finished product). The finisher guy is a 60 year old quiet Mexican man who my contractor has worked with for 20 years.
As Sanchez finishes the pour, he drags the concrete flexible hose over the neighbors yard and lets the remaining concrete flow onto the yard. I had to spend about two hours cleaning this up. The concrete gets into the planters, onto the sidewalk, and onto the neighbor's expensive paving stone slab. I had to take my pressure washer and spend an hour removing all that.
To add insult to injury, Sanchez R decides he's going to use my neighbor's water hose to 'flush out' the flexible concrete hose that he used to pump the concrete. He uses it for a solid five minutes as though it belongs to him.
When I finally confronted Sanchez R about these issues, he told me that he does three or four of these pumping jobs every day, and that this particular job is 'nothing to me'. In other words, the money amount is so meager it's not even worth his time to argue about it.
I felt thoroughly disrespected by this guy, and I also felt bad for my contractor and the older gentleman who was the finisher guy. I want to let everyone know how much of a d-bag this guy is so that if he shows up on your site, you can be warned. read more