Shawnee Concrete Sidewalk Installation

Great company! Owner was on site, his crew was professional. I flip houses for a living, and I will hire them again for the next job.

He did beautiful work. He was reasonable; I had received several estimates. My sidewalk was all broken. So, he poured concrete on it to make it better. My experience with him was very good. He did a really great job. It was beautiful. He did wonderful brick work. The bricks have sustained for over 5 years and there hasn?t been any cracking. He is a really pleasant guy. He is polite and cleans up the mess, which is nice. He is very easy to work with. His price is reasonable. He does everything that I ask him to do. He is currently doing another sidewalk for me. He is doing a great job with this one as well.

All went well and finished product looks nice.  Good communication and showed up on time and completed as scheduled.  Would use and again and recommend.

Please beware of this company.  We received several quotes to have a concrete patio poured and selected Lew's as one of their selling points was they would be able to complete job before a certain time period.  Well due to the rain they were unable to make that appointment which is understandable.  They rescheduled for a week later as long as weather was okay.  Well, the weather held up very well and ground was dry.  Even contacted one of the employees on a social media website to ask for something additional when they came out 3 days later.  He indicated that they would be able to accommodate and were still planning on coming out as long as there was no rain.  Well, that day comes and they do not show.  After finally getting a hold of someone several hours after they were to come, I find out they decided to take another job that day and I would not get the patio poured that day.  In fact, I would have to wait a couple more days, when rain was again in the forecast.   Their explanation was they had a contract and would get a penalty if they didn't do that other job that day.  No call, no show.  I had to track them down myself to get this information.  This was red flag #1.  Since they were still able to get the patio in that week we decided to let them still do it as opposed to selecting out backup contractor which was 30 days out.  The next scheduled day it was of course raining so they pushed it out one more day.  When that day comes they started the digging and setting the form.  This is where the real problems began.  Part of what we asked for when doing this is to have all of the old dirt and topsoil removed and hauled away.  This was something they said they did in the bidding process as they had to level the ground and put down gravel to support the concrete.  They ended up just pushing the dirt and sod along the edges of the form which made it look like a mound with an aggressive slope.  As I did not want this, I asked them to remove that dirt as that was what I originally asked for.  My yard was still in good shape at this point, except the 3-4 feet around the concrete form.  During this dirt removal, they proceeded to decimate the rest of the backyard with their heavy equipment.  They shrugged at the damage and said they would bring out some dirt to backfill.  This was 100% unnecessary for them to have to bring in the heavy equipment to do this if they would have removed the dirt as they were digging instead of push to another section of my yard.  Additionally, when they were finished destroying the yard to remove the dirt that should have been removed in the first place, they threw plywood boards on the side of our brand new house which required touch up painting.  It surely did not seem they were interested in respecting our property.  So all of this was on a Thursday before 4th of July.  They were not able to get the form placed in time before it started raining again so they couldn't pour.  The catch was that the concrete mix wasn't able to be delivered on Friday since they were closing that day.  So basically, I had a tore up yard for the entire holiday weekend.  My guests got to see all of the damage.   They came out the following Monday to pour.  However, they did not do what they quoted us.  In our quote we were supposed to have a darker color stamped border that would have needed to be poured first.  They actually poured it all at once and then stained the top of the border.  Since I was landscaping up to the edge of the concrete i also needed the sides to be the same color as the top of the border.  When bringing this up to Terry one of the owners, he said no one ever pours the border first and they do not do a separate integral color.  This is interesting because our quote specifically says that they were going to pour the border first and it would be a different integral color.  He was not able to understand so he started threatening us with a lien on the property if we didn't pay.  At this point, we decided to cut our losses and just pay them so they would leave.  After looking at the concrete, there is already a crack forming (8 days after pouring), several pits, the colors are not even throughout, there are scuff marks, dimples, etc.  Terry states that that is normal, that you would never have the same color throughout when using colored concrete and there are always going to be imperfections.  I've seen many patios using different types of colored or stamped concrete and have never seen the types of imperfections of color discrepancy as what they have done.  This was a very expensive lesson for us.  In the future we will create contracts that specify exactly what is to be done with finished product expectations.  In short because i know this is TL;DR, if you ask Lew's to get a bid to you and you select them for your work.  Be sure to have them go over the quote with you so there is no chance they will get away with shortcuts once the job begins.  Get everything from prep to finished product expectations in writing.  This is the worst contractor we have ever had in terms of customer service, accuracy, and quality of work.  We have has many contractors from landscapers to deck builders out at our new home and all of them except for Lew's actually did the job they were paid to do, correctly.

I contacted several concrete contractors on Angie's List in late May / early June.  Of them all, one refused to come out and give an estimate because they were just "too busy right now" and said our job was "too small" (really?).  One came out and gave an estimate, but asked zero questions and never DID email me the quote, so I know he was just going through the motions.   Of them all, Paul at All About Concrete was the only one to come out promptly, show interest in the job, and give us a quote. He explained that he'd have to replace our old 2 inch thick concrete with 4 inch concrete, due to codes, but that this would have rebar in it as well, which would make the walk stronger and less likely to crack as much as our old concrete walk had. We had him quote us for full tear-out and replacement of our old concrete walk, which leads from our back door...out along the south side of our house, all the way to our front door.  I'm not sure how long this walk had been in-place, but it was full of cracks.  And, as a part of a tax abatement program that we're working on, "fixing the cracks in the sidewalk" needed to be done.  Of course, full replacement takes less time and expense overall, compared to fixing 70% of the concrete segments, so that's what we had done. Paul and his men were always prompt and courteous.   He actually got around to doing the work a week sooner than he originally communicated by email, so that was good.   And his men were careful to use 2 by 4's to lay back our plants and flowers that bordered the walk, so that they wouldn't be stepped on while they were working  (although I did tell them that wasn't really necessary, as everything's perennials and would therefore grow back fine next year). They cleaned up after themselves and even filled in some dirt along both sides of the new (now 2" taller) walk, so that nobody'd twist an ankle if they went over the sides. Yeah, the price was a bit "up there", but I needed the work done before fall and none of their competitors here were responding (and yes, I did post reviews for them as well), so working with a true professional was worth it.

We were searching for someone to prepare our site for an out building.  We had called several others prior.  Overland Foundation/ H. Thomas Sloan returned our call promptly.  As soon as the dirt work was done he started right away. Actually he communicated with the excavation and made sure things went smoothly.  He handled all dealings with the code people (which is no easy task!)  There were a couple of rain days during the week, but he and his crew worked from morning until dusk until the job was done.  They  even worked on Saturday and Sunday to help us meet our deadline.  Overall, they were professional and very hard-working!

I had communicated with Jeff entirely by email right up until he called me to let me know they were ready to work on my house.  The work was done on a house that is going to be put on the market, so needless to say I want it to look nice without having to pay a lot.  His crew showed up and got right to work, by the time I made it to the house to meet them (7:30am) the sidewalk & porch were already torn out and they were working on tearing out the grass area that was to be landscaped.  Knowing that I was going to put my house up for sale Jeff recommended landscaping that needed little to no maintenance & mulch for a softer look.  The whole process was painless, and they worked quickly.  I'd say the whole project took only 5 hrs from start to finish.  The end result is so much better than I had pictured in my mind.  I will definately use them again!

We were very pleased with the quality of the company's work and the crew's dedication to the job and great cleanup efforts. In addition, we believe the price for the work performed was fair. There were small delays in receiving the company's bid and getting the job started, apparently due to their other priority work and weather issues.

He met with us beforehand to discuss a plan and let us look at samples. He arrived when promised and completed the work as agreed. We plan to add more curbing in the future and will definitely use Steve again.

The contractor had a very professional presentation with his estimate including his proof of insurance.  JP kept us informed of anticipated start date. The project was completed in four days and included sealing the concrete.