I contacted RMPW and met with Dusty to review ideas and designs for a water feature. Dusty took into account my existing landscape and how best to incorporate a new hardscape. As we already had new landscaping in place, Dusty's team was very careful not to damage the grass or shrubs as they maneuvered a mini-hex for the excavation. They had to move 4 trees (very expensive trees) which was difficult given the rootball wasn't supported by the wire basket (the previous landscaper removed it which isn't correct to do). While it impacted their schedule by a day, they took the time to hand dig up each tree while carefully wrapping the rootball and moving it so they could excavate. The trees were replanted and show no stress or damage from the move. It's because do their carefulness and caring about my concern which can be rare in the ""blow and go"" world of contractors. Yes, not all the crew didn't speak english, but there was always a foreman on site who spoke english extremely well and was very helpful in providing suggestions and guidance when issues came up (ie having to move the sprinkler box, avoiding a gas line, etc.). Everyone was extremely polite and very easy to communicate with and all were very hard working and got the job done as contracted. Dusty was very helpful with ideas to enhance the existing landscape with simple, relatively inexpensive ways to tie the water feature in with the existing landscape. They were very flexible as well when I added scope to the job to complete some mulching...reasonably priced and very thorough. I wasn't at home during most of the work and it was completed to my satisfaction without any rework whatsoever. My experience with them was one of the best I have had with contractors and I have had many contractors over the last year as we just completed a custom home build. I wish I had contracted with Dusty for all of the landscaping and will definitely call on him again should the opportunity arise. He far exceeded my expectations with the water feature. His product is definitely of high quality fitting a $1M+ home.
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