Well my first post and it's a rant. I am building a 36x60 pole barn and in the process of ground prep. Getting contruction crews and excavation crews to even return my phone calls has left me less than satisfied. Don't these people want work? Some show up three days later in odd hours of the evening to bid the job. I finally settled on one excavation outfit through word of mouth and he actually had a pretty good bid to boot. He bid the job at 8 hrs. seat time on the cat and stated the dirt moved would be feathered out in a nice fashion along behind the house. I did have a lot of stumps to grind prior to him moving dirt and had the work done in time for him when he got to the job site. The short of the story is he came to me after the job was somewhat complete and gave me a bill for 16 hrs cat time and left me with a pile of about 40 yrds of dirt just outside my picture window for my wife to look at
! He claimed he had to move more material than expected due to stumps the grinder didn't get and he had to go deeper than expected due to the fact that he shot the grade for the bid in the front corner of the building and didn't realize how much the ground sloped. He claims the pile of dirt my wife gets to look at every night is my problem to deal with. The bid does say "this is an approximation of units and measurements" in fine print but to bid it at one half the time and leave me with a mess is a real bummer! What do I do, I already expressed my feelings with him and he said well I cant work for free. That's the bill for what I've done and for another $500.00 he can come down and move the rest of the dirt around to where I need it. Is this normal? Thanks for any input.
! He claimed he had to move more material than expected due to stumps the grinder didn't get and he had to go deeper than expected due to the fact that he shot the grade for the bid in the front corner of the building and didn't realize how much the ground sloped. He claims the pile of dirt my wife gets to look at every night is my problem to deal with. The bid does say "this is an approximation of units and measurements" in fine print but to bid it at one half the time and leave me with a mess is a real bummer! What do I do, I already expressed my feelings with him and he said well I cant work for free. That's the bill for what I've done and for another $500.00 he can come down and move the rest of the dirt around to where I need it. Is this normal? Thanks for any input.