I am in shock! We just had two brothers (real mountain folks) who plow homes in my town come to our house and give us a price for them to do our driveway. They were supposed to come in the morning and didn't show up til around 3:30 pm - so I was mad and decided that they weren't reliable and would just have to use my new snow blower and do the work myself - something I am not looking forward to doing.
Then they came and said they were sorry for being late and we discussed what they would do and they said they would charge $25 per storm!!!!!!!! That is why I am in shock. We have a long driveway and even had a car turn-around added that makes it wider. I was expecting to pay around $100, since the thief we hired last February to clear the snow when we had closed on the house, but hadn't moved up yet, charged us $75 per storm and he even came twice for the same storm and double charged us.
They told us they would push the snow up our driveway, past our house and into the woods. They would only come plow if there is 3-4 inches or more of snow - which makes sense. Of course we agreed to have them plow our driveway. I still can not believe how much less we will pay ($50 less) than the first guy. I guess the first guy saw that we were in a hurry and were push-overs and now he not only lost the money from clearing the snow in our driveway this winter, but also many other jobs (since he is also a carpenter.) I don't know why people think they can get one over on me. I will fight tooth and nail for something on principal alone.
They probably will have an easy time with the wider driveway and paving. They'll probably just use the same truck they use for the main roads. The guy you hired before had to do it by hand or with a snow-blower, probably took a lot longer and was more effort.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it matters if you do it by hand or by machine. All I told the first guy was that I wanted the driveway cleared of the snow. I didn't care how he did it. If he was going to do it by hand then that is his issue. Even if I agree that I should be charged more for him to do it by hand there is no excuse why he double charged us for the same storm - especially since I had told him out-right that we weren't going to be living at the house and he could wait til the end of the storm to clear the snow.
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