Fairfax Station Tree Service

I was mowing my grass one day last week when two men pulled up in a truck pulling a wood chipper. They asked me to stop mowing so they could give me a sales pitch and estimate to have my trees trimmed. They specifically wanted to trim my 20 some odd crêpe myrtles which are NOT to be trimmed until spring. I listened but was not interested in getting my trees trimmed that day since it was only about an hour before sundown. I asked them to return the next day to do the job.
The man who seemed to be in charge, insisted that I let him trim my trees right then because he couldn’t come back the next day as he had a big job on a nearby street. Regrettably, I gave in and let them start trimming. We settled on $ 500 for the completed job.
As darkness approached, the lead man was steadily on his cell phone which was annoying to me. Then he asked if he could go inside my house to «pee.» I don’t usually allow that but I accompanied him inside my house to make sure he found his way to the bathroom and back outside.
Meanwhile, the second man in the tree trimming team was supposed to be gathering the cut branches and taking them to street to be put into the chipper. When we all returned to the yard, I noticed there were many remaining tree branches that the second man had neglected to take to the chipper so I picked them up and took them to the street.
Then suddenly, the lead tree trimmer told me he had to leave because his wife was having a baby. I felt sorry for him and paid him the $ 500 with his promise to return the next evening after his big job on a nearby street.
He left a HUGE mess in the street in front of my house which I cleaned in the dark. He did not return the next day. I called him and he promised to return the following morning to finish the job. He did not return and the job is not finished.
I have since called him twice and left voice mail with no call backs. The lead tree man asked me to write the $ 500 check to «Wayne Testerman» instead of the company name on the business card. The check was cashed the morning after I wrote it.
DO NOT let these people on your property. They do a horrible job and leave a huge mess. They had about an hour before dark to complete a 2 hour job and the lead guy ate a donut, drank a soda, smoked a cigarette, talked on the phone and «peed» before he «finished» the job we agreed he would do. BUYER BEWARE!!!