HOOTEN’S LAWN & TREE SERVICE

We had a sprinkler system and new lawn installed. It was about an acre and a half area. They did an amazing job. A few months later it looks like we live on a golf course. The price was reasonable as I did extensive research. They arrived to work as scheduled and completed it in a couple days. They even did some extra work at no charge. Very professional and friendly to both myself and my husband. We highly recommend them.

Be careful. This company has some nice people but if you have a large job, as we did, do NOT rely on the bid as the final cost — or even the invoices left with me on the day of install. The owner made many substitutions of plants which he did not «ask» if we were ok with, he just showed up with them & told us they would be fine. He is a big guy & got angry with me (female) on 3 occasions but did not exhibit the attitude with my husband. Note: Have your husband deal with him. I had a landscape design professionally drawn for us which incorporated drought tolerant plants with an emphasis of red, a few white & purple. I have 1 plant type with red, no purple and very little white, but lots of pink (which I hate) — he even changed out the types of plants/​trees. The bid was to include mulch for all the beds — be sure to ask it this is just a scattering of the actual amount needed, 3−4″ of mulch for beds planted in May going into the Summer. I paid for some additional mulch after the 2^nd day of install but ended up needing $ 1300 more of mulch — I had less than 1″ in the beds when they left. Owner also told me he only needed 1 load of top soil — so far I have been charged for 3 and he wants to continue to revise the bill after the job is completed. I also had to call & pay to have the stone & gravel delivered the day of install — but he did not want to deduct anything from his bill which was to include delivery of all materials.
Does ok work, but his work ethic & maturity have room for improvement. He is now threatening to put a LIEN on my property because I want him to address the questions I have had about the top soil deliveries, the fact my husband had to re-​work over 50% of the drip line irrigation, and replacement of numerous plants that died. He has been paid in excess of the amount bid, we have not held out anything that was included in the bid, in fact, we even had to go pick up some of the plants from the nursery & some we have had to plant ourselves just to finish the job. If you can find someone else, I would keep looking, especially, if you are not a «do-​it-​yourself» kind of person.