Sandman Paving and Seal Coating

Jerry and his team did a wonderful job on our driveway. Our neighbor also had theirs completed with Sandman a week after ours was completed. The company is still friendly for after care advice. The summer is over and our driveway was sealed (by another company), I don’t have a single thing that has not gone as expected.

They quoted me for a four inch deep concrete add-​on to my driveway (for a third car parking) and aprons along the side. My city rejected my plans once because the city wanted me to pour the add on five to six feet past my garage opening and rejected sandman three times because they advised that the code called for six inches (which I must say that sandman did not try to charge me for) the other two times was because of the depth and grade of the base. They also quoted me to cut out a section closest to the garage door and replace it with a 3 ft walk way. I believe when they tried to cut that out they damaged my asphalt portion of my driveway which they were not suppose to touch. I came home from work to find out that they pulled out everything. Now again, I’m not saying that I have a problem with what they charged me. They claimed that they did it on purpose and wanted it to look good and was replacing it for free. My gripe is, I couldn’t be there to supervise because of work and I had taken time off when they we going to do the job, but because of weather delays, the job was pushed back. I would come home to a job site in shambles. I had an issue with no supervision from their team on the site (Supervisor was sick), no communication as for what they were doing and no communication to their team as for what I wanted or what the supervisor agreed to do. They agreed to provide sealer for the concrete and bury my two down spouts which apparently no one knew about. I had this in writing on my quote. After talking to the owner, (which wasn’t pleasant, they spoke to me as if I should be grateful and that they were doing me a favor) they finally buried the down spouts and completed the concrete portion of the job. I came home to a very pissed off neighbor because their crew dragged their feet across their drive way and lawn. There was mud and dried up concrete everywhere. I spent the entire day scrubbing and cleaning their property. I don’t know why they wouldn’t scrape their feet on my property. The end of my drive way was trashed already and the owner agreed to come back and power wash it. (which never happened) The job was completed and I was left with a lot of clean up and with no sealer as promised. After many phone calls, someone dropped it off on porch. Fast forward 6 months later. the add on started to crack. Not big at first, but I was concerned, so I called them. They claimed that they didn’t guaranty that it wouldn’t crack and that it wasn’t big and nothing to worry about. That crack grew to the entire length of the new add on. It went right down the middle and through the stress cracks. The supervisor answered my calls at first advising that they haven’t opened yet and that they would be out to investigate. I advised that I wasn’t looking for a free repair and that I was willing to work something out. He told me not to worry and he would take care of me. That was three months ago and no one will return my phone calls or emails. At this point, I don’t think there’s anything that this company can do to make things better.

I’ve seen Sandman do probably 6 – 8 driveways in my neighborhood before I called them. Including my neighbor across the street. They came and did my driveway and did it AWESOME, and FAST. In and out, done. Superb job!
No crying here thinking Sandman has some control over the weather!

Sandman poured a new driveway at my residence last year… During the install, they recommended that the concrete be sealed after it cures for a week… and they suggested that they could take care of it. I agreed — and paid the extra to have it sealed. I was a bit surprised, when the next day they showed up without notification and sealed it… this, after recommending it cure for a week. Needless to say — this impatience on their part has created the worst looking driveway on my street… Parts of it are gray, parts white, parts green, parts look wet, parts look dry… Because of the pre-​mature sealing the driveway never cured correctly creating uneven and wave like patterns throughout… What a disaster.
I called them a month after — and they assured me that it would go away… I called this Spring — and they seemed like they wanted to help — but no one called back. I called again today — and got nothing but an answering machine.
Concrete work is an investment — don’t waste your time with guys that are going to make excuses and not back their work.

Don’t Bother!!! TWICE I have called and made appointments for them to come out and give us an estimate on a new driveway and TWICE they have completely blown off the appointment and DO NOT even bother to call and say they are sorry. Will NOT do business with them and would never recommend them.