Johnny came out to look at drainage trouble we were having in our basement from the front of our house. We were told that we needed a French drain installed in front landscape bed to help water flow away from basement wall. Told our mature trees and landscape shrub roots were cause. Work was scheduled and sort of completed. We were left with a French drain that was only dug deep enough to be covered with River stone. The 2 trees were cut down, but stumps left. Some of the shrubs were dug up, but most were just cut down and are just stumps. Even knowing all of our landscape “had” to go (according to them) none of this solved our original issue. In fact it made it worse because our downspouts were now tied to a perforated pipe in the French drain so all the water coming down off the roof and into the downspouts was now going into the ground below causing our drainage issue to get worse. So after all the money spent for the work and losing all of our beautiful landscape, (which we now know had nothing to do with the issue) we were left with a bigger more expensive issue than we started with. We have now had it all fixed and the first thing that was done was to remove the ridiculous French drain that this company installed. When I reached out to Johnny, he did not offer to come look at the work or even try to offer a fix. I’m now looking for a reputable landscape designer to remove stumps and replant this bed.
