McCabe's Nursery & Landscape Construction

BEWARE! I would stay away from this company. If you expect quality and a lasting product, McCabe's is not the company to use for any Landscape improvements in my opinion. The pictures attached are what happened less than a year and half of owning/using my outdoor gas firepit. When I reached out to them, I was told they only warrant for a year, and they would charge me to repair "their work". I had issues from the beginning and had to watch every detail of their work. The cracks in the concrete are less than two years old. Their workers even left trash, cigarette butts in my yard as they worked. My experience was the owner came out, fancy brochure, make you feel they do top quality work, but from my experience, did not get any of that. I even paid more with them than other quotes I received. I am so disappointed as we spent our hard earned money on what we hoped was going to be beautiful addition to our family backyard for years to come. BEWARE!! Please take a look at the photos.

Initial meeting with John McCabe went very well. Their quote was higher than others but their knowledge and design process impressed myself and my wife. A few months later, our start date was pushed back once and then again with zero communication. The job started about a month late but the crew did a great job and kept the site impeccable . I made the first two scheduled payments and handed over a third before I realized there were issues. First, the “high quality” lighting package they installed wasn’t working correctly and twas informed more hardware would be required at additional cost. Secondly, I noticed the stones they had installed on our two pillars were not the colors we chose. I thought perhaps this was a simple mixup but I was told that the stones we had approved were not available and McCabe’s decided to install a very different stone without our approval. At that point I stopped payment on the check. After several emails back and forth, McCabe’s offered to replace the stone. They also asked if they could receive a partial payment for the work minus the stone. Being near the end of the year, I felt this was fine. I made the one hour round trip to their office with the partial payment and again, was told now they wanted the entire balance. I handed the partial payment over and told them the final check would be given once the job was completed after in January. An hour ago I was sent via certified mail a letter threatening a lien on my property. This over a remaining of about 15 percent. We had strongly considered using McCabe’s again for our 15,000 sq ft backyard but following this horrendous treatment, I would never use nor recommend this company to anyone.