Images taken August 15th and 16th. Work on driveway, carport, sidewalks, and porch started mid-March. The driveway and carport have not been used pending completion of the epoxy/stone composite topping to maintain it's integrity and so that it will not become contaminated with grease or oil before it is sealed. The situation has been at this stage for the better part of a month now. My concerns about slopes, proper surface preparation for the coating, use of a composite rock/epoxy mixture directly on top of minimally prepared concrete, type and placement of expansion joints in both the concrete and the coating, edge and corner coating, final finishing of coating, preventing water intrusion and ensuring drainage on the porch, were all stated to Mr. Jackson on several occasions and he always blows them off as unnecessary or unwarranted. Whenever I ask when they are going to geet back to Wheeler to finish the job, he always has a ongoing major job in another part of town as an excuse.

Contact surfaces were prepared by 'power washing' alone. No "expansion joints" were placed in the coating as Mr. Jackson had assured me he would. Since installed, the surfaces have been periodically hosed down for cleaning with a garden hose and what I am sure are newly loosened rocks continue to wash down the drive each time. The darker spots that are seen under the carport are relatively new and I an concerned that they represent mold growing between the epoxy aggregate and the concrete surface. The surface is extremely rough and 'pointed' to the degree that it cannot be walked on barefoot without feeling pain. Defects and gaps in the composite surface abound, and numerous areas of exposed concrete are easily seen. I've numerous times expressed great anxiety over the integrity of the bond with the underlying concrete and point out the water intrusion will weaken the bond and cause the coating to fail in time, EVERY time I speak to this issue, Mr. Jackson uncompromising counters that epoxy is not damaged by water and he appears to be totally unwilling to consider the issue that I am addressing; which is not the relationship between epoxy and water, but rather that of epoxy and unprepared concrete.

The rock aggregate directly contacts the front and bottom of the exterior surface of the lower aspect of the wooden mahogany window frame all the way across the front porch. Water intrusion, water retention, and inability to dry out because the airspace was obliterated will presumably guarantee wood rot. The final finishing of the aggregate mixture is very poor where it meets the front door threshold and the columns in the front of the house.

On 24-AUG, 1 & 1/2 palattes of St. Augustine grass were installed directly on top of a limited portion of the totally dead centipede grass. a large amount of dead centipede grass remains. Mr. Jackson argued adamently with me that the new grass they installed on 24-AUG was NOT St. Aug and that it was rather the same type that he had installed several months ago. To me the grass was totally different in appearance and Mr. Jackson ignored every comment about the varying grass appearance that I made Two garden centers confirmed that it is definitely St. Aug and not centipede. It is beyond my ability to comprehend that a contractor who claims expertise in garden and landscape construction would hard-headedly insist that the new grass is centipede and several time state that I was flatly wrong in my assumption. Even at that, some of the "new" St. Aug grass is far browner than are other new sod blocks. It is also clear that they simply placed the new grass on top of the dead grass. Several pros landscape experts told me today, 25-AUG, that you cannot do that and that the grass must be pulled up and properly relaid on properly prepard soil. Additionally, the soil on which the grass was originally installed was never graded after it was filled. Nor was it prepped properly for grass installation. Much of the entire yard is now like a roller coaster. The original grass was chosen and installed by Mr. Jackson without any discussion with us. We nevver asked him to do that nor were we quoted a price. It was a total shock to return home one evening see the yard 100% percent sodded with a grass type that we would not have selected in the first place. He grassed everything, even the then current graden areas which he had cleared of damaged plants, shrubs, and trees. Furthermore, Mr. Jackson demanded $5000 (10 palattes at $500 each) for the grass! His rational for this ridiculously high price was that he had to charge more for the grass because he had underestimated on the cost of the concrete, topping and the fill. After the grass was installed, it was readily apparent that he had not raised the grade nearly enough and the grass is measurably lower than the edges of the sidewalks and driveways in many locations. It now seems as though Mr. Jackson and his workers dumped fill, and applied applied materials with wholly inadequate planning and preparation. After the fact, I think that Mr. Jackson forced visible progress within an intentionally protracted time-frame in a calculated manner to gain leverage to drive up the cost of the project. Everything slowed down dramatically once he talked me into advancing the totality of his money.

Periodically, Mr. Jackson would approach me at my office with his ever present 'work-sheet' holder asking for accelerating and increasing amounts of money. His 'requests' took on the nature of subtle threats that he would not be able to finish the job if I did not ante up more money to cover his underestimated costs. He gave me volumenous and self-agrandizing assurances concerning his intent and his expertise, as ihe hustled me into dipping deeper into my bank account, but, as time passed he has become much more argumentative and uncompromising, and far less quick return to my home to complete the job and correct significant errors.

This project is no closer to completion now than it was well over a month ago. Originally Mr. Jackson told me that he would be in and out and totally finished within a few weeks. The only thing that is 'finished' is that he has managed to talk me into paying him in full! That event occurred when I wrote him a final check on 30-JUL.