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10/10

Connor and his crew did an amazing job with my front yard and back yard. When I hired Connor, I discussed it with multiple contractors because the job was big and complicated. I am a person who likes to get things delivered with very high quality so I wanted to hire someone who can meet the quality bar. Connor was very professional and transparent with the whole process. He took his time to explain all the questions I had to make sure that I made the right choice. After the work began, Connor and the team continued sawing the same professional attitude all the way. The work was big and I was doing it for the first time but whenever I had to make some changes to agreed upon work, Connor was so patient to explain the difference and work with me to make it happen so that I am happy with the final product. As with all big projects, we had obstacles during the work but he worked with me and helped me find a way out without any frustration. In the end, the work was completed exactly as I had hoped and very much in line with the timelines promised. I am constantly getting great comments from anyone visiting my home. If you are looking for a general contractor for your work, I highly recommend Conscape and you can be confident that your work will be completed with high quality and promptly.

Approximate cost of services:
$150,000.00
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Company Response

We greatly appreciate your positive feedback about Connor and our team's work on your front and backyard. Ensuring high-quality results and maintaining transparent, professional communication is at the core of what we do at Conscape Canada Inc. It was a pleasure working with you to meet your expectations and address any changes needed during the project.

8/10

So, I saw lots of reviews and I have experienced both sides of it during my basement renovation. I am putting few points from my point of view here. Design ------- As metioned by many in the reviews and accepted by company itself, communication is one part Penguin has to work tremenduously. My design rep who signed the contract with me over-promissed so many things, provided half baked information and did so much poor job in coming up with first design. They were my first contact for basement rennovation and I went with them cosidering their big name that I will get experts to design who will best in their line of work. I was so happy on the day when I signed the contract. My biggest mistake was not to go line by line on the contract as I was told by rep that contract contains everything we discussed. Later on when I started visiting various basements, I realized that my design was so poor and rep wasted so much space so that actual usable and finished area was so small. When I contacted the him, he made adjustement based on my comments and that is when I started getting change orders with additional costs. Design Interview ------------------- During the desing interview, I came to know about so many surprises by the lady that my original design rep forgot to mention. I had to cancel my whole bar due to miscommunication by the rep. I had to travel 2 hours to their office multiple times to talk to their owner on multiple such over-promised items. I had opted for ethernet cables, 7.1 surrond system and somehow rep formgot to mention that in the original contract and when I reminded him, again I was sent big change order. This rep has so much communication problem that after sending multiple emails, texts, calls, I will get response after days which is also out of context. I was very satisfied to talk to the owner who was very sensible person and somehow we were come to some conclusion. Financing ----------- I dealt with Sergie on my finance and my interaction with him was the best among all the interactions so far. He was so responsive, helpful and patient to deal with all the issues on the road and helped me a lot to keep moving and getting financing done. I have to mention that my design rep overpromised again on the finance and I didn't get all the terms as promised but Sergie did his best to get us to where we are. If this guys would not have put so much efforts, I would have cancelled my contract long back. Implemenation ----------------- I worked with Walter when actual work started as site manager. I have to give credit to him as he really inherited a mess created by his friends. As I understood, Walter has to work within the boundaries of the documentation passed to him as he was not originally involved in promising to me, he did wonderful jobs in keeping everything afloat. He might not be the best communicator but he was able to work between various problems and help me out to finish my work. He was responsive enough to keep me upto date on what is going on the background and keep me upto date on who is going work next day and so on. We started work on 5th July. All of my work got completed around 25th August. Due to some problem, I still have to get my stairs but I understand that there are circumstances even they cannot control. As far as they are finishing it in the promised timeframe, I am happy. Overall, I am happy with how the end product is turned out. I hope, I get good warraty support (I was promised 2 years after completion date and I hope there is no surprise there...:)). I have seen many basements and I can cleary see difference in the work. I will definitely recommand them to my friends due to quality I got at the end of the job but I will have to make sure that I am there with them when initial contract is being built and design is being finalized as I don't trust anyone coming for first design interview...:) Thank You, Hiren

Approximate cost of services:
$50,000.00
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Company Response

Hiren, we are happy to see you happy with the finished product. As noted by many, and taken absolutely seriously by us, we are working to improve effective communication across all channels. As the company has grown quickly this year, we'll be the first to admit some of our infrastructure has not kept pace. We now have daily process improvement meetings, upgraded training proticals and less tolerance of those who make mistakes that affect us and our clients. We're not perfect yet, and while errors are only occurring on a small percentage of jobs, we need to work toward being as perfect as we can be. It is a challenge we accept. Thank you for the feedback and your understanding, it is much appreciated.