September 26, 2020 Central Paving of Indianapolis Performance Review My experience with Central Paving of Indianapolis was not a good one. I have been an Angie’s List paying member for the past 12 years, until such time as payment was no longer required. I had relied on Angie’s List for reputable, honest, professional, knowledgeable, businesses from which to choose, to employ when I needed professional work performed on my home, my yard, etc. Central Paving of Indianapolis was one of the businesses on the list. THAT’S THE ONLY REASON I HIRED THIS COMPANY TO PERFORM THE WORK. I wanted a company I could trust to complete the job with a satisfactory outcome. Let me begin by saying that I hired Central Paving of Indianapolis (CP) to perform the following: 1. Sealcoat my driveway, for which a written estimate was provided. 2. Repair the culvert pipe (at the driveway ditch) for which a verbal estimate was provided by William, the sales representative. Sealcoating was applied in this way: They sprayed one part of the driveway and used a squeezy on the other, resulting in two different shades of color on the driveway. The edges of the driveway where they used the squeezy dried to a darker color than the middle of the driveway that was sprayed. The driveway appeared ‘unevenly seal coated’ which looked like there was more sealer on some areas than on others. Thank God I did not pay for the work when finished because William had told me that he would bill me. I also had work done on my culvert pipe crack that needed repair. The repair, orally offered and agreed to, was as follows: A metal plate would be placed at the end of the pipe, and a ‘seal over’ using hot asphalt would be applied. What they did instead was to place a plastic bucket inside the area of the pipe so that water could continue to flow through. I questioned the efficacy of the repair at the time (the plastic bucket) and asked if that repair would be guaranteed, and the supervisor on the site said “Yes,” it would be. I called William at that time for assurance of the guarantee and he told me the repair is guaranteed. My concern was that since the culvert pipe repair was not in the written estimate, how will I know that the guarantee would be honored. He said he was going to bill me and that the guarantee will be included in writing at the time of billing, to which we both agreed. The culvert pipe repair was performed several weeks before the seal coating. The problem with Central Paving of Indianapolis began when the seal coating (of two different shades) was completed and they wanted me to pay Roy, the man who had applied the seal coating. I told Roy, who called Kathy, the business owner, that I had been told by William that I was going to receive a bill that would include the written guarantee for the repair of the culvert pipe. My unsatisfactory rating for CP is rooted in the following: 1. Didn’t want to guarantee the culvert pipe repair work in writing after assuring to do so. 2. Resisted correcting the 2 shade seal coat problem. 3. It took the refusal to not pay until the seal coat work was corrected and the repair work guaranteed in writing as promised, for the 2nd seal coat to be applied. The driveway is still not uniformly seal coated after the second coat of sealer was applied. 4. Adding insult to injury, the sealer continues to come off the driveway in some areas. 5. Kathy, the owner of CP, has refused to come out and see firsthand what is going on even after receiving pictures from me. She has given me a range of excuses ie the driveway was old; that I was told that the driveway needed to be replaced. If in fact this was their initial assessment, why didn’t they provide me with a detailed estimate for the work? I received ONE written estimate from CP where it was never communicated to me, orally, written, implied, or hinted that my driveway needed to be replaced. My driveway is in good condition, and I would conclude that they would not have seal coated it if it were not.