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"Michael of Absolute Concrete was very responsive to our needs. Although our project was fairly small, he was able to fit it in to his busy schedule to meet our timeline. He and his partner answered all of our questions and it was a pleasure to deal with them."

"After showing up several hours later than promised, and too late to complete the work as the sun was setting and temperature dropping into 40s, then not showing up the next day as promised, I had to call to find out what was going on. Again the workers did not showing up at the time promised, but were several hours late, and then the work performed appeared rushed and was very poor quality. The seal coating completely missed a couple large areas of the driveway, the grass was not edged back from the drive leaving the edges of the drive untreated with sealcoating, and I was left with questions about whether some of the cracks that were not filled should have been (to me some of the unfilled cracks looked to be larger than 1/4 inch). I texted pictures to Tim of the work, and he had his employees come back out to completely redo the driveway, and he came out himself to supervise and help. There were many different excuses given by Tim and the employees about the reasons for the poor communication and poor quality of the initial work (previous jobs took longer than expected, worker's partner was at hospital because of sick relative, two employees were new with one that had no sealcoating experience, etc). However the final work completed was A+ quality work and looks almost new again. Received many compliments on the final job, and my neighbors had Central Paving and Sealcoating do their driveway. The company came through and made everything right in the end, and we would most likely call them again when our driveway needs another sealcoating, but we would do so knowing not to expect excellent communication and punctuality. <br />"

"I'm very please with my new driveway, patio and front porch. <br />"

"Did a very good job cleaning mold and dirt off the siding. <br />"

"<p>We had a new sunroom installed, and wanted a new concrete patio to go along with it.</p> <p>First, the positives:</p> <p>Contacted Mr. Mabe after seeing him listed here on Angie's List.  He came out to our house, inspected the site, took measurements and gave us a quote.  To his credit Mr. Mabe made some suggestions that improved the design of the patio (like rounding the corners, and such).  He was also flexible enough to alter the proposal to increase the size of the pad at the very last minute (the day they arrived to start excavating.). Additionally, when it became apparent that the BOBCAT that they were using to haul rock and concrete was leaving ruts in my yard, Mr Mabe and his helper used a wheel barrow to move rock and concrete from my front driveway to the rear of our house (to the patio site).</p> <p>Due to delays finishing the installation of our sunroom, we didn't start the patio project until November of 2013. The proposal was signed on November 12th. The actual work started about a week later.</p> <p>The ground was excavated, the forms were laid, and the rock base was spread.  All this went off with out a hitch.</p> <p>Now the negatives:</p> <p>After the forms were laid, and rock spread, the concrete truck arrived to pour the concrete.  Because of the late start of the project, it was now the 3rd week of November and we were trying to finish before the weather turned bad. The day of the pouring, the weatherman predicted rain late that evening. We decided to risk it, and started pouring.  Toward the end of the pouring, it started to rain. Mr Mabe scrambled to finish 'leveling' the concrete before the sun went down. He was kneeling on a pad, trying to trowel the pad as level as he could. When he finished, he didn't have any plastic to cover the new concrete, and had to borrow some from me.</p> <p>When he finished and was packing up, he asked for the balance of his payment (50% of $1300.00).  I told him I didn't like the way he rushed the final troweling (he left obvious trowel marks, and I have a knee-pad impression right in the middle of my pad), and that I wanted to hold 10% of the payment until he came back some other day to finish it.  Mr Mabe gave me a hard-luck story of needing all the money to pay material costs, and offed to annotate the written proposal to say he would "come back after the weekend and patch any areas needed from the rain or resurface the entire pad". I agreed, and gave him the balance of my bill.</p> <p>The following week came and went without any word from Mr Mabe.  I wasn't too upset, the temperature had dropped, and it was unlikely that we would use our new patio until the following spring.  I assumed Mr Mabe would contact me to schedule a return visit. </p> <p>Nothing.  Finally, I called him on the 6th of March, got his voice mail and left a message asking him to call and schedule a return visit.  No response. What followed was a game of me leaving voice mails every few days until the 24th of March, when Mr Mabe returned my called, explained that his cell phone 'broke', and wasn't aware of the calls I had made, and promised to come out in a couple of days.  Nope. Never showed up.  This farce continued.  I would call, leave voice mail, he return my call, and promised to show up. Never did.  Finally, in April (I forget the date), Mr Mabe shows up, and we go to the back yard to look at the concrete pad he poured.  He looked at it, said "That's not too bad, we can fix that", and left.  We have NEVER heard from Mr Mabe since.</p> <p>I am upset with the quality of his workmanship, but I am d*** mad being lied to, direct to my face.</p> <p>Word to the Wise, if you work with this gentleman, under no circumstances, pay the full balance until you are satisfied with his work.   </p> <br />"

"We bought a 1920s house that needed a new kitchen. Mike gave us a very detailed estimate and recommended a kitchen designer to help me design the project. We decided to add a doorway through an exterior brick wall to create a doorway into the adjoining sunroom instead of removing the wall between the kitchen and formal dining room. This maintained the original character of the house while still giving some "flow" into the former sunroom. The walls and floors of both rooms were taken down to the studs and the new foam insulation was sprayed inside the walls of the sunroom. A new exterior door was installed out to the back porch, The entire kitchen and sunroom were sheet rocked and new tile floors installed to both rooms. The kitchen was wired, plumbed for gas and water and beautiful kitchen cabinets and granite installed. One thing Mike Von Behren is particularly good at is replacing/restoring the molding, baseboards and door frames to match the original millwork in the house. The finished kitchen/family room is a beautiful addition to this older home and we have enjoyed it very much. Working with Mike was a pleasure-communication was great and he is very detailed and has a great team. I would definitely recommend Von Behren for any home building/remodeling projects where quality, attention to detail and excellent communication are important concerns. <br />"

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"They were absolutely wonderful. Will sure recommend them"

"I know this is not the right spot for this, but Angie's List did not have the correct info on the address for the construction.  The building was constructed at Bicycle Doctor, 1037 N. 5th St., Springfield IL."