DRIVES YOUR MOMMY

1 out of 5

Russell Graham

Do not deal with ImprintedDrives.com! We employed these in June 2010 after getting several quotes from different driveway installers. ImprintedDrives.com quoted us a reasonable - but not exactly cheap - £4000 for a 66 square metre imprinted concrete driveway. The two men who turned up introduced themselves as "John Buckland" and his son, also called John. Everything went well at first - until the very end of the job when large areas of unsightly white 'efflorescence' appeared all over our new black driveway, underneath the clear topcoat. We rang Imprinted Drives several times who kept promising to come and repaint the driveway. They never did. As time went on, and even before we had any winter frosts, the surface of the driveway began to break up. Now, in April 2011 it is a complete mess with large areas of exposed concrete clearly visible where the coloured surface has broken away. We tried to call them many many times on their landline and mobile numbers and on the few occasions when someone actually answered we were fobbed off and never called back. We also sent letters to their business address (which we now know is just an anonymous mailbox address in Brentwood - and we have had letters returned from there marked as "unknown" suggesting it doesn't even exist) and home address - but had no reply. They were, however, very quick to respond to an email - but only because I sent it from an address they didn't know and pretended to be interested in a new driveway!

Do not be fooled by their website - even the better parts of our driveway looked nowhere near as good as any of those in the photos. And a number of web links which pointed to various internet review pages have now conveniently been removed since bad reviews started appearing. It took a bit of internet research to find out where they live - on a gypsy site in Corringham, Essex. John has also traded as "John The Gardener", "Buckland & Sons", "Cotswold Driveways", "Cotswold Drives", and "Jacks Window Cleaning Service", always using the same 0800 and mobile numbers (he's not very clever at covering his tracks). He also has/had mailbox-type business addresses in Richmond and in Esher, Surrey. The names "John Buckland", "John Brand", "Steve Brand" and "Barry Brand" also crop up many times. I expect they all live in the same caravan. The only reason we're not suing him/them is because we very much doubt we'd ever get any money off g***. Steer clear of this company - you have been warned!

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5 out of 5

roger hemmings

thank you very much for the nice work you done on installing our new driveway and patio. We can recomend your company to anyone

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