Welcome to Elusive Concrete Developments. Here is our go to blog for all and any concrete specific information residing here in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Looking at getting a new concrete area for your place and considering using a cheaper concrete contractor?
Here is a list the ECD team have gathered to explain some of the reasons we advise you to skip the marketplace ads and call a real and licensed concrete contractor.
If you’re someone who has just moved into their new dream home or possibly even an older home that needs a new face lift, this blog is for you.
Most of our clients around Melbourne are either moving into their new dream-built homes and are searching far and wide for some bloody good concrete to be done or have been in their home for dogs’ years and are lifting the place up again! whichever one you are the most important thing for us, and you are protecting you from shonky concrete contractors. Sure, you have jumped on Facebook and seen Andy and Kevin down the block that are offering concrete jobs for cheap as chips! but why you think? what is it that brings these two chaps to be so much cheaper?
Well, the nightmare has only begun.
Most of these (contractors) are really no contractors at all, no licensing, no experience, and certainly no professionalism whatsoever. Andy and Kevin types of concreters are unfortunately destroying the concrete industry by giving many companies a bad rap!
Remember when these concreters do your home this is something that will be there forever, this is something you will look at everyday and regret.
Far too many unexperienced contractors are taking on their own concrete jobs in this day and age and destroying peoples love for their properties and leaving the owners in a world of hurt.
POOR QUALITY
The main reasons we really try to drive it into the ground about cheap concreters:
- pour lack of communication
- lack of care towards owners’ property
- in & out service
- very pour craftsmanship.
- NOT a registered company
- no insurance
- cheap materials
- cutting corners
9 times out of 10 cheaper contractors will generally always cut corners with your job, leading to a poor structural finish. Cheaper materials will always be used to achieve such low costs and pour craftsmanship of concrete is always promised.
Here are our main reasons we believe you need to save those headaches and just hire a professional from the get-go:
- Quality craftsmanship of works carried out
- high level of detail in all concrete projects placed
- fully insured
- fully licensed
- complete structural integrity
- no cut corners (correct number of steelworks, correct concrete depth)
- solid footings and foundations
- compressed surface prior to pouring
- saving money in the long run
- registered concrete company in Melbourne.
- BEST materials guaranteed.
- care in and around client’s property
- great communication
- correct concrete crack control joints cut into slab.
Saving money in the long run is a really big key point to be made here, we don’t want you going outside everyday looking at something you hate that you have spent your hard-earned money on just to want to rip it out of the ground in a months’ time.
Structural integrity is such a huge thing for us here at ECD, we completely pride ourselves on achieving the best finished concrete money can buy.
If your family want a beautiful area to go sit out on, park your cars, whatever it may be, we advise you if not us please choose a professional concrete service, concreting is an extremely hard trade to master and requires a lot of repetitive years to master this craft, don’t take your chances for a crappy cheap job just to save a few bucks! concrete is extremely heavy, strong and costly to pull up. It only wants and needs to be done once! thanks for reading and if you have any feedback feel free to shoot me an email and I’ll gladly get back to you as soon as possible.
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