I have a 50 year old house (and lawn) that required the replacement or re-routing of one of my sprinkler valves and lines. I did not put in the sprinklers, so had no idea where each of the 12 lines actually ran under the lawn itself. There was a crack somewhere underground (caused by tree roots) and I had a huge leak, creating a swamp in my back yard. Norbert re-routed the sprinkler line, and extended other lines to cover the problem. It was no easy job, because the actual leak was never found, even though Norbert tried for over a two day period to find it. But the re-routing worked!

I was so happy with Norbert, that I recommended him to my daughter who had just purchased a new home in Rancho Cucamonga that had been a previous foreclosure property. It was a real mess, especially in the back yard, where the water main was broken, there were weeds 5 feet high, and the sprinkler system was not working at all. Norbert quickly replaced the water main (at a cost 1/10th of a plumber) so that they had water to the house again. He then cleaned up both the front and back yards, installed a new sprinkler system in the back yard; along with sodding the majority of the back yard and building a low cement block wall installed with shrubs inside. My daughter and her now husband were thrilled as they were on a very tight budget. Cost for them was under $3,000.

I now want to potentially remove a bunch of the grass in my large very front yard and replace it with crushed rock/shrubs and a drip system, leaving just a small patch of grass in front and install a low cement block as my daughter has. Norbert will be giving me an estimate, and I can’t wait! (April 1, 2011, Angie’s List)

Norbert is great – we discovered him just recently from all of his five star reviews on Yelp and they are well deserved. He was easy to work with: while he offered lots of good suggestions on what we could do with our yard, he was always careful to listen to what we wanted. He went above and beyond his original estimate, fixing several sprinklers that he found were broken without asking for more money even when I offered. He clearly cares about doing a good job. This was a big job – his team filled a huge dumpster with all the weeds they pulled and overgrown vegetation that they trimmed back.

He showed up every day early in the morning with his crew and I often saw him working side by side with them. He clearly respects his workers and they seem to work well together. Now that our yard is cleaned up so we can see what it actually looks like, I’m going to have him do another big job for us – bring in some dirt to level off some of our lot in spots, plant some new ground cover, install some drip lines, etc. I’m looking forward to working with Norbert again on this next job! (Jan. 13, 2014, Yelp)