Cummings Construction Services LLC

This company underbid all others. A common driveway as created for 5 homes. For the first two years (and 2 winters) the road held up satisfactorily.

However, beyond those 2 years significant potholes developed. Neighbors repaired the damage, but this last winter basically destroyed the driveway. It is basically one long pothole.

Cannot recommend this company at any price.

Quality work done fast. Very easy to work with. Excellent price. Nothing but good things to say. We had a great experience and would without question recommend to others (and already have). We have a difficult driveway to do as well

I spent months trying to find the right driveway contractor. My 1999 house's driveway only lasted 10 years because of a shoddy installation, so I studied the fine details of how to get a good driveway installed. I wanted to make sure my new driveway would last. I wanted to replace the entire base with a new deep base and asphalt.
Then one day in 2014, Cummings shows up UNINVITED. He had already dug up much of my driveway before I arrived home. I hadn't hired him nor agreed to a price nor agreed to what I wanted. Cummings said there was a misunderstanding. I know he was anxious to move his equipment to a new job rather than bring it to his office. Wow, he was TOO ANXIOUS!
Reluctantly, with no other good alternatives since my driveway was already destroyed, I agreed to pay $14,250 for a 3/4 gravel and 1/4 asphalt driveway. This included a 2 year "guarantee". During the second winter (less than two years later), my driveway developed a significant crack. Cummings checked it out a few months later. He wondered if the earth had shifted??? He had a guy use a torch to heat the crack and "repair it" in about 15 minutes. This is the worst guarantee ever. Does Cummings think filling the crack is a proper solution? Next winter, the crack grew even larger, wider and led off in a new direction, too. I've called Cummings 3 times over last 6 months but he hasn't repaired the crack. He has claimed: 1) he is busy, 2) it has been over 2 years (even though this is the original 1.5 year crack what was never sufficiently repaired) and 3) I should have sealed the driveway.
This shoddy work has cost me many, many hours of stress. I hate to make such a big deal about the crack, but worry that I'm a sucker for accepting the shoddy work. I expect I'll be stuck with a large bill to fix my whole driveway sooner than I should. Why couldn't Cummings have just done a good job in the first place??? Repairing the shoddy work may require digging up the asphalt and base and starting over again. All so Cummings could save a few bucks with less base or less asphalt than required.
I've backed up all my text messages with Cummings and taken pictures. I've prepared my submission for small claims court. SUCH A PAIN! JUST WHICH HE DID A GOOD JOB!


Cummings has been back a couple times and proclaimed the crack fixed. But each winter the crack grows. Now (Jan 2018) 20 feet!

I showed Cummings new pictures of the crack and he responded via text
"Listen you were instructed to maintain the driveway as putting wax on your car. You're hard headed know-it-all ass didn't want to listen to The Professional but yet and still you can run off at the mouth and try to assassinate someone's character now you handle that driveway the best f****** way you know how mr. Know it all"

Cummings insists I should have sealed the driveway to prevent this problem.

They quoted the job and did the work in just a couple of days. I had called several other contractors and couldn't even get one to actually show up for a quote. The price seemed very reasonable as well.