Absolutely.

If your very dissapointed in the work I'd suggest calling your bank and putting a stop payment on the check, then calling the man and telling him what you did. Let him know that you'll immediately cut him a check for 90 percent of the work to deposit, and pay the balance once the cosmetic work has been handled. If he acts like he doesn't want to do anything except collect in full tell him he gets nothing and to sue you. The truth of the matter is that it really doesn't matter whether you like the work or not. It has been done and your required to pay regardless of the quality of craftsmanship. You won't win the suit if he sues you but you'll have leverage right here and now. If he accepts the money he got 90 percent of the money for the services rendered to pay the Redi-mix company, his form and steel suppliers, and his hands. More importantly, you've got 10 percent of the amount to hold over him to ensure that the repairs are handled. Chances are he'll take the coin and when he does he obligates himself to handle the repairs by entering into the verbal agrrement with you to handle these issues. Judging by what I read in your post I doubt if he'll even come back even when your holding 10 percent of the invoice. IMO, he used an old diamond blade and no water when he made his saw cuts. We cut concrete quite consistantly and seldomly have chips break off larger than fingernail clippings. just my .02 See ya, Kelly

We just had our deck and cantilever edge on our vinyl pool done last Friday...before the liner was put in. Our PB said that the cantilever edge is tricky to do and wanted to do it before the liner went in. He sub contracted a particular guy to do it who does a very good cantilver job. PB said not many people can do it well. I'm very pleased w/ours-no "chunks/holes" in it, and it's nice and even. So far, so good...

Sounds like a good solution (from my non-experienced point of view) And a real decision to be made on the color. (kinda like you would've had to make had you chosen brick or stone coping... still would've had to make that decision) Do you want it to stand out? What if it doesn't look THAT good? For whatever reason, do you want to accent the border of your pool? Will the job they do be worth calling attention to? (or would you be just as happy with a non-accent around the pool as you originally planned?) good luck with your decision... Steve