THE CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS
**CAUSES FOR DAMAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE**
MY DRIVEWAY...
I HAVE OWNED THIS HOME, WHICH IS A NEW CONSTRUCTION, BUILT BY ELLIS FAMILY CONSTRUCTION, WAS ONLY 21 MONTHS IN AGE WHEN THE FIRST ICING OF ANY WINTER HIT IT. THE OUTCOME? MINE AND MY NEIGHBORS DRIVEWAY BOTH WERE DAMAGED, MY NEIGHBORS WORSE THAN MINE AS THERE ARE TREES THAT PROVIDE LARGE SHADE OVER THEIR DRIVEWAY. THE LARGE SHADE, DOESN’T ALLOW SUNLIGHT TO NATURALLY THAW OUT THE ICE, THUS, THE ICE JUST STUCK AROUND FOR LONGER.
THE LARGE CRACK BENNIE LEFT FOR ME...
THAT CRACK 21 MONTHS LATER...
DAMAGE TO MY DRIVEWAY...
BENNIE'S REPLY VIA EMAIL?...
BENNIE ELLIS WAS SCREENING MY EMAILS...
TRUST.
WOULD YOU TRUST SOMEONE THAT YOU KNEW FOR A FACT WAS SCREENING YOUR CONTACT ATTEMPTS? BENNIE WAS SCREENING MY EMAILS FROM THE GETGO. I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS TO ME ABOUT SOMEONE THAT OWES ME A WARRANTY, WHAT DOES IT SAY TO YOU?
BUT WAIT, BENNIE SAID "PRESSURE WASH IT"...
NEIGHBOR'S DRIVEWAY...
ON JANUARY 05, I TOOK A PHOTO TO JOKE WITH MY NEIGHBOR OUT OF TOWN THAT THE WIND WAS IN HIS TRASH, WHICH, IS THE ONLY PHOTO I HAVE OF THEIR DRIVEWAY BEFORE THE DAMAGE. SEE ANY DAMAGE ON JANUARY 05? ME EITHER.
ONCE I DISCOVERED THE DAMAGE TO MY DRIVEWAY, I SPOKE TO MY NEIGHBOR AND HE LET ME KNOW HE REACH OUT TO BENNIE AS WELL AND THAT HE HAD STOPPED BY HIS HOUSE. MY NEIGHBOR STATED THAT BENNIE WAS “OFF PUTTING” AND QUICKLY GAVE AN ASSESSMENT OF “SALT CAN’T TOUCH DRIVEWAYS, YOU PUT SALT ON YOUR DRIVEWAY.” I LET HIM KNOW “WOW, THAT’S THE EXACT SAME THING HE EMAILED ME WHEN HE CAME BY HOME, UNANNOUNCED AGAIN EARLY IN THE MORNING. BENNIE SENT ME AN EMAIL STATING “YOUR DRIVEWAY IS SPALDING DUE TO SALT”. I DON’T SALT. I CAN SNAP PICS OF ALL MY DRIVEWAYS AND EVEN IF YOU SALT, IT DOES NOT DESTROY A DRIVEWAY LIKE MY NEIGHBORS IN JUST ONE ICING, UNLESS THERE IS AN UNDERLINING ISSUE WITH HOW IT WAS INSTALLED.
NEARLY A DOZEN CONTRACTERS IN THE MONTH OF MARCH LOOKED AT MY DRIVEWAY AND MY NEIGHBORS AND ALL HAVE STATED, TO INCLUDE THE ONE THAT REPLACED MY NEIGHBORS “THE CONCRETE GOT TOO WET”.
I WILL BE UPLOADING MANY MORE IMAGES AND VIDEOS OF MY NEIGHBORS DRIVEWAY.
WORSE IS, WHAT’S TO COME LATER ON THIS PAGE, IS SEVERAL DRIVEWAYS ON HOMES BUILT BY BENNIE ELLIS, HAVE DAMAGE OR WERE PROPERLY INSTALLED AND I HAVE THE PROOF.
NEIGHBOR'S DRIVEWAY JANUARY 05 2025:
THE DAMAGE AFTER JANUARY 05...
BENNIE KNEW ABOUT A LARGE CRACK MY NEIGHBOR'S HOME HAD, BEFORE THEY CLOSED. CHECK THE VIDEO OUT!
SINCE I HAVE OWNED MY HOME, I HAVE MET NEARLY EVERY SINGLE VENDOR THAT HAD A HAND IN MY HOME. ONE OF THOSE VENDORS, WORKED A CHAIN FLOORING VENDOR AND HE PERSONALLY INSTALLED THE CARPET IN BOTH HOMES, ONE IN 2022 AND MINE IN 2023. HE TOLD ME SEVERAL TIMES THAT WHEN HE WAS INSTALLING THE CARPET AT MY NEIGHBORS HOME IN 2022, HE WAS SMOKING ON A BREAK AND SAW A LARGE CRACK FROM CORNER TO CORNER ON THEIR DRIVEWAY. NOTE, THEY HAD NOT CLOSED ON THE HOME YET. THIS VENDOR ASKED BENNIE WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO ABOUT THE CRACK AND HE STATES “BENNIE SAID HE WAS GOING TO REPAIR IT”, BUT BENNIE DID NOT.
BENNIE ELLIS LIES SO MUCH, WHAT CAN HE POSSIBLY BE TRUSTED WITH?
CAUSES OF CONCRETE DAMAGE
ACCORDING TO NEARLY TEN CONTRACTORS, THEY HAVE ALL STATED THEIR OWN OPINION AND FOR LEGAL PURPOSES, THESE ARE EITHER ON PAPER IN THE QUOTE OR I AM PROVIDING THE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THEIR INSPECTION. THE FOOTAGE WILL HAVE THEIR BUSINESS BLURRED OUT BUT YOU CAN HEAR THEIR REASONS FOR DAMAGE CLEARLY AND SEE THEM WALKING AROUND MY DRIVEWAY AND ALSO, INSPECTING MY NEIGHBORS UNTIL HE REPAIRED HIS IN MAY 2025.
THEY HAVE ALL STATED THAT THE CONCRETE BECAME TOO WET, AND OR THEY BROOMED THE CONCRETE TOO EARLY, AND OR THE SETTLING IS OFF DUE TO GRAVEL USED (LARGE CRACK AREA), AND OR THEY HAVE ALL POINTED RAIN DROPS ON THE CONCRETE, AND OR THEY POINTED OUT PINE NEEDLES FROM THE TREES IN MY NEIGHBORS AND MORE. THE BOTTOM LINE; NEGLIGENCE DUE TO IMPROPER INSTALLATION.
BENNIE ELLIS IN EMAIL HAS TRIED TO SAY “IT LOOKS LIKE SOME SORT OF SALT GOT ON IT”, WELL, WHY ISN’T THE REST OF MY DRIVEWAY CRUMBLED THEN, ESPECIALLY ON THE SIDEWALK, WALK WAY TO THE DRIVER SIDE AND PASSENGER SIDE OF VEHICLE? WHY IS THE DAMAGE HERE, THERE AND OVER THERE; MEANING, NOT IN ONE PARTICULAR AREA TO SHOW A PATTERN.
ALL CONTRACTORS HAVE STATED IN OUR AREA, WE DID NOT HAVE ANY ICING IN 2022, 2023, 2024 AND THE FIRST BEING IN 2025 IN JANUARY THEN AGAIN IN FEBRUARY.
BENNIE STATED TO PRESSURE WASH THE DRIVEWAY. JUST PUTTING A WATER HOSE ON THE DRIVEWAY, BREAKS IT UP WORSE. IF I WERE TO FOLLOW HIS INSTRUCTIONS, MY DRIVEWAY WOULD BE WAY WORSE.
AIR POCKETS, IN CONCRETE...
AIR POCKETS, IN THE SIDEWALK? THERE’S SOMETHING YOU DON’T SEE EVERYDAY. FIRST CONTRACTOR TO COME TAKE A LOOK AT MY DRIVEWAY POINTED THESE OUT AND HONESTLY, I WAS SHOCKED. HOWEVER, AFTER GETTING TO KNOW BENNIE BETTER, I’M NOT SHOCKED.