Corey’s Bobcatting

This guy claimed to prepare our site for residential construction and to do essential earth works after the slab was poured. What a nightmare! He clearly had no clue what he was doing – but he knew how to overcharge!

My husband had to drive into town to buy a battery for the faulty equipment he had brought with him. He was screaming abuse at his assistant the whole time he was working. He caused major flooding. The site was a deep dam on one side when he was ”done” and the concreters had to dig out with a shovel on the other side where he hadn’t excavated far enough.

He charged 5 times the going rate for the initial site works and for the further earth works, he sent two kids and a broken machine and charged hourly rates first for the time they spent trying to get the machine working, then for them to move dirt with shovels and a wheelbarrow because the machine was inoperable – an overcharge of at least $1200 if the work had been done properly, except it wasn’t!

There was no supervision and no follow-up inspection of the work the kids did. He was abusive when we advised that a neighbour jumped the fence to stop the kids pushing dirt over exposed steel in a manner that might have caused concrete cancer if they hadn’t been stopped. He was also abusive when we advised that one of the kids fell off the broken machine and he should pay more attention to safety rules. Responded to complaint with veiled threats and bullying. It has cost thousands to repair the massive damage he caused to the site. Trades working on the site joked about falling into ”Lake Lohrey”, but it wasn’t funny that large volumes of water lay against the slab.

He operated as a builder as well under ”Classy Homes Pty Ltd” and destroyed the lives of at least 17 families, leaving 15 jobs incomplete (mostly not even at frame stage after 3 years!) when the company liquidated and having just abandoned at least 2 projects part way through.