Hired Arkadia after receiving over 20 replies, of which I invited 7 to provide a quoteof which only 3 turned up. I went with Arkadia because of Damien. His approach, proffesional attitude and none pushy style sold it for me. Unfortunately the job although completed on time was not completed to the standard we both expected, This was I was told due to the mixture of the tarmac they were sold. Good points were when Damien came and imspected the work at our request some weeks later, we had weed growing up through the tarmac and the tarma in areas were soft to touch and easily moved by fingers. Damien agreed, and had no problems agreeing the standard of finish was not what they would expect. He beived it was the batch of tarmac they were sold. He agreed that Arkadia would sort the problem. He wanted to take a sample of the tarmac to get back to the supplier. However whatever the outcome between the supplie and Arkadia, the driveway would be relaid at no cost to myself. His manner and professional was a credit to Arkadia. However the bad point was, at first when we reported the problem and appointment was agreed with Arkadia. This was not kept to, but an inspection was carried out without us being there. The reportback was it was ok, the weeds coming through the tarmac after only about 8 week were killed off by some weed killer, and that should sort it. The soft tarmac, was reported to being ok.
Overall if I could only recommend working with Arkadia if Damien or people lik Damien we available. He kept to his word, and drive 100 of miles to ensure a meeting was kept.