Sorry to say that I had a bad experience with Syed. Images of the state our decking a matter of weeks after completion and screenshots of rude WhatsApp correspondence from him can be viewed in my job posting.
After the decking was completed, I was initially pretty impressed by low price and look, impression he was friendly, and left positive feedback accordingly (I might add after being chased to several times!). However, problems started within a week. Weeds (e.g. thorns and nettles) started growing through the cracks. Syed had not done any ground cover to the decking, despite this being normal practice and me requesting it when he came over to quote due to weeds in the area. He tried to blame me for this, saying 1) I hadn’t kept the decking clean. 2) the weeds were growing in from side and my fault for not completely gardening the surrounding area (see pictures of growing up in middle of decking and FYI nettles/ thorns don’t grow sideways) 3) Said I had told him I had already done the ground cover (again not true, and given they were digging down for foundations, surely this would be apparent!).
I will now have to hire someone to redo ground cover, costing me more money than planned. It is very disappointing, and unpleasant to be spoken to rudely and for him to not take responsibility for the problems.
Again, pictures are on my job posting to show all of this. Syed may have come out a cheaper quote, but I will now have to pay more as the job was half done.