Lady Shares Landscaping Fail After $4,000 Privateness Fence (Unique)

A Nashville content material creator is sharing the expectation versus the truth of her $4,000 funding into what a landscaping firm stated could be a privateness fence shrouded in varied timber and hydrangeas.

Content material creator Maddie Perry shared a video on TikTok exhibiting the rendering given to her by a Nashville-area landscaping firm — and the top outcomes as soon as she paid the corporate greater than $4,000 to finish the job.

“This was my expectation,” Perry says within the video, gesturing to the rendering, which confirmed a fence totally lined by a row of full timber, round bushes and luxurious hydrangeas,

“And that is what I acquired,” Perry then says with amusing, exhibiting a photograph of the top consequence — a row of inconsistently spaced, extraordinarily sparse timber that measure roughly one foot tall. The fence that she was trying to cowl with vegetation stays clearly seen within the last picture, with Perry including: “I hate being an grownup.”

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Perry tells PEOPLE she had been in search of further privateness alongside the fence in her yard, which she shares with a neighbor.

“I had heard good issues about this explicit landscaping firm (one other native influencer truly posted about them a number of months earlier than) and I had them come out to offer me an estimate,” Perry says.

The landscaper “measured the size of the fence and stated I would want about 6 timber and 9 hydrangeas to fill the area,” Perry says.

He then despatched her the rendering, together with a $6,500 quote.

“I stated my finances was round $4,500 and he lowered the worth with out altering any of the tree quantities or sizes,” Perry says, “which I assumed was odd however I went with it.”

From there, nevertheless, “it simply went downhill.”

The landscaper requested Perry to pay in full as a way to get a date scheduled for the set up, so she did.

“After that, my level of contact was extraordinarily laborious to come up with — he stopped responding to my texts and by no means scheduled an set up date,” she tells PEOPLE.

Ultimately, the landscaper did come, although the crew that got here on set up day “had no thought the place something would go [or] what the plan was,” Perry says.

“I needed to stroll them by means of the idea and so they acquired to digging,” Perry says. “It solely took about quarter-hour, which was stunning to me as a result of I assumed they’d a variety of labor to do.”

As soon as she noticed the completed product, nevertheless, she understood why it did not take a lot time.

“Not solely have been the ‘tremendous timber’ and ‘massive hydrangeas’ nothing like what was pictured in my quote, however they have been planted in a crooked line and there was completely zero landscaping completed,” Perry says. “Somewhat than offering a neat line of mulch just like the quote instructed, they merely dug holes and left it at that. It regarded like I may have completed it, which is strictly what I did not need and why I employed knowledgeable to do it.”

Whereas Perry concedes that the small shrubs planted will ultimately develop into timber, she says that the top result’s “unacceptable,” notably when making an allowance for how a lot she paid.

“It is going to most likely be 4-5 years for the timber to be the dimension of those within the preliminary quote. To not point out, the six timber and 9 flowers weren’t almost sufficient to fill the area alongside the fence,” she says.

Whereas Perry hasn’t publicly named the landscaper — and says she is uncertain if he is seen her viral video on TikTok — she says she did e-mail the corporate to precise her disappointment. She nonetheless hasn’t heard again.

And whereas she regrets the expense, she provides that the expertise taught her an essential lesson.

“Sadly, I’ve realized the laborious method that good assist might be laborious to seek out and I will likely be tackling the yard alone now,” she says.