The Irish Travelers have been around for YEARS.
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There was a crew that screwed up the front steps of pretty much every house on my block. They would come up and offer a great price to replace brick steps. I had just removed my own brick steps a few months before, and I knew what a pain it was to remove the bricks and masonry. I removed everything, including the foundation, because I was replacing with wooden steps, which my wife prefers... Yeah, I know...
This crew came in, and instead of removing the old steps, or at least the top course, they just went over them with new brick and faux concrete slates and raised the landing to just below the door opening. If they had to pitch the landing into the house to make it happen, they did so. If the bottom step wound up three inches too tall, they would just pile up dirt in front of it to hide it. Furthermore, they ran the slate landing right up to the ledger board under the door, and this mortar-to-wood connection wound up rotting out on pretty much every single house.
It was crap work. They did the house two down from me and pitched me on the same job. I went to look at the completed house, and saw the puddle against the ledger board, and said no thank you. I tried to warn my neighbors, but I was new in the neighborhood and they figured I didn’t know what I was talking about.
They were in the neighborhood for a couple of months and they just drove away.