“They wanted to remove the barn slab, the barn had burned. They said they had to take it down a minimum of 6 feet below the foundation.”
My God, are you serious? Whatever could possibly justify that? A gold vein under the barn?
They claimed everything was toxic, arsenic, specifically.
Again, they were paid by the ton, that was their real motivation. If you pay someone by the hour, the job will take many hours. If you pay someone by the written word, they will write a lot of words.