Is there a chance that the client hasn't thought it all the way through? This has been a bit of an eye opening discussion for me. At my last house, I asked the person who poured our driveway if they would pour a patio for us after we closed on the house. We agreed on the price and he did the work a few weekends later. At that time I was pretty happy with how it worked out.

After reading this, I realize that there were a few other things that happened that I'm not so happy about. He did not own the company, so I'm not sure where he got the skid steer to do a little grading, nor the pins to hold the forms. I guess it is possible that he rented the skid steer, which is what I assumed at the time, but now I'm not so sure. Also, I'm sure that his boss did not get any sort of cut from the work done...

CJ