Landscaper Danny Gove

I hired Danny Gove to do a $9,000.00 patio/landscape job for me.  It was improperly done but not obvious until after the first rain and I had already paid him.  Numerous messages left for him went unanswered.  Eleven, to be exact.  I won a judgment against him in small claims court but those are all but  impossible to collect. Maybe my posting this will help someone else avoid all the problems I had.  Not to mention what it cost me to have it done over.  And he seemed like such a nice guy!  Boy, was I fooled.

Avoid doing business with Danny Gove Pro Landscape Services Bryan, TX

I hired him to install a waterfall/pond in my backyard.

He collected the final half payment from my wife when I was out of town.

When I returned, I found a non functioning waterfall powered by a buried extension cord plugged into my outside house outlet. This is a very dangerous electrical installation.

In his response to my BBB complaint he stated an extension cord is perfectly safe when plugged into a GFCI outlet. Notice in the picture above that he removed the ground prong from the extension cord plug. I’m not an electrician but I believe doing that negates the GFCI protection.

He charged me for a UV light. It was never installed.

He told me my only maintenance would be cleaning a filter once every six months. To my surprise he didn’t install a timer for running the waterfall or self water filling valve to make it maintenance free. When I pointed out what was missing, he agreed to install. He never did.

I agreed to hire him if he also installed my electronic pet fence. This is a picture of the uninstalled pet fence.

Every time I called, his response was that his crew told him they did that. Then he just started ignoring my phone calls. I sent him a registered letter. He refused delivery. I also hired him to fix my sprinkler system. He deducted the $199.18 from my first payment for the waterfall even though I paid him for the sprinkler service with a separate check. He said he would return my $199.18 over payment. He never did.
Now 5 months after he was paid in full, I have a non-functioning waterfall with a green pond.

This guy presents himself as an honest businessman. Nothing could be further from the truth. I filed a complaint with the BBB and his response was one lie after another. Don’t make the same mistake I did, steer clear of Danny Gove. He will also likely change his company name again but he is still Danny Gove.

Update 1: Thanks to my BBB report Danny Gove decided to try and make this waterfall functional. Now over 2 months after his attempts, I still have a non-functional waterfall.

Update 2: It’s now been almost a year. I gave up on getting Danny Gove to do anything. No matter what he does it’s half ass.

The UV system he installed never lasted past a good rain because he buried the transformer below ground level and it would always end up burning out after shorting out. His last trip here he took the entire broken UV system including the UV bulb. I ended up having to buy and install the whole UV system including the bulb. I had to buy and install a large plastic box to put the UV transformer in. I had to replace the float valve with a float valve I bought from the catch basin manufacturer.

Now as you see above the waterfall has fallen apart. The rocks you see along the rubber liner I stacked there. I had to move my fish and drain the pond. So far 6 fish have died.

I have to hire someone to mortar the stones.

Until other half ass work done by Danny Gove falls apart, I finally have a functioning waterfall/pond almost a year later. Many thanks to Puma for their great work in repairing the stone work.

If you need any stone work done, I recommend you contact Jose Gonzales @ 979-571-7714. None of his work was half ass.