Business ProfileforSteve Beaton Plumbing

I called Steve Beaton to repair a main water leak. The previous plumber/ located estimated the leak within a 8 ft area near the outside of the house going into the foundation. I as a property owner and not a professional plumber was hoping it wasn't under the foundation as it couldn't be pinpointed to an exact 1 ft area. After Steve's crew did some air and water tests he diagnosed it to be leaking under the foundation. When the applied air to the pipe I and Steve noticed air bubbles outside the foundation. Instead of digging 6 inches down there, he decided to tear my walls open and have me and one of his workers dig around in a completely different area. After a couple of hours of myself and his laborer digging another worker showed up and I told him about the bubbles. He immediately went over to that area and dug it up under the grass and found the leak, I asked him if it made that much sense to him to look there first, why hadn't the owner Steve done it. He stated to me he was alot smarter with these things and don't worry well take care of it. So they repaired the leak and fixed their mistakes in the was that weren't justified and left. They didn't put the walls back together, they didn't fill in the giant holes and trenches and just left with their tails between their legs in shame of not doing the job correctly from the beginning. I asked for the bill from Steve and he told me he'd fix it to reflect. Next day I get a non detailed bill of services for $4200.00. 10 times the cost of the repair if they would have went straight to the leak as their own laborer did when he arrived. I feel I shouldn't have to pay for their mistakes and they also charged me for clean up and refilling holes and the trench which they didnt!