Customers furious over unfinished fences

Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary Published Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:01PM MDT Last Updated Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:42PM MDT

Several homeowners in Panorama are frustrated that they didnt check out their fencing contractor a little more closely before handing over their hard earned cash.

Planks of wood have been sitting in the backyards of Farhad Werdeg and Atif Abbasi since last September.

"I think they're useless now, sitting out there all winter, but they're still there," said Abbasi.

In both cases, Steve Nielsen, the contractor and owner of Heart of the West Construction, dropped the lumber off and promised to return the next day to build their fences.

He never did and the homeowners have tried several times to contact him.

We tried to contact him maybe 100 times, he never replied, said Werdeg.

It's the same story down at Eva Strazhevskis house.

All three neighbors thought they were safe hiring Nielsen to do their jobs.

"He was doing all the fences on our street and the street in front of us. All our neighbors were using him, neighbors on the back, the left, the right, said Werdeg.

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