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[quote=Anonymous]I've reached out to multiple neighborhood WhatsApp groups and list serves, and I keep getting the same few people who recommend themselves or the same person, and others have told me to steer clear of that person (their new stuff looks great but in a few years things fall apart, and the ones recommending him have new installations).

We are in Silver Spring and need recommendations for someone to do the following:
- Rip up the cement pad in our backyard (it's cracking and tilted toward the house, so water pools right against the back door, which is only 1 step down)
- Install a new cement pad, slightly bigger (to match the depth of the existing pad behind our garage)
- Install a pergola to our specifications, including: 
      - Adding awning that can be opened or closed above the pergola (to keep the sun out when it's overhead, but we want it open to the sky otherwise)
      - A ceiling fan installed in the middle of the pergola
      - Adding lighting (although we might end up stringing up lights; this is not our #1 concern)

For those who have done this, how have you kept the pergola's wood in good shape? Our #1 goal is something that lasts, not something cheap.

Should we be looking at two different contractors for this? One for the cement, one for the pergola? We're not sure how to go about doing this, and no one in my neighborhood seems to be responding to my e-mail/WhatsApp requests.

TIA![/quote]

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