Grover-Hollingsworth & Associates

Knowledgeable Geotechnical Engineers
Mar 5th, 2020

Oct 4th, 2019

The Soil Report Scam goes like this... I know and hope there are legitimate soil engineers out there, but this was not my experience with Grover-Hollingsworth and Associates or with Bob Hollingsworth. If the city wants a "soil report" for things like a grading permit, pool, etc.; you will need to call a soil engineer like this these people here. Watch out! From my experience, this company is not here to help you, like they claim. They are here to extract as much money as they can upfront and without any of their work being verified first. Their "soil report" is only given after all the money is paid upfront with 50% down to start. When we received our report, many things were unclear, as they speak in a certain "soil language". Once we figured out what was going on, we found that this company wanted to make the project much larger in scope than needed. In my opinion, this is so the home owner gets in over their head unknowingly. The project goes sideways and then you have to call in the soil engineer. They are then happy to step in at a very high additional fee. The catch here is that the city wants their signature in order to approve the plans to actually get your permit. In my opinion, this company uses that to their advantage to put you over a barrel. When I voiced my concerns about the scope of the project being larger than what the city required, I was told by Bob Hollingsworth that I was, "pissing him and his project manager off and that I needed to find a different soil engineer". The problem for most people would be that most other soil engineers do not want to take over another companies botched job. Then you have to start from the very beginning. Did I mention that this process was very very expensive? From our point of view, this company sent an inexperienced and/or not very sharp project manager. Bob, never came out to the site. This person did the test holes in the wrong places. They did not take into account "grandfathered areas" and they wanted us to "bench" in areas that did not require benching. Bob Hollingsworth is one of the most abrasive, ego-driven nut-jobs that I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with. I would not recommend this company or the people in it for ANYTHING! We are planning a lawsuit to retrieve the money we spent and additional costs they have caused us. If anyone has had a similar issue with this company and is interested in forming a class action suit, please post here and we will contact you. Note: This review was previously removed because Bob Hollingsworth came out to the site, for the first time immediately after the review was posted and say he was was going to take care of the mistakes they made at their expense. We waited for almost 2 weeks and they never updated their report. I emailed him today asking for the report and he responded that he would quote me for the changes.
Nov 29th, 2018