Nick A.
02/03/2016 12:00:00 SA
Hire Elevated Plumbing LLC at your own peril. They're unprofessional and clearly don't have the skill level needed to do quality work.
Elevated Plumbing LLC came to our business to give us an estimate on some plumbing problems we have been meaning to address (nothing I would consider difficult). They were supposed to call ahead of time, but instead arrived hours after the appointment time when the business had already closed. Prior to their arrival, I tried calling their main office to track them down. After several calls, I finally got a guy on the line and explained that the plumber hadn't arrived. He said, let me forward you to dispatch, at which point he cut me off mid sentence and immediately forwarded me somewhere. I'm not exactly sure where I was redirected, but after about 20 rings, another guy, who sounded like he had just been smoking weed for an hour and/or woken up from a nap, answered. He said said three words to me - What's going on? At that point, I decided nobody from Elevated Plumbing was going to be able to help me and hung up the phone. Several hours later, around 8pm a plumber showed up at my office (keep in mind, he was supposed to be there by 2pm). I was working late and figured I might be able to get a plumbing tip or two so I let him into the building to take a look.
He spent an hour trying to diagnose our multiple issues. For each issue, I got 3, 4, sometimes 5 reasons for what the problem could be. Each time he would give me an answer, I would say, well what about possibility XYZ. He would then change his mind and give me a different reason, and usually a different solution. I could immediately tell that he didn't know what he was doing, but I went along with it to see if I could learn something...anything. The pain eventually ended and before he left, he said he would call back with official estimates on the work that needed to be done.
Fortunately, he never bothered to call back.
I did some research on the proposed solutions suggested by the plumber, then called another company to come take a look at our issues. We went through the issues again, only this time, the new plumber found the reasons for the issues almost immediately. He was able to either show me physical problems, or explain the causes in a way that matched what I anticipated. The entire process took about 10 minutes. On one particular issue, I didn't even finish describing the symptom of our problem and he already knew the cause and solution. We cut a little hole into the wall to expose some pipe and he was dead on right.
Every solution given by the plumber from Elevated Plumbing was either flat our wrong, or unnecessary. I spoke with enough people from their company to understand that it's not just one person. It's a bad company.