Best Businesses in Columbus, OH

Joe and George are great!  We had a days worth of grunt work that no other plumber wanted to do.  Joe fit us in and spent a day taking care of our chores.  I will be forever grateful for my dishwasher, laundry tub, filter and softener.  Would highly recommend them to anyone!

I have been using Drain Openers for more than 10 years now. They are wonderful!!! They are always prompt getting to the job, very courteous and their pricing is always fair. The quality of work is superb and I have recommended them to many others over years with no complaints from anyone. Dave and Tina Swisher are the owners and the two men that usually do work for me are Jeremiah and Mike. You can't go wrong with this company!!

Tony was fantastic!  Same day service on my sump pump, and very reasonable.  The communication via e-mail, phone and text was the best I have ever experienced with any contractor.  Top notch.

This review is almost a year late.  Last spring, I had them replace the drain pipes from my downspouts to the curb, including the ones at the back of the house.  They did a great job at a good price.

Highly recommend- I contacted them for a city issue that needed immediate attention. Not only did they come out quickly but fixed at a reasonable rate and did a great job! Would definitely be using them again for any needs. Thank you!

We have used the same plumber in Reynoldsburg for 30 years.  This year, I decided to try a new company despite not having problems with my regular plumbers.  A clerical mix-up on the correct arrival time caused a minor delay but no tragedy.

The plumber arrived in very good spirits & with very good customer relations began to diagnose the plumbing issue.  After promptly solving one issue he began work on a secondary issue to replace a bathroom sink elbow pipe.  Problem was, he had no correct parts on his truck.  Issue #2 will be skipped.  We were disappointed the proper part weren't loaded on a plumbers truck but again, no tragedy.

Rates are competitive for the industry.  The plumber to customer attentiveness, and verbal skills were well above average.  No creepy weird guy shows up with plumbers butt, just a professional well spoken business man.  Kudos guys!

Lisa is helpful, knowledgeable and friendly. We needed two lavatory faucets and were only interested in single-handle, small, retro ones, which really limited our choices. Lisa was all over the showroom getting samples. She also took them off the display racks and inserted them into a bathroom sink so we could see them in context. We really appreciated her help.

First thanks to jack l woods for recommending them. I needed a new sump pump to street drain line. The quote was quick and totally  reasonable. It did take a couple weeks to complete due to a extra thick carport pad. Thanks to big b concrete for  taking care of that. I would take pictures of the work but that is pointless. They cut the sod, rolled it out of the way then did their thing.  They showed up a little before 8 and I had new piping by lunch. With as good as these guys were if they hadn't been chewing through maple tree roots they probably would have been done by 10. The best compliment  I can really pay is to say that they will be the first I recommend to anyone for this sort of work. I don't normally give 5 but there really is no room for improvement with these guys.

My wife and I moved to Plain City in June and needed a plumber for a water heater leak. We like to use local companies when possible and found Foust. We called and got an appointment setup the following business day and our issue was a non-emergency. David was the technician that came to the house the following day and he did a great job throughout the day and went from leak inspection to installed & fully functional water heater the same day. I recommend Foust - they did a great job for us.

The Service People are a joke to me. I had them out on March 28 and April12, 2016.  The water heater they installed on March 28th never gave me hot water, lukewarm at best.  So a new electronic system to the water heater was ordered to replace the one that came with the tank.  It never warmed up either until I went to my basement and turned on the hot water valve and it heated up in 15 minutes.  I have had hot water until recently, July 18, 2016 and I called to get a serviceperson to come and check out the water heater.  (1) Can never get a person on the phone unless you rotate through the numbers.  (2) Since this is a family owned company, the person who answers the phone is not professional at all.  The individual always seems to be way to busy to accommodate the customers.  I mean it seems like I was bothering the individual and they wanted me off the phone as fast as they could get me off of it. No serviceperson was available to service me when I called on July 22, 2016.  I told the individual I would try to lite the pilot myself, since I had instruction to do so and we hung up.  (3) I did get the pilot lit, but still no hot water today, July 23, 2016 and this company is closed today.  Please, I do not recommend this company.  There customer service is horrible and the hot water heater sucks, and that is putting it mildly.  I know what the other reviews have stated, but this is my experience and I hope that this situation can be alleviated after they read my review.  I hope this helps others as well.  I will be going to their establishment when they open on Monday.

The message you included was: Although I was the last call of the day, Steven worked as if his day just started. He was friendly, professional, and proficient.

If you are in need of a plumber, please give them a call!  They are highly professional, do not push to fix anything that doesn't need to be fixed and have extremely reasonable prices.  They were also able to get us on the schedule for 2 days after we called.  Everyone else was 2+ weeks.

We have used Mr Rooter for almost 10 years. I write this review with much conflict because I think the technicians that work at Mr Rooter are amazing and I have no complaint with them. My complaint is with the salesmen and the owner, who refused to hear me out when I asked to speak with her.

Four years ago my husband and I bought our house only to find out that the main sewer line was failing. We paid $16,000 to Mr Rooter. They came, dug up our yard (which took almost 2 years to get put back together and properly graded) and replaced the entire main sewer line. They wooed us with their lifetime warranty. That job took our entire life savings but it had to be done. In our minds, our plumbing woes were over.

Fast forward to now - we come home to find 3 inches of black sewage in our finished basement. Once again, we call Mr Rooter. They discover that the pipe protruding out of our house has bottomed out....we were shocked...how was their old pipe still remaining when they had already come out 4 years ago and replaced it? Because they had left several feet of old pipe....that's how. We asked for it to be covered under the lifetime warranty. They said no. We ended up paying another $11,000 to Mr Rooter - money we do not have in this difficult pandemic. We used their financing which is at 24.99% interest.

We will never give Mr Rooter our business again. As plumbing experts it was their duty to show integrity and do the job right the first time. We are not plumbing experts, we relied on their expertise. If they knew they were digging up a customers entire yard and that clay and cast iron pipes have a limited life - why would they not replace all of it? And as plumbing experts shouldn't they have known that disturbing the ground would cause the remaining clay pipe to fail? I think they did know that 4 years ago. I think they banked on this outcome. That is how you become a $30 million company.

My advice - don't get romanced by the useless lifetime warranty. Don't panic and don't use your lifetime savings on these crooks.

I am 74 with special child 48, my experience with Chris Plumbing was Unprofessional and Chris DID NOT do any work, yet led me to believe he fixed my problem. 11-7-16 I called Chris Plumbing about water ring around toilet, Chris said he had a job shortly but could stop and give me a free estimate.  Came in flip flops, and shorts, no paperwork,I took him to son's upstairs bathroom, Chris jumped up and down said I needed new floor wood rot. I told him I did not need a new floor as I had a new wood floor, toilet, sink, painted in less that two years ago, then Chris said he would take the toilet off and check everything out.

Came downstairs in 5 minutes said plumbing fine everything ok but had time to fix it. Went to truck came back with no tool box went up stairs.

Came down in 10 minutes said it would be $100.00, asked if I could take the discount listed on his ad, Chris said he already did that it was $100.00.

My son's caregiver was up stairs the first five minutes, came down went to the basement to get laundry, when Jim came up I was writing the check for Chris thinking Chris did work. I walked to the truck with Chris as he did not give me an invoice and I thought he would write me one, Chris reached into his truck and gave me his business card, no last name, no address, picture of a women and two kids, could hardly read phone #. Chris said he had been listed with Westland Messenger for years and if he get one complaint they will drop his ad, no need to worry gave 30 day warranty which I noted on the check.

Two days later On 7-9-16 I went up stairs to see if my son made his bed. There was water all over the bathroom floor, being by myself I put towels all over the floor. Went down stairs and looked up Chris Plumbing on my iPad. There was a review on Chris Plumbing back in 2011 almost the same as what happened to me, they said Chris said he would come three times to check out his problem and never came, with that I called another Plummer.

They  came right away, Had to snake line, said bad blockage way down, they did fix my problem. If Chris did anything Chris would have found the blockage as well. They charged $114.00 but did do the work. I called Chris and told him I wanted my money back, he said he did not trust me, I hung up.

Sent Chris Plumbing in Galloway a CERTIFIED LETTER asking for my $100.00 they would not sign for the letter. I reported this to Westland Messinger and the BBB.

I feel Chris Scamed me when I told him I did not need a new floor, to take advantage of a 74 year old lady when all he would have had to do was snake the line blockage.

I tell my story so others may not be taken in 15 minutes, I feel like a fool, my son's caregiver told me he could not have done anything in such a short time, said people like this should be stopped. That is why I wrote this, it is the principle of thing, shame on you Chris.

DO NOT PUNISH YOURSELF BY HIRING K&D PLUMBERS.  There are far too many honest, reliable, competent, and hard working plumbers for you to waste your money on this crew.

If you want to feel like a second class citizen, use K&D Plumbing.  David and team were hired to do several plumbing jobs on my house addition.  David's communication with me and my general contractor was horrible and virtually nonexistent.  David would regularly not return calls / messages and failed to follow through on several critical items (i.e., permit coordination) that caused significant delays in the project.  His failure to talk to the paying customer and follow through on promises also caused delays throughout the project.  To cap it all off, David sent one of his plumbers to change out a natural gas feed line to a fireplace.  His plumber had installed it previously, but his work FAILED the City's inspection.  David regularly pulled his plumber from scheduled dates to fix this poor work.  Upon completion of this last bit of work, David overcharged me by $95 for an hour of labor that his plumber did not work.  He agreed to me not having to pay for the 1 hour his employee did not work on my job, but he never sent an adjusted invoice.  In the flurry of paying several trades for their services on my home, I mistakenly overpaid David the $95 for the 1 hour not really worked.  I contacted him quickly to notify him of the error, but he had already cashed my check.  I requested a refund for that overage.  He told me that he 'deserved' the extra money and refused to refund it.  Eventually, he agreed to send me a $95 check.  Well, that date came and went without me receiving a check or hearing a word from David.  After a couple weeks, I again attempted to contact David to inquire about the money and refund.  He told me that he has no intention of returning my money and that it was my problem since I wrote the check.  There is a term for someone who makes promises and does not keep his word.  There is also a term for someone who takes things, in this case nearly $100, that is not rightfully theirs.

I give them a poor rating related to communication, professionalism, and my overall experience with them, but let me explain. T & R was assigned to me by my home warranty company for a plumbing issue I was having. I called my home warranty company on a sunday evening and placed a claim with the automated system. I had done this before with a different household issue and everything went smoothly, so I had no reason to think twice about doing it again. T & R never contacted me as a contractor had in the past. I waited until later in the day on the following day, Monday, and then called my home warranty company to report that I had never been contacted. At this time, my warranty company got in contact with T & R and I was given an appointment window for the following day, Tuesday from 9am-1pm. After 1pm when T & R never showed up, I called my home warranty company again. They contacted T & R who stated that a man had called them and reported that our issue had been resolved and that we no longer needed a plumber. I am the homeowner, a female, and while I do have a roommate, she is also female and doesn't deal with homeowner issues and we definitely still needed a plumber. I'm not sure if they had another invoice with a similar address and they canceled ours by mistake or what the issue was, but I did not cancel my appointment and no random man did so on behalf. I tried calling the company (which as far as I can tell is just this guy, Rocky, with a cell phone) and got no answer. I called my warranty company back and was told since it was directly before the holidays, there were a limited number of companies that could provide service on such short notice and that due to the previous conflict, T & R refused to make another appointment to provide service to me. After a whole extra debacle with my warranty company, eventually I had another appointment with T&R for Wednesday between 1pm and 5pm. Again, T & R did not show and did not call to let me know he wasn't coming. I called him and he told me he was running behind and he said he could come but that it would be closer to 8pm. At 8pm he still didn't show up. He stated he was running behind and that he would be able to see us the next day, Christmas Eve, at 9 or 10am. At 10am he did not arrive, and I called him again several times, and he replied with a text message Sorry, busy, call back later. About 10:20 he did return my call and stated that he was not able to answer the phone because he was on the line with my warranty company. He said he would be arriving in about a half hour or 45 mins. An hour later he did arrive. He stood looking at a pipe outside and gave me several reasons why he couldn't fix our problem before even attempting to fix it, stated that it was an issue my HOA would have to resolve because all of the lines to the sewage are all connected, that his lines would not be long enough, etc... I am not a plumber, obviously, but no one else had report an issue in the HOA or had plumbers at their home, so NO, this was not an issue for the HOA. Eventually he did run a line down the pipe outside and pulled out what was creating the problem. The night before he came out we noticed water damage on the ceiling in our living room, directly below the bathroom. I showed it to him, sure that since I had not had plumbing issues up until this point, that the house being backed up had created this problem and he guaranteed me that this was a separate issue and that I would have to call my warranty company back and create a separate claim. Again, I am not a plumber, but it seems like 2 separate plumbing issues at the same time is highly unlikely. So to recap, I spent 5 days unable to shower, use as sink, do dishes, or wash laundry waiting on this guy to keep his appointment or at least communicate that he wasn't able to do so. It was not like it was just a clogged toilet, I was having to go to my gym to shower to get ready for work. If I had a regular 9-5 job I would have missed 3 days of work waiting for this company to do what they said they were going to do. To top everything off, when I went to pay, conveniently, his credit card machine was broken until the 7th of January, so I had to write a check, which was extremely inconvenient, as most people use credit cards for just such emergencies when they experience an unexpected problem like this. I called that day and placed another claim with my warranty company to have the leak that is damaging the ceiling looked at and I even gave the benefit of the doubt, since it was a holiday and a weekend and I had some traveling to do myself, and today is wednesday, almost a week later, and I contacted my warranty company to see why a contractor had never contacted me and what do you know, it was supposed to have been T & R. I demanded a different company be assigned to me. I would not do business with this company (and I am being generous with that term) again.

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