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Needed a backflow test done so I texted Lauren and she replied promptly with the price. After checking with a few other businesses, this was the best price so I texted back to move forward with the test. They emailed me an invoice, did the test the same day. They emailed once it was completed, I paid online and received a receipt and copy of the report. The entire process was excellent and convenient!

The owner of this business is giving himself five star reviews, competitors one star reviews, and threatening lawsuits when he receives reviews he does not like. He's also attempting to circumvent Yelp's block feature by sending me argumentative compliments because I told him I would not be a party to a conversation online with someone threatening frivolous lawsuits. He seems to be a paranoid delusional, or, at the very least, has the constitution and maturity of a seven year-old-boy given his reaction (threatening me with a lawsuit) over a 3-star review. My opinion, of course, but he may be dangerous to others.

All this because I gave him a 3-star review with several concerns about the quality of their customer service and the level of professionalism (or lack of professionalism) one must have to leave one star reviews on all of his competitors pages (search Yelp for A&V Plumbing Bell Plumbing Rubio Septic, etc. Search Google for others.

This is the second time they have responded after a big freeze.  My water pipes froze and broke.  I'm guessing this happened on Thursday.  Today I noticed water running out from under my house, across my yard and down the alley several hundred yards.  They came within an hour of my calling.  There must be hundreds of broken pipes in Austin now beginning to thaw and leak.

AJ with Greenshire Handyman came by to paint some shutters on my home that I could not reach.  His team did a fantastic job.  The communication was excellent and timely and he was prompt.  He brought the supplies he needed and the shutters look great! Thanks AJ.

Danny is fantastic!  You can give him your list and just not have to worry about it.  I started a handyman business myself and from time to time we get really busy and I know I can call Danny and he will take really great care of my clients.  I cannot say enough about the level of professionalism Danny brings to the table.  He can do almost anything and he's very creative when it comes to solving problems.  He's my go to guy and my clients all love him.

Thanks for all your help Danny.  I'll be in touch.

Ruben is our friendly neighborhood plumber. Over the years, he has helped us replace toilets, repair toilets, replace entire plumbing lines, install water heaters - you name it! Ruben charges a fair price (and sometimes hasn't charged us at all for repairs) and does excellent work.

Our water heater went out and we needed a replacement fast. Gabe was the first to reach out and offered to replace our unit the same day. His quote was very affordable compared with others that we received. His work is high quality and he made adjustments so if there is a need in the future repairs will be easier to perform. I highly recommend Gabe, and we now have a new plumber!

Josco sure is not professional on the phone.  I just gave up trying to speak with the parts man they had answering the phone.  He mumbled some sort of answer, so I asked again, he mumbled something again, so the third time I said, I did not understand your name, who is this?  And on the third try, he again mumbles a name I cannot understand.    So, I gave up, even though I *really* needed to find this part...

We asked for help with some stuff that we just couldn't fix on our own.
Came out when he said he would, was right on time.  Professional and courteous gentleman.  Helped us get our water system back on line after some serious freeze damage from URI 2021.  He knows how to fix stuff.  We would use his services again if needed.

Our master bathroom sink drain was backing up and leaking. Got multiple quotes from different plumbers, but ultimately decided on Blue Lion and we are SO happy we did. John was super prompt, professional, friendly, explained everything he did, and most importantly he did a wonderful job. Plus, the pricing is honestly super competitive for the quality! Will definitely call them for any future plumbing needs!

This company was great. Fast, honest, and resonable. I had to have my water turned off as water was coming out the over flow valve,, yesterday. Another company told me it was the high pressure valve.. 650. This company did it all for 168. I will feel confident calling them out again. Thank you for not hearing a female voice on the other end of the phone and trying to rip me off. I appreciate your professional company.

What a wonderful experience!  Another plumbing company had come out & told me the pipes had to be hydro jetted. Clayton & Derek from Chambliss came out. They ran a camera ( the other company didn't) & said it was normal buildup & not necessary at this time. They even changed the way the dishwasher drained. They only charged me the $45 visit. I will never use any other company. Both men were polite & explained everything perfectly.

My bathroom started flooding on a Saturday afternoon and I was going crazy having to mop up the mess every couple of hours, I called plumbers all around town and San Marcos Plumbing was the only place that returned my call. Their receptionist was great and managed to send someone out the same day even though they were booked solid. Brian did a great job fixing our sewer main and their rates were totally reasonable, I highly recommend them!

We lived in a new home with new A/Cs.  As it turned out our A/Cs apparently were not installed with the right level of refrigerant.  Chris Rios from Goettl A/C and Plumbing was able to help us to detect and fix the issue.  We look forward to a cooler summer this year!

Very unpleasant and stressful experience. They slow walked and took 3 months to complete drainage water blockage job, several things were not done or had to insist on getting them done. Initial invoice had 1 line item for entire $15K charge, had to insist for itemized invoice several time.

I had been advised by a professionally licensed home inspector that an open ground had been detected in the kitchen and garage and that 2 GFCI's probably needed to be replaced.

The technician arrived and took approximately one hour to diagnose the issues. He was prompt, courteous and very sincere.

Unfortunately, he is either a con artist or absolutely incompetant. His quote indicated that Wiring in garage is done unproper (sic) and is unsafe No Grounding. His recommendation was Replacing wiring or remaining wiring in garage (2) faulty GFCI. He indicated that the base price for what needed to be done was $1,547.00 and that additional work was most likely necessary at a rate of $300 per hour for 2 technicians.

I called another licensed electrician who came out to the house, confirmed the home inspector's diagnosis and made the repairs - simply loose connections in a few locations. Total charge came to $125.00. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the GFCIs or wiring in the garage.

BEWARE: It would appear that this company may have employees who are incompetant OR that try to take advantage of consumers by overcharging for services and making unneeded repairs under the guise of making the home safe again. Very very disappointing.

John was referred by my home warranty co. too, and I had a good experience.  The pipe under the floor in my master bath was broken, I was told by one company (Christian Bros) who I called before home warranty, that I'd have to have someone tunnel through under my foundation to fix it.  For a fortune.  Oh, and it's my probelm finding someone trustworthy to do that - just let them know when it was done so they could come back and fix pipe.  But this isn't their review, so anyway, moving on, John said sure I could do it that way, but that it was unnecessary. He took up a few travertine tiles, fixed the pipe, had the floor redone in a small area, all for a very reasonable price. I'm calling him again tomorrow for a new prob.

If American Home Shield assigns this plumber to you ask for another one immediately!!! All the complaints about these guys are legit.

If I could give 0 stars I would. Jason from BB Lewis came out and looked at my hot water heater. Confirmed that it was leaking and needed to be replaced. He said he would order a hot water heater, but they were on back order. He said he would call let me know when he could install it.

He completely ghosted me after that. One month later and he's still not answering my phone calls or texts. The only updates I could get were through AHS agents. After 3 weeks Jason told AHS that the hot water heater was arriving the following week. That week I called AHS for an update and Jason tells them that he never got the request for the hot water heater replacement.

One month later (today) I got a LEGIT plumber to come out and do the replacement same day.

Avoid them at all costs. These guys are collecting checks from AHS and ghosting customers. Be prepared to spend hours on the phone with AHS if they assign them to you.

After dealing with Lucy Moreno and her business I think I have a pretty good idea of what it is like to go through a terrible divorce: I trusted the wrong person who repeatedly broke their promises to me and ultimately I spent a lot of money and needed legal counsel to make an awful person leave my life while praying they don't destroy my house in the process.
I contracted with this business to remodel my kitchen. In the beginning the initial project manager (Tom Estes) warned me that I would have to get tough with Lucy and basically kiss her butt if I was going to get her to perform all the stuff she promised to do. That was insane to me, I was baffled that her own sub was undermining his boss, and I shouldn't have to get tough with anyone who I was paying to provide services they enthusiastically agreed to do.  Tom also said that the comment Lucy hears most often from her clients is You lied to me! Lucy assured me that there would be no cost overruns, they wouldn't do anything we didn't agree to do in writing, I'd be happy with their quality work, etc.  
It turns out this business wrote the book on dirty contractor tricks. Every other day I was getting messages that work was cancelled and they'd have to start up another day. My favorite excuse was that when work couldn't start on a Monday for whatever reason, she claimed that it was easier to work a full five day week then to get started mid-week and only work a couple of days in a row so progress was pushed off until the following Monday. Sure, her crew totally isn't sitting around not making any money on another smaller project she didn't want to turn down in favor of my project because working a 3 or 4 day week is so complicated.
Even though our contract was fixed-price Lucy constantly hit me up for the cost of items she either forgot to include in the price or she didn't want to pay for.  Seemed like it was always a pushy, high-pressure sell to get me to agree to something now now now, the guy is here he can do it or he'll have to come back later type of thing. I always said no, and when I'd ask her why she doesn't think the contract means she has to cover it she'd throw up her hands and say hey, I won't  fight you on this one. I didn't want to fight either, I just wanted my contractor to do what they said they would do!
When I found substandard work in progress and complained I was told to relax and stop bringing these things to her attention because they're not finished and there's nothing to worry about. When I called her attention to inferior work upon completion I was blamed for not catching the poor quality work in progress and directing the sub to fix it (which under agreement I could not even do, the homeowner cannot direct subs). Everything was blame the homeowner, including the fact that I was trying to turn an old carport into a kitchen, something that was abundantly clear to this business when they bid on the project.
The previous reviewer totally nailed it: Lucy is a bully, and with a volatile combination of arrogance and stubbornness to the point of being surreal.  While standing in my kitchen as her subs ripped up parts of my new wood floor to redo it for the second time (and only after bitter complaining on my part) she refused to acknowledge that there had been any problems on my job and that we do quality work, we get nothing but compliments. Say what?!?  I had to hear that's the best that can be done until I argued, and argued, and argued, and argued to get things fixed. The project suffered from lack of oversight and management, with Lucy and much of her subs apparently incapable of applying logic or common sense to the work.  I spent more than one evening surveying what was supposed to be my fabulous new kitchen completely in tears trying to comprehend the insane mind that could think this kind of work was acceptable.  I must admit that a couple of her subs were honest, hardworking guys who obviously cared more about quality and customer service than Lucy did.
When the project failed to pass the electrical inspection Lucy doubled-down and refused to do any more work until I gave her the final payment, which clearly is not due by contract until all the work is done and the liabilities are cleared.  Lucy literally stated she did not care about the terms of our contract, she just wanted to be paid (greatest email ever, got it in writing, thank you!). Never mind the fact that it didn't pass the city inspection or that a sub (who had been fired early in the project before demo even started) had attempted to file an invalid lien on my property. She makes up the rules as she goes along and I don't think she ever even actually read the contract that we signed.  Her work ethic reminds me of a drug-addict: lie and do whatever it takes to get the money and always deny any problems exist.