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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!

Bill and Diane Pair with Pair Plumbing & Septic have provided me with excellent customer service and work.  My farm is located about 20 miles from Cameron and recently all of my pipes froze and and broke due to the freeze.  The guys they sent to asses the damage were very professional and quickly identified the problem. The Pair's  were responsive and sympathetic to my needs and repaired my pipes.  This was not the first time we have had them service the farm, really good people.  Diane is a really sweet lady, more of a peach than a Pair!

Been using The Plumber for 4 years in my home.  They've done big jobs (2 major bathroom remodels) and small jobs like unclogging a drain.  He always comes when he says he will and can usually get me on the schedule within 24 hours depending on my urgency.  Straightforward and honest which is hard to come by these days!!

I moved to the area recently and was happy to find Greenshire Handyman. AJ was very responsive, arrived on time and installed my front storm door quickly.  I'm very happy with the results and will definitely reach out to for assistance with other home projects I need completed!

Danny is a rad human with some serious handiman superpowers!. I kept calling him Sherlock Holmes, because I hired him to figure out what was wrong with my water system.

It was one mystery after another, and he solved them gracefully. Excellent problem solving and execution of solutions!

Danny is so committed to being a badass ninja handiman and getting the job done right, that he seriously sucked the water out of a sink tube and spit it out, to pull out the debris blockage:

I mean - what??? Who does that? That is some serious commitment to a job well done! And some serious old school wisdom and know-how - to trouble shoot such a quirky and mysterious circumstance.

Add to that the fact that Danny is pretty much a human leprochaun / magical elf, and his daughters are like walking faeries , you've got yourself a rad and helpful human who can help you with nearly everything!

Thanks Danny!

Would definitely recommend the services of Ruben. He answered all my questions over the phone first and even asked if I could take a picture of the issue, then quoted me over the phone. I knew what to expect and what I was going to pay before he even came out. He worked with my work schedule and met me at my apartment exactly when he said he would, even called/text to confirm.

Very nice gentleman. He retrieved my grandmother's necklace that was gifted to me 19 years ago. I don't know what I would do without him. He gave me some plumbing tips and even cleaned up the area he worked on.

Looking for a family plumbing business? Call Ruben!!

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!

Just bought a part at Josco yesterday. The employee Matthew was knowledgeable, took me straight to the part and demonstrated how it should be installed. He said it should take about 10 min. to install. I had thought he cursed me by saying that but it really was a 10 min. Job! Looks like a strict return policy according to the receipt that is why I don't rate it a full five stars. Regular stocked merchandise has to be new and unopened, returned in 10 days for a refund minus a 15% restocking fee.

Excellent service and detailed work.  Shannon was ready and willing to help us with our clogged system on a Saturday morning, which we appreciated very much!

Very experienced and attentive to all details at our brand new house.

Highly recommended for all plumbing services!  Six Stars

Twas a dark and -- oh, who am I kidding? It was a humid Texas summer evening when I realized that there was a puddle forming in my garage outside of the little door that houses my water heater. Since I know nothing about home maintenance, it took some asking anyone who would listen what that even was, and finally at ten in the evening, the issue was identified and I began browsing my neighborhood Facebook group for recommendations.

The most recommended local option was Martin with Blue Lion plumbing... so in my late night panic, I sent off a Facebook message. lol and behold, not longer afterwards I already had a response, and Martin came out the very next day to take a look, identified that both my water heaters had failed, and gave us a quote. Nervously, because I know nothing about pricing for this kind of thing, I ran it by friends and confirmed, for replacing the equipment on fairly short notice, the price was incredibly fair. We ultimately decided to downsize our water heaters, so we let them know and they updated our quote in no more than a couple hours, and scheduled us for Saturday -- YES. They can come out on Saturday, and Martin let me know it was specifically to be considerate of people who work M-F and can't easily take time off.

They came right on time Saturday, were so polite and considerate coming into our home, and overall had pleasant energy as they worked without being boisterous. They were done by lunchtime, tested everything, Martin answered all my questions in layman's terms because I'm not at all handy, and recommended someone to take a look at the water softener system if I ever needed it.

Overall, they made a positive experience out of something that could have been disastrous.

No-call, no-show the night before Thanksgiving.
My appointment window was 3-5pm. I had some turkey prepping to do, and I needed my faucet to work.
I called the office at 4:45 because I sought an update on my plumber's ETA. The recorded message said that their offices closed at 4:30 and won't re-open until Monday (or was it Tuesday?) Now, I don't hold a nice long holiday weekend against anyone. But who am I supposed to call when my appointment window goes beyond your office hours? Your assigned plumber who had my work order could have at least called me. I do hope he is safe out there.

I gave two stars because your team may be truly wonderful, but I will never know.

Very disappointed in Chambliss.  I have used them on a few different jobs and have found that they are 1 very expensive and 2 do shotty work.  Most recently I had a big leak in a yard faucet I had them install in my front yard.  The work cost a little over $500 and looked very make shift.  They had two steel stakes (different sizes) with very sharp edges sticking out of the ground and then taped the pipe to the stake.  The tops of the stakes were very sharp and definitely a safety hazard and the pipe was not secure at all.  Again, this looked very make shift and not a professional job.  Fast forward 1 year and there is water leaking all over the yard from this faucet.  I contacted Chambliss to see if this would be covered under any type of warranty and it is not.  They told me they would send someone over to take a look at the job and no one ever showed up.  I just had another plumber go out and repair the job at a cost of $232 and plumber showed me that this was due to shotty work.  very disappointed here

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!

On June 21, I made an appointment for a visit on June 30, between 11 and 1. At 1:30, when noone had arrived or contacted me, I called, and was told that the technician was delayed at another visit, but would be here soon.
At 3:30, I received a text from a service manager, Aaron, saying that a tech was available. I called, and was told that the appointment he saw was for 8-5, which I would not have made for June 30, as I needed to leave home by 4:30. However, I was given the impression the technician would be there within minutes.
At 4:10, however, the technician still had not arrived. I texted Aaron to cancel the visit. The impression Goettl made on me is that they cannot be relied upon.

If I could give them negative stars, I would. Everything, and I mean everything, that they did in installing my newly renovated bathroom broke or was not done properly. They did not even anchor the towel bars. The brand new bathtub has flooded twice and I now have to pay to have it removed and reinstalled. The contractor brought them in and it was a horrible experience.

Way overpriced! Beware and look elsewhere. Paid $900 for coolant alone. Same service cost my neighbor half the price with another company.

On his website he states he started his own business because he got tired of seeing people overcharged.  That is funny considering he charged us $100 for a hot water heater drip pan and would not use the identical one that I had just bought at Home Depot for $22.  He also charged us $150 for an expansion tank that was only $68 for the most expensive one at Home Depot.  $90 worth if parts that he charged us $250 for.  As soon as he left I saw the unit was leaking,  I called him back not even 30 minutes after he left.  He said he was in S. Austin and would be back around 5.  He never showed and I could not get an on his cell until after 8pm.   He then said to just turn off the water to the hot water heater and he will be back the next day.  We will see, that day is today.  Not happy and not impressed.

They did a good job fixing my water heater. They returned calls in a timely manner, arrived on time and fixed the issue quickly. Jody was friendly, knowledgeable, and took the time to answer all my questions.

avoid l&m at all costs and tell everyone to do the same. i can say, without a doubt, that was one of the most horrible experiences of my life. never in my life have i worked with a team so completely unprofessional, no consideration for the customer, constantly shifting blame to the customer and the worst work ethic (or lack thereof rather) ever.

* lucy lies #1 and 2: work would take 2-3 weeks and that her workers would be sensitive to the fact that someone was living in the house while work was being done.
* lucy lie #3: saying i don't get the final check until you are satisfied twice to which we nodded and replied, okay.
* lucy lie #4: she listed the projects spread out over 3 phases showing work to be completed in 2 weeks (we BOTH have this written out).
* painting needed to be completed BEFORE carpet was put in, so the carpet installation had to be pushed back due to painting taking longer than expected.
* the day of carpet installation was a state holiday, so we were home. the painters arrived at 9am to finish up painting before carpet installer arrived at 10am. we pointed out all area of concern re: paint. they agreed that work needed to be done and seem to be rushing to complete it before carpet installation.
* although carpet was installed, we continued to see areas of concern re: the painting.
* on a DAILY basis, we marked areas of concern with blue painter's tape per lucy's instruction. this continued until the beginning of week 3 at which time lucy asked us to stop placing tape on the walls because it was taking off the paint. i then texted her photos of the areas of concern instead. that day, our blue painter's tape disappeared.
* areas of concern continued to be ignored, so i chose to work from home to PHYSICALLY point out areas of concern.
* lucy lie #5: she said the painters said they had been working at our house every day. i told her i worked from home 2 days and they in fact had not worked at all one of those days. her reply was, oh.
* horrible work ethic example: i'd estimate around 40-50% of the painter's time was spent on the phone; working 2.5 hours was considered a full day; the painter sent his WIFE and DAUGHTER to finish other painting tasks.
* i have photos of an exacto blade on the kitchen table; fast food cups left around the house; nails all over the floor of the garage (which we have to enter multiple times daily since it's been serving as our storage area and we've had to live out of boxes this entire time while they work); photos showing work areas ignore time and time again; the instance in which they placed 50-60 pounds of wooden and metal bunk bed parts against 2 pieces of art worth over $200,00 (this was another horrible story).
* in our countless walk-throughs, lucy never took notes. her replies would be verbal affirmations of uh huh. okay. yes. right. etc.
* lucy lie #6: when it came to painting the doors, the painters only painted the outside panel of the door; not the inside. i confirmed with lucy that they were in fact supposed to paint both sides of every door. she confirmed yes stating she'd let them know. when i asked the painter if lucy had told them they were to paint both sides of the doors, they replied no. we were just supposed to paint the outside. for confirmation i asked again. the painter replied that lucy had not told him to paint both sides. i told him what lucy had told us, to which he replied okay.
* after the first day of painting, i witnessed the painter's son place the shower curtain rod back on the wall that had been primed that day. i assumed there was some painting-professional reason for this and i didn't not question it as it's not my area of expertise. the next day, i saw that the curtain rod remained on the wall and they painted around it. i then removed the rod so that they could paint the entire area.
* lucy lie #7: she said they would remove switch plates and tape over hinges before painting. switch plates were not removed, but instead, being painted on around the edges. i then decided to remove the switch plates.
* lucy lie #8: she said window treatment hardware would be removed from the walls before painting began. i saw they were not removed before painting began, so we removed them from the entire house
* at one point they filled our trash and recycle bins completely leaving no room for us to dispose of our trash and recyclables.

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