Seriously, look no further for the best plumber in town - Paul knows all there is to know in his field and then some and he always charges a fair price. I previously used Abacus Plumbing for a leaky pipe and it cost me $2500. Paul has done a lot more work for me than the plumber did on that occasion for significantly less money.
We noticed that we could smell gas whenever we opened our back door and went on the back deck. I called Centerpoint and they came out that evening, determined that there was a gas leak somewhere under our pier and beam house, said that it was our problem as the homeowner, and removed our gas meter. I did not know where to start to get the leak fixed and was worried we were going to be taking cold showers for a week. All the Centerpoint guy could tell me was to find a master plumber. That was actually helpful advice since I had no idea what type of professional would do such a repair. In any case, based on positive yelp reviews I decided to call The Plumbing Guy in the morning. He was able to fit me in at the end of the day. He and Ben came out and ran a pressure test to find the location of the leak and located it there under our back deck. Paul warned me that it wasn't an easy fix and also that if any gas-fed appliances were not up to code we would have to replace them in order to get a permit and pass inspection. He also warned that he might be required to replace a lot more than just the leaky pipe to pass inspection since all of our piping is super-old (our house was built in 1940). The next morning he went to go talk to the West U inspector with whom he is on a first name basis and got the permit to begin work, he and Ben spent most of the day to complete all the necessary work and then he got the inspector back out later that day to pass the work, which he did. The inspector called Centerpoint there on the spot and told them to come out and give us our meter back and amazingly Centerpoint came by the end of the day and we were back in business. The whole thing was amazingly and surprisingly painless. I just sat back while Paul took care of everything.
Just a couple of weeks later, my in-laws decided to purchase an expensive reverse osmosis water filtration system for our kitchen sink. It took my father-in-law two days to install it. Thanks Dad. Our kitchen flooded. There was water gushing out from under the sink. This was on Good Friday. My husband turned the water off and Paul and Ben came out within a few hours of my call. He did a quick fix of the saddle valve that came with the filtration system but warned that saddle valves are not really in use anymore and he couldn't guarantee the repair as he normally would. Indeed we noticed the next day that there still water slowly dripping from somewhere under the sink. Paul and Ben came back out and determined that the saddle valve had actually held but that our faucet was leaking now and needed to be replaced. So we went to Home Depot and bought the faucet and Paul and Ben came back to install it. They also fixed our toilet upstairs and the faucet upstairs. Lol, our plumbing was a mess! For as long as we've lived in our house (3 years) you have to hold the handle down to flush the upstairs toilet for like 3-4 seconds in order for it to flush. They fixed that, no problem. And the faucet upstairs was actually a repair of my husband's attempt to install a new faucet from Home Depot himself last year. The handles to turn the water on and off were all loose and wobbly and he never installed the drain stopper that came with the fixture set. Again, they took care of that, no problem.
So you see, I have had a lot of experience at this point with Paul's work and as I stated in the beginning, Paul really knows his sh*t!