ABC Handyman

Garth converted our fire pit to gas, and we are pleased with his efforts. He was quick to come out and scope the project, and he followed through as agreed upon. He was professional and courteous throughout the project. I would use his services again in the future.

Garth was great to work with. He responded quickly and knew exactly what to do to solve my gutter issues. The price seemed very fair and he got the job done fast. I plan to hire him again for some other work I need done on my properties. He's going to help us with some dryer venting issues. He has lots of experience and shares what he knows without doing hard selling.  I appreciated his knowledge and time he spent explaining things even though it was late in the evening, he was flexible with my schedule.

Garth helped me renovate a rental house I had owned for the past 15 years to prep it for sale.  When you're upgrading a house built in the 1920s there will be a variety of issues you simply couldn't anticipate.  Garth worked with me more like a partner than a vendor to overcome these challenges and get the rather large project done on time and on budget.  He's particularly skilled at creative and cost effective ways to improve properties and does a great job keeping subs and labor focused and on the job.  Garth is a no BS, get it done, pro.

I had a new Shower, and fan installed in my Bathroom. Garth and his crew did a GREAT job !  They were all very friendly and did very good quality work, felt they went above and beyond, to make sure the job was done right !  Garth would check with me daily to see how things went today  which i thought was awesome !  ABC did everything he said he would and MORE!   Would highly recommend garth and ABC Handyman!!!   I will definitely, Be hiring him again !!

I learned a hard lesson on this one, and I will never hire help without verifying credentials on Washington States Labor and Industry again. This man is not only a fraud, his work is amateurish and sloppy. The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries issues general contractor and specialty licenses. It is against Washington state law to perform handyman work without registering with the state's department of labor office. He will look you in eye and smile and tell you he is licensed, while he has outstanding fines against him because he does not have a license. (He charges prices as if he is licensed as well.)

I hired him for two seemingly simple jobs: replacing an outdoor faucet and replacing the master bath faucet and shower head. Both jobs lasted a few weeks and then disaster. The front faucet starting dripping and then pouring out water. The hot water connection in the master bath was not connected properly, came loose, and now I have wall damage. Not only that, he got the hot and cold water mixed up and missed a piece on the faucet so it was not only loose, it leaves a gap for water to get through the wall. Because the work was on warrantee and the hot water pouring down my wall was an emergency, I called him to come out ASAP and take care of it. We made an appointment for 2:30 and he blew me off. I literally had to call all day before he came at 7:00 to fix it. It was at that point I finally did some digging and discovered he is a fraud. Now I have to get another handyman to come out and recheck his work in the bathroom, fix the front faucet outside again, and help me assess for damages. Don't call Garth or any handyman unless you've verified they are legit. Don't buy the nice smile and smooth talk; you'll be sorry.

Garth was fabulous!  Wonderful person and very skilled.  I will definitely use him again!!

Called me on a Sunday to help me trouble shoot an old wood lathe I'm trying to refurb. Nice guy.

Garth responded to a late night yelp request for an air conditioner install quote.  We just moved to Vancouver WA and arrived in the middle of a heat wave.  Our new place has had no AC and we have been very uncomfortable (and with two small children that is especially hard)! It also turned out that we have smallish windows and it was a struggle to see how we could make it work. He walked me through the process, talked to my husband at the store, custom installed the AC that night and it looks amazing.  More importantly, it FEELS amazing.  The house is cool... we can sleep and enjoy our new home.  He is so helpful and so nice!  The price was exactly as discussed and very very reasonable.   I cannot stress enough how much I endorse this business and this person.  What a blessing.

I appreciated him coming out and I would use him again  it's just amazing how expensive everything is I've been a renter a few times but for the most part I've always owned my home like I own this one there's something to be said about renting a house something goes wrong you don't have to pay to have it fixed!

I've been waiting for over a month to write this review. I wanted to see if my initial reaction remained and also how the work quality held up. I am now confident to proceed.
Work done: removal of old and installation of new tub fixtures (drain plug, faucet, lever and shower head).
The two positives about this experience were that, 1. He was available to come within our time frame as we had out of town guests arriving and, 2. He was friendly and enthusiastic (and very chatty)
Other than that, we were quite disappointed. The fixtures I picked out at H.D., he said, were not compatible even though they were the same brand as the original. He told me he would make a call to the company to see what their recommended alternative was. In the meantime, he would need my husband to go to Home Depot to get plumber's putty and silicone caulk, which we were kind of surprised he didn't have with him. Garth made 2 trips to get the parts needed and was gone, we both thought, a considerable amount of time for what he was purchasing which ended up being, what I would consider, apartment quality tub fixtures. After he was done and we were $418 poorer, we looked in the bathroom and noticed that he had forgotten to secure the ring around the shower head to the wall so my husband had to do that. I also noticed that the silicone caulking around the tub spout had been so messily applied that it was smeared several inches outside the place where the spout meets the fiberglass shower wall. 3 weeks later, after our guests had gone and I went in to clean, I could see that the silicone around the spout was coming away and the spout was now loose. We have another handyman coming to fix this next week. I really should have waited until he was available. He's already done some work for us since Garth, is much cheaper and is doing a fantastic job. He also doesn't spend much time talking to us.......nothing wrong with that, per se, but, after all, the hourly rate clock is ticking. Lastly, I never received the invoice that he said he would send via email so I don't have a breakdown of the parts and labor charges. Upon further inspection and as I said earlier, I was shocked and disappointed at the low quality of the fixtures. He didn't check with us before installation and once they were in, I just wanted to pay him and stop the clock because he had been there for hours!! This part is totally my fault. I should have paid more attention to what he was doing but it seemed that every time I checked in on him, he started talking to me and I really wanted to leave him alone to get it done asap. Thankfully, it is just a spare bathroom that will be probably be remodeled someday. In hindsight, I wish I would have had more patience and saved the $$ and just left the ugly gold fixtures in there. You live and learn.
Glad some of you had a great experience. Wish we had.

Scope of this project was to move / flip half bath and laundry, remove corner storage and change door from standard to a pocket door. This included associated plumbing, electric and wall texturing.

Unable to use the word quality and ABC Handyman together. After gave him the stop work order, we were able to see the total waste of labor and materials. The pocket door is actually the only thing that appears okay. We are still (daily) finding shortcuts, errors, miscues.

Bottom line, he couldn't arrive before 11am 90% of the time. If he was on site, it was limited. He would bring unqualified people to our house and leave. Two guys, same day brought their dogs into our garage. Totally unacceptable.

We are in process of having to take all the 'new' dryer venting (abs, not metal) out and replace it to code. He overspent by over 25%; charged tools to our bills after we had approved only materials of two items. We wasted almost a month and over 5K on a project that he said he could do in 5 days, maybe 10.

We laugh only because he 'prides himself' that he has never had some call back for warranty work. Hint, no one wants him back!  The texture was to match the remainder of the house. We have small orange peel. What he did was xl 5 year old throwing crap on the way. And the w/d as well as all fixtures had 'added' texture too.

The guy does sloppy work, nothing to code and nothing is completed in a timely manner. I can't say how much regret we have allowing this man into our home. Zero quality, zero value.

Garth is awesome! He came over late at night when we realized our toilet wouldn't flush at all & I had to be at work at 4am. I definitely recommend this guy!

I learned my lesson!  The most horrendous workmanship I've ever seen!  Cuts corners whenever he can.  He used 2x2s to cover 1 gaps all around a new countertop and called it a spice rack.  And for a discounted rate of $80.00 an hour plus materials!  He has no respect for property and takes no pride in his work. Looks to be all women who've had a problem with him in the reviews.  I will be suing, my first time ever, and I've worked with many professional contractors and handymen through my career of real estate and owning many properties.

Garth is fair, honest and knowledgeable. He will access the problem and will suggest options for replacement or repair. We have utilized his services multiple times and will continue to do so.

Garth has done work for us many times and always does a great job.  In our experiences he has made it easy to get help when we need it and works around our schedule.  We recently needed help with a storage unit and he was able to drop what he was doing and get to us in 40 minutes.  Thanks Garth!

Knowledgeable and reasonable cost for many services.  I recommend getting estimates to verify for yourself

This was the worst experiences I've had with my whole remodel efforts. I had asked for repair work to my gutters, and was told someone could come out that same day. FIVE days, three emails, seven text messages, and four phone calls later, NOBODY has shown up. I am beyond frustrated with this company. My time is very important, and I'm on a strict and tight timeline to have his work done, and all this company has done is wasted my time. Very frustrating. I'd hope to hire due to the great reviews I read on Yelp, but am sadly extremely disappointed.

I reported Garth to WA L&I when I discovered he was operating without an active contractor's license.  He received his FOURTH ticket which came with a $5k fine, and also a $500 plumbing fine.  I also received a response from someone else on Yelp who wrote that Garth did something very similar to his apartment, right after my experience.