I wish I could give Bay Area Grout Specialist five stars because Noe and Maria are super nice! Noe…read moregave a prompt response and scheduled me within a couple weeks for shower grout and floor grout. Noe and Maria arrived on time and did a beautiful job on the shower regrout and Noe even accommodated some last minute requests to add caulking in the kitchen and quarter round. Unfortunately, we had different ideas about what grout 'touch-ups' meant for the floors - I wanted a few spots regrouted to match the rest of the flooring's grout color - but it really lacked a professional touch and didn't look good at all. I did invite Noe to come back to redo it, and it still did not meet the professional standard I paid for. I would have appreciated more thorough communication from the start to make sure I was getting what I needed. To be honest, this was not the cheapest quote I got but paid more because of the great reviews. I would be happy to change my review to 5 stars if the team wants to come back for a full regrout on the floors, but I'm not planning to pay any more than I already have. I'll attach some pictures of the beautiful shower and subpar floor grout job.

The rain was coming and I had a leak- so I was hoping Noe could come by and do a Quick Look & see…read moreif he could figure out the leak. He did! He did a seal and when the rain came and went the leak did not happen! Now we know where to address when we have more time and sunshine. Also had him check out my front steps that seem to need to be re-grouted - he pointed out white water marks coming out from the tiles is a sign of water getting in behind so he went tile by tile to figure out how many are loose. I look forward to his bid for service for spring project as he does great work so I feel like I will get a good deal and a great job well done.

Most people promise results. John at Stone Improvement actually delivers…read more We've worked with other stone repair and maintenance professionals before, so we had a pretty good benchmark going in. John was, by far, the best we've experienced. We had stains in our limestone and porcelain that we were completely convinced were permanent. We had already given up on them. John came in, took a look, and somehow brought everything back to life. It honestly felt like walking into a different home once he was done. What I appreciated just as much as the results was how he worked. He was careful, respectful of our space, and clearly knows his craft inside and out. No rushing, no cutting corners, just really thoughtful work. He also took the time to explain how to care for everything going forward in a way that actually made sense and felt doable, not overwhelming or overly technical. We don't hand out glowing reviews lightly, but this one is well deserved. We'll absolutely be having John back.

John did an excellent job restoring the hardscape in our backyard, including some delicate…read morestonework around our pool and gazebo. He was incredibly thorough, and I really admired his dedication to getting the best results possible. I would be happy to work with him again on any future stone work.

UPDATE: I have resolved the issue with the owner of the…read morecompany. They will actually reschedule the job and we will have accommodations for me and my asthma. I will have a section of the house closed off for any odors that might trigger asthma. I am not so concerned now because my asthma is usually triggered by dust and not odor and they have told me that it would be a minimum amount of dust. I will continue to work with this company and I will hire a Cleaning Crew to do a thorough cleaning of the bathroom counters etc after they have done the work ... therefore, I am changing my review based on this communication to a five star for the additional Customer Service I received. After the job is done, I will update once more with the quality of work, which I am sure will be above average. Thank you and I'm very happy to have updated this review because I dislike giving bad reviews to anyone. PREVIOUS: No one called me to discuss any issues!!! All of the communication was done by email. They cancelled my appt because I asked too many questions about the job, the dust, and the after-job clean up. I don't get why they cancelled. I just needed to know what was expected so I could make the proper arrangements because I have asthma. I had cleaned everything out of the bathroom, missed showers, and kept tub area dry per the requirements... and then I find out that they cancelled my job appointment...Maybe they cancelled because it was New Year's Eve???? SMH. ‍peers

I've been trying to update things in my 25-year old house recently (new roof, new fridge, new…read moremicrowave,...). The grout and silicone caulk in the main bathroom shower had been deteriorating for too long. It was pretty bad so I reached out to The Grout Doctor. I set up an appointment and Mac (a great guy by the way) came over a few days ago. He has over 20 years of experience and it showed. He went far beyond what I was expecting. Not only did he replace the moldy silicone all around the shower and replace all the cracked moldy grout, he completely cleaned the shower walls and floor with a razor. I never realized how much soap scum could build up even with fairly regular cleanings using a bathroom surface cleaner. Everything looks better than I expected it to look. I highly recommend giving them a call and let them work their magic. The shower now looks like it did decades ago.

Blace did an excellent job on our shower grout restoration. We had some noticeable mineral buildup…read moreon the grout, and he took the time to clearly explain what was causing it, as well as the pros and cons of cleaning versus replacing the grout. Ultimately, we went with cleaning, and the results were outstanding--the shower looks like new at a fraction of the cost of replacement. Blace was friendly, professional, and clearly takes pride in the quality of his work. He was great to work with from start to finish. I would highly recommend Blace's Grout Restoration to anyone.

Blace did a great job for us. He's careful, comprehensive, efficient, and communicative. I…read morerecommend working with him!

Phenomenal really doesn't even do Michael justice. I'd call him miracle worker. Our 14 year old,…read morecracked, stained, chipped grout surrounding our travertine and marble was really ugly and actually embarrassing when we had guests or hosted family from out of town. We called him not really anticipating the amazing transformation our shower (and tub and shower in hall bath) received. They look exactly as they did the day they were installed. We are SO pleased. Michael is prompt, super clean and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. He takes his time and actually cares about customer satisfaction. We're floored at his quality of work. Do not hesitate hiring him. You will be so glad you did

Michael is a highly skilled contractor who takes great pride in his trade. After running into some…read moreunanticipated hiccups in our project, Michael was very fair & reasonable in adjusting the contract pricing. I couldn't be happier with the end result. My shower floor grout has been restored, cleaned & sealed. I would highly recommend Michael.

The Grout Guys did an excellent job caulking and sealing several bathroom sink-to-vanity joints,…read morethe kitchen sink, and re-grouting my shower. They were quick, provided a reasonable quote compared to others I got in the area, and the work was good. I specifically waited a while to see if the grout or caulk would crack, and it's holding up well. I would give a five star review if not for a couple small things. Firstly, I was not informed up front when giving the quote that they only caulk areas where there is no paint. i.e. they can do the tub to floor, they can do sink to vanity, but they won't do vanity to drywall. I found out later that this is fairly common practice, so not a huge deal, but I did wish someone mentioned it back when I was getting the quote and not when the guy arrived on my door to do the job. So take note if you don't know much about caulking like me. Secondly - and this is the main reason I took off a star! I had a lot of items in my shower that I didn't have time to clear prior to the tech's arrival, and when I rushed to clear them, he kindly informed me that he could do so and I didn't have to. OK, great! Honestly the tech was nothing but kind to me but... I had a bin of clean laundry sitting near to the master bathroom door waiting to be folded. I returned a while later to discover that he had moved many shower items, most of which have a bit of soap stain or hair or other sticky shower nastiness on them... INTO my clean laundry bin and directly on the carpet! Needless to say I redid my laundry, moved the shower items onto a towel, and scrubbed the carpet after he left. I truly believe the tech had the best intentions, but I would advise removing your shower and tabletop things yourself if you hire The Grout Guys! Otherwise, the actual work itself was perfect :)

Efran was prompt, thoughtful, and did a quality job from start to finish re-grouting our walk-in…read moreshower. The grout had previously been done poorly and was covered with silicone caulking that collected a lot of mold and mildew. Everything looked brand new when Efran was done. He also redid the caulking for a couple of our sinks and our entire kitchen countertop. I'd highly recommend him, doesn't hurt that he's super nice too.

I do not like giving bad reviews but this guy was so unconcerned about our satisfaction with the…read morejob, and left the floor in such terrible shape, that I want to comment. The reason I am still bothered, although this was months ago now, is that he tried to gaslight both my husband and me and was very forceful with his tone of voice and language trying to convince us of things we could see were not true (neither my husband nor I are overly emotional). When we showed him the mismatched grout colors (described below) he would say they matched. But clearly they didn't. Then he would say they would dry to match. They didn't. And he repeatedly would argue like this about the very thing we could see in front of us telling us what we saw was not true, mismatched grout. He did this when he could not remove all of the white finish from the grout leaving some white spots in the grey grout, in the places where it was hardest to reach. He tried twice to remove the white from the hard to reach spots, and he said he could not. I want to say at this point he was very angry and did offer me a refund, and I suggested it felt unfair to not pay him at all (we have a strong sense of what is fair, and money is not our main concern, and they had spent hours, but with his attitude I should have taken the refund!). Instead I asked him to just come back and fix the grout and we'd call it even. When he came back, without asking me applied black grout colorant over the white spots, this time telling us the black was the same color as the grey grout. Clearly it was not, yet he argued the point that it was. He kept saying "this is the right color". Then he said in a year it might change to grey!!! (By the way, this was new tile that had the wrong finish on it, which is why we called him in... no way was the grout grey because it faded over time, it was always grey). When I saw this was going to be left mismatched, I asked him to just use the colorant over all the grout, leaving it all one color (I prefer grey but all one color was my priority). He said "We don't do that". Clearly they do! He had just done that to spots of the grout. Then, gaslighting us again, he again said that it matched (clearly it did not, it was high contrast to the grey grout) and then he said again that it would dry to match. Of course it did not. When he left this time, and he said when it dried it would turn grey, I don't know why I believed him, I think I was just exhausted by all of this. The same line had never been true before, but in the the exchanges with him he became so heated I just wanted him gone. So I thanked him and let him leave. And he left a job done horribly. No one would have been happy with that floor. I ended up hiring another company to recolor the grout and am very happy with the results. So it cost me twice as much in the end, but the guy I found was so very nice. He actually cared whether or not I was happy with the floor!!!! I clearly wasted my money, energy and time on this very rude man. NOTE: There is more to this story, when he first did the floor he did not do inside the closet, even though it is the same floor. Then when it looked different inside the closet he tried to tell me they used a different sealer in the closet area. I knew they had not, but he insisted it was their fault not his. He did, however, finally do the floor after spending much time trying to tell me it could not be done. For the hard to reach areas that were still white, I even offered that if he would tell me what to use I would clean the hard to reach spots myself but he said it's a "trade secret" and wouldn't advice me how to do it myself. He originally gave us a quote to clean the finish off our tiles, and to replace the grout. When he got there he decided just to clean the grout and not replace. Fine with me. But when he did the job, leaving several white spots where the finish was more stubborn he vehemently tried to tell me it wasn't white. I could see it was. My husband could see it was. Guests who came later could see it was. It made us feel crazy. He came back, begrudgingly and tried again, but still did not get the white off. Finally he used colorant over the white, but it was black, leaving the floor just as messed up as if it were white areas. I have attached photos of the white and black grout that he left me with, each time considering the job done. He did a terrible job but worse... he was so rude about it.

We wanted to have our pool tile cleaned and regrouted so I called a few of the grout companies I…read morefound on Yelp. Thomas responded right away and asked me to send him a video of the pool area. He said he would come the next day to take a look and give me a quote. He showed up on time and gave me a reasonable quote. In the meanwhile, I tried to call two other grout companies that both asked me to send them a video too. One followed up via text but once I started asking questions about insurance he stopped responding. The other never responded after receiving the video, so I was going to go with Thomas. I saw the recent one star review that was posted and I was concerned. I know things can go wrong with a job, but it's how a company responds to issues that tells me whether I should go with them. The review definitely gave me pause, but there were other good reviews for Thomas and his crew so I set up a time for him to come and do the work. To make sure there would be no unpleasant surprises, I asked clarifying questions about the work, his insurance, and his satisfaction guarantee. He answered everything I asked. On the day before the job was to start, we confirmed the time and he and his crew showed up on the dot. They hand scraped the tiles and reapplied the grout. I appreciated that they did not use chemicals. The reason why I gave four stars instead of five is because I specifically asked Thomas if we should start to drain the pool so they could work on the tile when they got here. He told me they would handle it. The draining process was going slow and his guys couldn't do anything until the level of the pool water was below the tile. Thomas finally suggested getting a sump pump to make the pool drain faster, but he had to drive a distance to get one. As a result, his workers were waiting around until he got back. I wish he would have come prepared with the sump pump, especially since I had asked about draining the pool beforehand. His workers did a good job, but the next day we saw that there was still some white staining on a couple of tiles that got missed so I texted Thomas. He said he would come the next day to check it out. He came and took care of it himself and then had us look everything over to make sure we were satisfied. We were.

We were dealing with ugly bathroom tiles and a big hole in the wall. I contacted three contractors…read moreand all three were comparable in pricing. One contractor didn't make a site visit. Another contractor couldn't start until two weeks later. Alex made a site visit and was very personable. With the lead time, we chose Alex. Right when we chose him, he wanted to start that day! I said OK. That afternoon the demolition began. In two weeks he completed the job. He will work around your schedule. We had a family incident and needed to push back the work a day. We also had to wait a few days for the faucet to be delivered. The hours are up to you. We were OK with his team working into the late evening to get the job done because we were down a bathroom. Vitali and Alex work really really hard and long hours. There were some up sale items, but we picked which ones we wanted. Our vanity was in bad shape; so we updated the vanity, sink, backsplash and faucet. Alex quoted us a great price and offered to do tile flooring which would have made the bathroom even nicer, but we decided that the flooring would be fine. Maybe save that for the next remodel. Going through any type of remodel or home update is emotional and risky. We did a home remodel years back and that's when we learned you can really only choose two of the three: quality, cost, or speed. With Alex we were able to get close to all three. Obviously your home is very dear, and there are small little things that you can sweat over. Your home will never be perfect. Not a year goes by without some work that needs to be done to my home. Things get old and break down. There are many things that I would do over, but everyday I go into my newly updated bathroom and smile.

Alex and his team demolished and tiled my fireplace from floor to ceiling about 10 years ago and…read moredid a beautiful job that still gets compliments from contractors. The entire project took about a week. I recently had Alex do the tile backsplash in my kitchen. Again, beautifully done and took 4 visits. Alex is extremely response, helpful, and accommodating, and his prices are reasonable. I will always go to Alex for my tiling needs!