Having had a number of projects I needed done I found it hard to find a trust worthy general…read morecontractor to handle them. If you ever had work done to your house, at least here in California, you know what I'm talking about. It is difficult to find an honest, timely, hardworking general contractor who does quality work. After a few dudes I found Joe of Balestreri Building Group who has all of those qualities and fair pricing as a bonus. It was no accident I found Joe. I got so fed up looking for a good contractor that I finally decided to just pay top dollar and call one of the large construction contractors in my area to do some structural work on my house. The contractor told me he really doesn't do "smaller" jobs like mine as he is a home builder and he recommended that I call Joe Balestreri. I can't be happier with the work Joe Balestreri did for me. He helped me with the design and visualization, provided a drawing of his proposal and sent me daily status reports which kept me up-to-date on the projects. He also made suggestions on how I could save money on the project even when it would have meant he made less money. I'm no stranger to construction; my grandfather, father and I were all SEABEEs (Naval Construction Battalion) service men so I know good work and knowledgeable people when I see them and Balestreri Building Group is all of those and more.

My business partner and I had met with many contractors to help get us going with our new business…read more Joe was the first to do what he said he would and in the time frame that was agreed upon. He made our gym have the finished look we need to set ourselves apart and represent who we are. Joe would go above and beyond what was needed: be it cleaning things that he was even directly responsible for, or working late hours to keep on schedule. Men with integrity are hard to find at times, and in business this becomes even more appreciated so we're glad we found him.

We originally wanted a quote on some concrete work in our backyard when we contacted Chris. We set…read moreup appt for later in week and he was prompt and professional. He ended up quoting us for turf and landscaping in our front yard as well. We had already got several bids from other contractors, his was not the cheapest but he was the most explanatory so we chose CRD. Project was on time and only delayed when we had unexpected rain, but Chris stayed in constant communication with us every step of the way. Chris had multiple workers on our project and he checked in with us everyday to make sure we agreed with work and to make sure it was satisfactory before proceeding to next phase. We are super happy with the outcome of our project and have referred Chris to several friends. We will definitely hire Chris again for future projects in our yard.

It was almost 9 months since we had Chris of CRD do our backyard makeover. We need demo of our old…read morepatio and hardscape 90% of the backyard. We also had Chris expand our front driveway. Chris was great to work with. He gave us all our options. I should have took his advice on placement of the concrete work table. At no time I felt that slimy contractor vibe. Chris was straight forward and honest about the work and materials. I waiting 9 months for the review because I want to see how his work held up. I'm happy to say there were only minor issues. I'm very happy with his work and his pricing was very, very competitive. He finished the job on time and on budget.

My entire kitchen had to be demolished due to water damage. I solicited A.C. Drywall,…read moreOmar the owner came out to to give me a quote to replace the drywall in the kitchen, the ceilings in the kitchen and dining room, skimcoat and paint my kitchen, dining room and living room. He was able to give me a quote on the spot and time frame to complete the job. His price was fair and his work AMAZING! ! He kept to his timeline and his work was completed on schedule. He is Very professional and a pleasure to work with. I changed my paint color and had to have him come back for touchup work due to trade damage with the installation of cabinets. I will use him for any future painting or drywall needs. He was respectful of my home and protected the areas he worked around. I HIGHLY Recommend his company~ Thank you Omar & A.C. Drywall and Paint I LOVE my upgrades... you raise the bar high!

No one answers the phone and you cannot leave a message! And no email address. How does one…read morecontact them?---drive to Lemon Grove??

Ucon did a super job installing a new built in Thermador refrigerator. The cut out was existing,…read morethis was a replacement appliance. The team showed up as scheduled, on time and were meticulous in their work. The company was very easy to work with. The panels on the front of the fridge had to be installed, they are not part of the stock appliance. They were installed perfectly.

Initial conversations with Andrew were promising and pleasant. He sounded like he knew what and how…read moreneeded to be done. He knew about all challenges of the project and was ready to address them all (us living in the house during remodeling was one of them). Unfortunately, working with Andrew was a very stressful and unpleasant experience. He doesn't know how to treat customers, gets very offensive, rude. His workers are unprofessional, lazy, and have to be supervised by the customer at all times, otherwise work needs to be redone or fixed. Andrew was not on the project regularly and sometimes it took 3-4 days before he came to the house to check on the progress. As a result the project was stretched for an unnecessary few more weeks. One of Andrew's responses about poor scheduling jobs: some weeks the workers worked 2 days, some 1.5 day/week, he said: "I'm a freelancer, and don't have any commitment to have 8 hours daily on your project". He didn't care that his workers didn't clean after the day of work, and left us for days (weekends included) in the middle of an unnecessary mess. We were very concerned about quality of the floor installation and he was trying to convince us that it's standard and the floor will " settle" in a couple of weeks, When almost all the floor was installed ( a small area in the living room was left to finish) and we asked him the check the quality of the installation before installing the floorboard, Andrew announced to us the he is stopping the project (after 6 weeks of work) and will send us a new quote to redo the floor! There was no way we would spend more time and money and have him and his workers to do that. Just because we were exhausted physically and mentally by Andrew, we asked him to finish the project. We have a "jumping" floor all over the house which will be a bad reminder of this contractor. Don't wish this on anyone! Stay away from hiring Andrew and Ucon Design and Remodeling.

The gate he created was nice. Powder coated white, but it had some issues and I requested Johnny to…read morefollow up. He never did. Now 4 years later the gate hinge snapped off and I reached out for repair work and got zero response again. Not sure why he doesn't follow up, but I will be looking elsewhere for help.

Johnny did an amazing job fabricating a custom wrought iron railing for my Little Italy condo…read more He had helpful insight into the modern look I wanted to achieve. I needed the railing made fairly quickly and Johnny completed and installed the railings in about a week as promised. His price was reasonable,too.

I hate to hurt anyone's business in this tough COVID time, but do not use this contractor. I am…read moregoing to have to pay $3,500 to have the patio they built for us cleaned and re-sealed for the shoddy work they did. To go back to the beginning, the job was beyond annoying throughout, and looking back on my texts to see timeline for this review, during the job I had to resend almost every text at least twice to get an answer from Curt. Interestingly, when it was a question about payment, he'd answer a text right away! They finished a patio installation for us last June (2019). I noticed over the winter that the patio was extremely faded and had a white film on it. Emailed Curt, May 13, 2020. No response. Re-mailed him on May 16. No response, but I was just beginning a virtual class for a client on the following Monday 9:00 a.m. when he and another guy appeared out my window in my back yard. I called him when I was finished with the virtual class. Another guy I'd never spoken with answered Curt's phone, and confirmed the patio shouldn't look like that they could probably reseal it the following week. Great! A few days later I texted asking when that following week they thought they would redo it, so I would know when they were coming, have the shades down, etc. No reply. I texted 1.5 weeks later to check in. He replied "We haven't forgotten about you. We are super busy. Don't have an exact date at this time. Carey will reach out when we have an opening. Thank you." Really??? Subsequent reaching out to him has gotten no response and it's now August 14, three months later. (I would ask Curt, if he had a product, say a car that had a tarnished finish, and the seller had said that should not be that way and, "We can probably come out next week and fix it" and then they didn't show, didn't reply to texts, until finally, "We're busy. We'll let you know when we have an opening" how he would feel. And how he would feel when there still was no resolution 3 months later. You are never going to be less busy than you are right now. It's a matter of making it happen and honoring that this is something you are obligated to make right.) I gave up, and starting in mid-June I reached out to several other vendors to discuss what Mechling did wrong so this would happen, I had these other vendors come by, I discussed and considered options of what to do to remedy it, etc, etc taking lots of time and energy to fix something that Mechling should have handled. Bottom line is I am going to have to pay $3,500 to have the patio cleaned off and re-sealed for the faulty work they did. (Even though one vendor said Mechling was legally obligated to fix this since it happened within a year. I haven't verified this is true.) But at this point I don't trust them to redo it even if they would respond to me since asking them several times what they would do differently if they resealed, there was never a reply or a call to reach out and discuss the situation with me. Do not deal with this contractor.

This is hands down the best service I have ever received from any category of services. The…read moreprofessionalism, the kindness, the promptness, and the quality of this contractor should be the example for any type of business model. They weren't just on time, they were a few minutes early, the team was clean and organized, and the work is flawless. Curt, the owner, is an amazing individual and genuinely compassionate and kind. He will go over every option with you and doesn't leave out a single detail. I wish I could give more stars but unfortunately I can't. I know that I will only use C.D. for any home service I need because there is no point to looking around for other contractors, as these guys can do anything. I had a small concrete job on my back patio done, and it looks great. They were quick and efficient and cleaned up after themselves. All the workers were very nice and were incredibly hard working. Do not look any further, pick this company!

Very professional, organized, great work & good communication skills, the bestread more

Jeff and his team completed a kitchen renovation, along with the installation of tile floors and…read morere-tiling a fireplace in my small condo. He was great to work with (completed on time and on budget), and really worked with me to save money on material by allowing me to purchase the tile materials (even recommended the best places to get great deals). I would definitely hire him again! I also know several other people who have hired him, and they have also been happy with his work.

This guy, Brian seemed to be the answer to finally finding a good handyman. We believed the reviews…read moreof him being "knowledgeable as well as having very reasonable prices". Well now I see why he has "reasonable rates." Unfortunately, he did NOT live up to his reviews to say the least. His bid said it would only take him 8 hours. It became clear right off the bat that he didn't know what he was doing when, I, who is not handy, had to ask him to cover our plants before he started prepping our cement patio for the paint job.... he then never thought to cover our bbq made with real stone and beautiful stainless steel doors so that when he put the etching solution on the stained patio it sprayed up on them eating away the stainless steel... He had to go back and forth to the hardware store because as it turned out he "read the directions wrong" and didn't need to actually etch the type of cement we had. At the end of his first day he didn't even begin to paint the cement. We sent him the above picture as well as the receipt of how much we paid for them which was actually more than his entire bid. I get why this would make him upset as he clearly would now be losing money on this job. But he should have been pissed at himself not at us!! He spent another several hours angrily trying to fix HIS mistake in hopes that he wouldn't have to buy us the new doors. "Surprisingly" (with sarcasm if the quotations didn't clue you in) none of what he tried worked so his bright idea was to then use a sanding machine and sand it off... Once we expressed frustration over the destruction of our doors and that this would obviously not work for us, he attempted to paint the first coat. Not only did he water down the paint which the directions CLEARLY stated not too, he sloppily and quickly rolled out the first of the three required coats then angrily packed up all his gear and walked off the job telling me "...let's call it EVEN," leaving us stuck with having to buy new doors and hire another contractor to finish his horrible job! Tell me Mr. Cavan how is this anywhere NEAR EVEN! Best of luck to YA!! We will be sending a letter to the Contracting licensing board!!

When the big rains came to SD my backyard retaining block wall made of dirt and bricks started…read morefalling over. I hired Cavan construction to fix it. Hard to decipher in the photo, but I needed a specialist to really figure out how secure the wall, make it safe, so my neighbors yard wouldn't sink into ours.They showed up promptly with a big cement truck and did a great job! Brian re-laid each brick by hand, he was courteous, reliable and did a honest job. Since then, I have also hired him to build me a 16' shed. He took the time to sketch out a rough draft we discussed colors he took extra time to get it right. He has great quality craftsmanship and it came out beautifully.