The services delivered were absolutely awful…read more He seemed knowledgeable but did not deliver. The tile job was terrible. As you can see the grout lines are uneven and thick. He installed our flooring and it it is uneven. He installed a 100 pound barn door into the dry wall. My husband had to reinstal. We have never experienced anything like this. The tile grout has been bleeding for over a month. We were told by the contractor that is going to fix it that they would never suggest black grout in a shower or the type of grout Mark used.We have to have the tile redone and when we asked him for a refund to fix it he didn't respond. we were encouraged by the contractor fixing his mess to request the refund.

Mark has done a myriad of jobs in our home, quickly, efficiently, and with great attention to…read moredetails. He has tiled our kitchen backsplash; painted our entire home (ceilings included); installed ceiling fans, bathroom lighting fixtures, glass shower doors, bathroom faucets, vanity counter tops, entry way storm door, replaced toilet hardware/wax rings. He is quick to respond, very careful in his work, and great on clean-up. In times where it is often difficult to find a honest, reliable handyman, Mark is the man to call. We recommend his services!

Love these guys! They respond quickly and take time to explain things to you! Prices are very…read morereasonable too! Paul & Jim are awesome. Always respectful of my home and very nice! Couldn't ask for more. Highly recommend this business!

Used Valley Chimney for the first time today. Dan & Lee were excellent technicians! Prompt, quick,…read morethorough and efficient. They cleaned our chimney and replaced a gas lighter pipe. We really appreciated their expertise as we just moved into this house and had not had a fireplace like this before so we were not familiar with the mechanisms. They taught us how to use it, which was super easy. Will definitely use them again in the future and highly recommend to everyone.

Technician Matt Tombers came out yesterday and did a tune up. He resolved an issue I had with my…read morefireplace within the first five minutes. Fireplace now working like new Thank you Matt

Installed a new fireplace insert for us. Everything was done quickly with no disruption. Will Mew…read moreand his team were extremely professional and explained the functions so it was easy for us to understand. We highly recommend Southwest Fireplace!

Blumen Gardens is a total gem. We are so lucky to have it in our community. The space is thoughtful…read moreand gorgeously curated and the staff is knowledgeable and friendly. Big shout out to Lois on the staff- she's so informative and funny too... helped us out so much.

In an old factory building Blumen Gardens is an eclectic mix of garden center, events space and…read moreindoor decor. Between the indoor space and the outdoor gardens it's huge too. We came for an easter egg hunt which was very well done. We had a great time and left with a few new things too.

We had an urgent need to paint our garage walls. Put a request out on Sunday afternoon, Paul was…read morefirst to respond. We quickly jumped on the phone, I explained the job, he asked a bunch of great questions. Paul offered a fair price and came out the next morning. The job was done within the day as he had promised, and we couldn't be happy with the results. When he initially quoted the price over the phone, we thought we'd be able to get by with a single coat of paint. We ended up doing two coats which fortunately we had enough paint for. Paul charged a very fair incremental charge for the second coat. Highly recommended if you want quality painting at a fair price. Paul was great to work with.

I learned a lot of things from my Dad-- How to be fair, how to work really hard and do more than is…read moreasked of you, how to be generous: I did not learn that if you have a fireplace and use it regularly, even if you always use hardwood, you will need to have it cleaned regularly. So after twenty years of making modest hardwood fires, I started to have a cough. My sister came to visit and even being in the living room (no fire) made her cough and gave her a runny nose. Thinking, okay, I'll have my chimney cleaned, I called Chicago Chimney. Toni was nice and said that Mario was really good at his work, and it would be $150. When he came, pleasant, personable, and clearly competent, I could see that being near my fireplace was making his nose run. I told him about my sister. Might need more that just a cleaning, he said. He shone his flashlight up a short ways into the fireplace. "I call that black glass", he said. What is it? I said. My English is not so good, he said, underestimating his excellent skills. Google clarified. I found out that bubbles of "black glass" represent the third stage of a serious creosote problem-- first soot, then tar that is runny, then the glass part, beautiful and perfectly ready for a chimney fire. One thing about my dad, he prepared me to know a good person when I saw him. Mario said that he was going to have to come back with material and brushes that could dissolve the creosote. The next day, when forty or fifty pounds of mortar on the chimney lining just fell off piece by piece once the creosote was not holding it all together, he explained that another day and another step would be involved, putting a mixture of protective covering over a now very porous surface, insulation, sealant. (As it happened, he did this himself by crawling up into the tight black space and painting it on. The dilemma of having a helper who was unwilling to do it was a problem he would deal with later. He took the guy off to another job and came back. It was this part, where he was a matter of fact about doing the exceptionally nasty work, and understanding about the kid's inability to do it-- he just said "last winter I was doing this every day." I want to put a sign up in my yard for him and his professional and humane work. He charged me $900 for the cleaning part and $1100 for the resealing part. Interestingly, this is less than $150/ year for 20 years, not even counting inflation; I recommend him wholeheartedly for yearly (or every-other-year sweeping) and for the whole cleaning and sealant job if you are someone who didn't know how bad it could get. He does tuckpointing too. The warmth and charm apparently come free.

we hired Chicago Chimney company to repair our chimney as well as our fireplace. The concrete on…read morethe chimney repair is crumbling and deteriorating. We contacted the company and they told us they would send the guy back out to repair the work, but they never did. Then they told us that the guy Mario, who did the work does not work for them anymore. We ask them to send someone else to repair our chimney . They stopped taking our phone calls and would not answer our text messages. I recommend anyone needing chimney work to stay away from this company.