Pawel was very easy to deal with. His crew was great and the…read morework was done professionally and on time. Highly recommend.

I highly recommend Pawel and team for their concrete cement work. Here is a before and after. The…read moredemolition took 1 hour. Finishing work took 2 hours (all before 12pm) You can't go wrong with how hard they work. I knew their reviews stood for something and went with my gut. I'm hiring them back for my stairs next week and look forward to amazing results. Hard working team here, and prices are reasonable.

Jonathan and his team were professional, prompt, and communicated very well. They explained…read moremultiple options and their pros and cons. The work was completed on time and within budget. A great experience!

Jonathan was very professiona, gave fair quote, did great work, and got the job done much sooner…read morethan I anticipated. Big thanks for your help!

I had National Roofing and Masonry fix a number of brick joints that were dried and cracking by…read moreremoving and applying new sealant to the joints, plus they redid the caulking around all of my doors and windows. Plus they tuckpointed a number of eroded joints and then applied brick and block sealant as a final step. Great communication from Toni and Josh. Toni was very hands with his crew doing my project. Really appreciated how quickly were fit in to their schedule. Also, really appreciated the quality of work done and the that the price was very reasonable. Will definitely call them first when it comes time to do my roof or other exterior work.

Unfortunately I got ghosted after meeting up to discuss a re-roofing project. I was not able to…read morework with this contractor this review is just based on the lack of response or proposal after the project was reviewed.

I contacted David at American Masonry to add masonry to a basement in a residential home in Pilsen…read more The house has a wood frame but part of the basement was missing masonry. I found American Masonry on Yelp. David was very helpful. He gave me a fair estimate, explained all his work, and answered all my questions. I appreciated his prompt response. I know he is super busy but he was able to schedule the work quickly and complete the work in a timely manner. He did a great job and the final results have given me great peace of mind. I would recommend him to any homeowner in need of work.

Excellent service provided by David, not only did he tuck point my garage but he also went above…read moreand beyond to install a metal door for my garage. He was on time and all the work was completed. Thanks David !

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.

Tony and his crew are top-notch! We'd been meaning to repair a drywall issue in our bathroom…read moreceiling for quite some time, and Tony provided a fair, reasonable quote and worked around our tight schedule to get it done. His team was efficient and thorough - within just a few hours, the ceiling looked brand new. We're extremely happy with the results and the overall experience. I've already walked Tony through a few additional projects in our apartment and look forward to working with him again soon.

Great pricing: they realized the door itself needed a slightly wider frame, so they did a quick run…read moreto Home Depot to pick up the stuff they needed. From our conversation, they mainly do interior work, so I'll be sure to keep them in mind for anything that goes beyond by DYI skill set. Great guys, great price, great results!

I had such a wonderful experience with Stratagem and their sister company when they updated my…read morekitchen that, after recently moving, I decided to use them again to add an electric fireplace and shelving to a blank wall in my new living room. Their work did not disappoint! The designer was so helpful in transplanting my vision into a beautiful design plan within my budget. The workmanship is excellent and the workmen that did the instillation and painting were professional, diligent, and friendly. Everyone at Stratagem from the owner, Mitch, to each person that works for him is helpful, thoughtful, and committed to doing good work. Having worked with them twice, I can confidently say that they are a delightful company to work with their work delivers beautiful results.

Mitch and his team at Stratagem saw thorugh the entire process of the construction like I've never…read moreseen another contractor do. They built two beautiful bathrooms and, crucially, managed the project such that we could sit in the spectator seat comfortably. We live in a high-rise, and, for example, they communicated with the HOA so we didn't have to (insurance, freight elevator, loading dock, etc). When a minor issue surfaced years later Stratagem fixed it without questions asked. Great experience overall, haven't had another re-modeling project done in such a professional and (to us) easy way.