Bid out my job, which was replacement of a corroded water pipe from the city's main line to my house, which is quite an expensive undertaking and their prices were reasonable and broken down in detail. Talked to all the experts about water main line replacement, took my time, chose Raytone and was really glad I did. Took about a week to negotiate the line by line contract, but that is to be expected. Polite, on-time, and worked like horses right through lunch for almost 12 hours straight to make sure the water was turned off and back on to the house in just one day, which included re-pouring the concrete and re-paving the street with asphalt. When I first called for an estimate they showed up with an underground map of where all the pipe and utilities were underground from the city, which showed they meant business. Then over the course of a week they came back and spray painted in neon colors where the electric and gas lines were in the street and the sidewalk. The day before they posted signs all over the place saying "No Parking", but it is Brooklyn, and no one pays attention. They showed up at 7am and even helped located whose car belonged to which house on the street, and got them to move it, as they had pulled DOB and ECB permits for the work, and were legally entitled to have no cars in the area. They dug up the street, and under my house, and pushed through a pipe to the basement, raised the water meter up, installed a brand spanking new emergency turn off valve (replacing one that had to be at least 100 years old), swept and cleaned up everything, really stellar work. It was a major operation and problem and stress free (at least on my end), and even showed me the old corroded lead pipe they were replacing with copper and a PVC outer pipe (to guard against electric spike attacks on the copper from underground electric lines). Looks like I'm good to go for another 100 years. read more