Cliffhanger Home Repairs

He did a great job & was a pleasure to work with. We especially appreciated that he was punctual & thorough.

Cliff arrived before our scheduled appointment. He worked professionally and completed most of the work in one day (He had to come back to replace the gas valve because I need PG&E to shut off the gas line). He is very knowledgeable, friendly and did a good job on all of the tasks. He is truly a handyman and I highly recommend him.

Pretty Happy with the service

I had a wonderful experience with Cliffhanger. Cliff is a great guy!! He came and helped out with a lot of things around the house. He's friendly, professional, honest and does excellent quality work. He's knowledgable, very responsible and gets the job done. I would not hesitate to call him again or refer him to family and friends.

Cliff was a pleasure to work with, as was his assistant. They were on time every day, there was ample time given for reviewing the work of the day prior and then discussion of the work to be done that day. As I did not use a landscape designer I appreciated the team's willingness and ability to help work out the details of the overall design as well as all the details. There was clearly pride of workmanship throughout the project. I met Cliff via Angies List when looking for a handyman and was delighted to learn that he could build a deck as well. I'm very pleased with the result and can highly recommend Cliff, his work and the results.

I had a number of small things around the house a whole day job. I setup an appointment with this company 3 weeks ago and I even took a day off from work. Then he never showed up. Saying he didn't have it on his calendar and he was waiting for me to confirm. It is his word against mine. I would never use him again.

All went perfectly. I called Cliff to describe the jobs. After talking with him, I felt pretty confident he was the right guy to do the work, and we arranged a time for him to come the following week. He first assessed the jobs, and then talked with us about what he needed to do. The first three tasks all presented some challenges, but he went right to work and eventually problem-solved all. (This included running to our local OSH to get some needed materials.) He worked hard throughout, consulting along the way, performing each job to our satisfaction. We definitely feel like we got our money's worth and would not hesitate to call Cliff again or recommend him to others.

It went excellent for me, I would recommend them.

Nov. 20th I contacted Cliff Dovey and asked if he had time to come over and help me do some work on my home. Nov. 21st Cliff responded, "I have next Tuesday open. Let me know if you are interested Thanks Cliff" Nov. 22nd I responded, "I couldn't do next Tues the 25th, I have painters here. Can you do it on the Wed the 26th or the Friday the 28th? Let me know". Nov. 24th Cliff responded, "Hi ----- this is Cliff,I have marked you down for Wednesday, November 26th 8 AM Please let me know if there are any changes thank you" Nov. 25th Cliff responded, " Would you like next Wed. Dec. 3rd" Nov. 25th I responded, "Hi Cliff, next Wed. Dec. 3rd will not work for us. Hopefully, we can finish the project list together tomorrow. I have the painters lined up for the next week. See you tomorrow. Cheers!" After that, Cliff never responded back and never bothered to show up either! When I called Cliff at 8:30am on the 26th, the day of our scheduled appointment, Cliff said he was at another job. Cliff told me he had double booked me! Cliff said he sent me an email and then he said that I must not have read it. I told Cliff that I had received his email on the 25th and had responded back to him. I also told Cliff that no where in his email did he mention anything about being double booked! Additionally, I said he had confirmed our appointment three days ago, so how could he now be double booked? Bottom line, I believe Cliff had a better job to go to and he just blew me off. The good news is, at least I saved the $20.00 he expected me to pay for his gas that day! I would never hire Cliff again!

Cliff showed up on time as promised and helped us install a whole bunch of things inside the home. He helped us with dismantling and re-assembling a IKEA PAX wardrobe, stabilized a standing cutlery shelf, installed laundry shelves from Lowes, installed the LACK shelves from IKEA and installed ELFA railing units and shoe closet. He was prompt and thorough in his work.

Cliffhanger was knowledgeable and informative.

He was on time and prompt. He fixed loose wired under the house, snaked the bathroom sink, pressure washed the house, touched up paint inside, and removed some branches in the backyard.

The cabinets were heavy. I would have them come back.

I am very happy with his work. Arrived on the dot as scheduled, worked efficiently and cleaned up after he got done. Quality of work is excellent, of the 6 major tasks listed above, only 1 (wiring for extra garage lights) could have been a bit better in quality. He is a very friendly person with positive attitude. Rates per hour are quite reasonable.

Cliff made room for me in his VERY busy schedule and made my windows safer, re-assembled furniture the moving men had not assembled properly, and fixed my kitchen sink and showerhead - all in about 90 minutes. He also showed me how to fix/maintain a couple of small things myself to save money. He arrived on time, and was very professional throughout. Will definitely use him again!!!

Cliff arrived on schedule, surveyed what was to be done, went hardware store for parts, and completed the entire job in a timely 4 hours.

Cliff has performed several handyman services for my rentals on the Peninsula. He has been responsive, productive, and effective. I'm very happy with his work and will continue to use his services.

Cliff was there on time, ready to work, with his trailer of all his tools! He was prepared for what ever we may encounter during this job. We couldn't find any suitable power junction boxes inside the attic to splice into, so we decided it would be better to run a new circuit from the power panel in the garage. Unfortunately there was no room to add any new breakers inside the power panel, so we decided to swap out one of the single breakers for a dual breaker to be able to add a new 15-amp circuit. Once we decided on a plan-of-attack, cliff started running the wiring while I made a Home-Depot run to pick up the needed parts. Cliff removed the old breaker, and installed the new dual circuit breaker. He then wired the original circuit the first side of the dual breaker. Cliff then ran all the wiring needed to add a new 15-amp circuit off the second side of the dual breaker. For this he was able to cut a small section of sheet rock out directly above the power panel in order to run the new wire inside the wall. He wired in a metal octagonal junction box up near the rafters. From the junction box, he split off for the attic fan, and for the new power outlets in the garage. 14-2 indoor Romex was used. From the junction box he ran new Romex along the rafters and down inside the sheet rock where he installed a new outlet box containing 2 new power outlets. Very neat and clean installation. From the other side of the junction box, he wired more 14-2 Romex along the rafters into the attic space for the attic fan. A 17" piece of 2 x 4 was needed to frame the gable vent for installation of the gable mounted attic fan. Cliff was able to securely mount the attic fan, positioned for maximum airflow. Then he wired the fan into the new 15-amp circuit. He wired the thermostat in such a way that it was relocated to a more central location within the attic space, both for better functionality as well as easy access near the attic access hatch. End result is more functionality than I had originally anticipated, because of the use of the dual breaker, and adding the new 15-amp circuit & new power outlets in the garage. I will recommend Cliff to my friends and family, and I won't hesitate to call him anytime I need anything else done.

This was my second consecutive day booked for Cliff's services. He arrived on time, ready to work, and was nothing less than professional the whole time. He was able to install a set of frame-less sliding shower doors on to an upstairs 5-foot bathtub. I had purchased the shower door set/kit a few weeks ago. The bottom and top rails needed to be cut to size, and Cliff was able to cut both with a very high degree of precision. Both rails fit in an ultra-snug fashion! Cliff's attention to detail was superb. He even found the screws which came with the kit weren't long enough to seat deep enough in the studs for solid enough structural integrity. These screws had particularly small heads in order to fit inside the sliding door bumpers, so rather than wasting time trying to go find these odd screws at a store, he custom made the longer screws we needed! He has just about any tools needed to complete any job inside his trailer! After the sliding doors were installed, Cliff cleaned up his work area, and showed me the final results -- wow -- outstanding! Remember this was the same tub/shower Cliff fixed the nagging long-term in-the-wall water leak the day before! We then proceeded to my rental property to scope out what would be necessary, and gather all the details for installation of an attic fan. Because of the extreme heat in the attic, and other obligations I had to attend to, we decided to reschedule the remainder of the attic fan work for another day. So far Cliff has completed 3 out of 4 job for which I've engaged him for, and I'm very happy with everything. I will definitely be calling Cliff to schedule the remainder of work to compete job #4 (attic fan installation at my rental property). I can safely recommend Cliff's services, from positive personal experience.

Cliff arrived promptly on time, ready to work, with all the necessary tools to get everything done. After a short discussion to confirm the issues we needed addressed, Cliff got right to work. Cliff was easy going, easy to talk to and was very professional. He was able to complete 2 out of 4 jobs for which we engaged his services for. The 1st. job was troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing a nagging water leak inside the wall which kept us from using our upstairs hall bathroom. Cliff was able to locate the area of the leak, and narrow down and pinpoint it's exact location. He was able to perform the necessary repair without cutting into the walls! I was more than thrilled to confirm the water leak was in fact fixed! The 2nd. job was troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing an existing attic fan which was no longer working. Cliff was able to determine the attic fan was fine, but wasn't turning on because of a bad thermostat. Cliff replaced the bad thermostat, and rewired everything to relocate the thermostat to a more central area of the attic. The attic fan now kicks on when needed. After having very clear productivity and success with Cliff's services, I asked Cliff if he could come the next day for jobs #3 and #4. Luckily he had originally blocked out two days in his schedule for all our needs. Cliff was able to carry all the heavy materials upstairs to stage and prepare for job #3 the next day. I will write up another review for those jobs.

It wasn't cheap. He is a pretty good guy. He says what he does he is going to do. He is definitely not an expert in sprinkler systems, but if he managed to do the job pretty well without the vacuum break, he managed to do the job. I asked the plumber about his work, and he said it wasn't elegant, but it was decent. He should have done a bit of internet research on that, on setting up those type sprinkler system before he did the top and I knew more about these things than he, so. I would probably use him again.

Clifford started very promptly in the morning. He was very professional and his easy going personality made our experience a pleasant one. He was very well prepared to do the work, which he brought his tool trailer as well. After he completed the repair, he added wood screws to each stair step to make it more solid. He then painted the entire stair railing. It looks like new! He completed our job by mid-afternoon and the final price was well worth it! I would definitely hire Clifford again in the future!

The service went pretty well. It was a little more of a harder job than what I had figured. He did get the job done, however. He was there for about 2 hours. He was determine to solve the issue. Scheduling was fairly easy. He was about to go out of town he said, but he called me back to let me know he would be able to come out when I needed.

He was punctual and finish the job on time. I would be happy to recommend him to my friends if they need a handyman to help them with their house project.

Cliff visited my home twice and both times he explored multiple options to figure out the problem. Unfortunately we still could not find it. But I appreciate his professionalism in diagnosing the problem. He is much better than the earlier contractors who advised me based on assumptions on where the leak was than actually physically investigating and narrowing the problem. Also he is very reasonable, I will call him again in a heartbeat.