ALVARADO'S DRYWALL & FINISHING

Did a great job, worked with schedule, due to required rough in inspections, started and completed timely. Also cleaned site at completion.

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First day not good. Alvarado's Started with a Clean work area with new studs and all new plumbing and electrical open in plain view. First day 2 men arrived to hang drywall. Neither could communicate with home owner speaking only spanish. Green/water resistant boards were hung in bathroom incorrectly. An experienced drywall person knows to join the drywall up to the edge of the shower. Alvarados men hung the drywall leaving 2 inch gaps all around the shower. This now has to be taken down, recut and rehung. Men also punctured a wire in the staircase wall by haphazardly screwing a piece of drywall into one of the new clearly visible electrical wires. Pretended they did not know what happened and said electricity went out so they started working by a spot light. Men had taken out light bulb and fixture was broken when they showed homeowner a sizzled wire. Electrician called out and identified right away that shoddy work was done to have hit the electrical wire. Drywall has to come down so Electrician can repair. Men left the first day with inches thick of drywall dust and scraps all over the work area. Homeowner had been told that men would be cleaning up each day and try to keep dust down. The opposite was true. Homeowners 2 small children had coughing attacks for hours because of dust traveling up into house even with HVAC turned off. Men also used homeowners extension cords, plastic and tape because they came without proper supplies. Men Relocated a difficult to reach extension cord that belonged to homeowner for their own use, without homeowners permission. Now the cord has to be put back by moving heavy appliances. When homeowner checked on things at midday the men were cooking their lunch with griddles using extension cords inside the homeowners basement. Completely unprofessional! I had heard good things about this company and instead it is turning out to be a disaster. Homeowner tried to reach company but office did not answer and no voicemail at 6pm. I am hopeful that they will send out more experienced and qualified men to complete the job.

The overall impression from Alvarado's Drywall and Finishing was really good. The guy came out and walked through the whole house and took measurements. It was pretty well the next day that he gave me the price. I hired him because that price was good. Everything they did was on time and when they said they were going to do it. The work was quality work.

Alvardo's Drywall and Finishing were just absolutely perfect. Their quality of work is just awesome. They were very diligent. Their sales rep returned calls. He would make calls to me to inform me when they were going to be here. Their sales reps are just fabulous. They are the kind of company that we are very comfortable working with. They have a good crew and they knew what they doing. They were very conscientious workers. They would send somebody just to patch one little thing that they may have missed They were just fabulous.

Waited 2 weeks for a response- nothing. They do not have their business together, signs of troubles are evident. We were told we would have an estimate 2 weeks agog. I have called four times since, each time somonetold me I would have it the next dat and quot; they saw the paperowrk on their deskand quot;. Once, they quoted the man giving teh estimate didn't show up to work. My husband does framing and cutom jobs for very prominant and high-end remodels in Louisville and knows that something is not right with this company. I ma very disappapointed becasue they initially had a good reputation. We are now left to cancel all our Holiday parties becasue they could not provide a simple estimate for what their secretary called a and quot;slow 2 weeksand quot;. We know others and wil go with someone more dependable, I am disgusted that they did not communicate with us after we told them that we were also in the remodeling industry.

Call for an est. on drywall my basement. They came that day. They said that they will email me the est. the next day. My husband had to call 2 days later to remind them of the est. Got the est. that day. Price was way under the rest of the estimates. Was a little bit scare to accept the bid but read all the others reviews and gave them the job. Delivered the drywall the day after they said that they was going to delivered because of problems delivering on the other job. They are suppose to start today, and received a call last night stating that they were going to be later this afternoon because they had to finish another job first. But will be here before noon. Well they showed up at 4:00 pm worked on the basement until 8:00 pm. Drywall was installed. They was suppose to finish the drywall the next day. Well they call and said that they were very busy and asked it they could come tomorrow. Now this is Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I told them ok, because I had no other choice. They also asked if they could drive by and picked up the scrapes today and I said yes. They will be here by 11:00 am. Well they call at 11:30 am and asked how big the pile was and I told them pretty big, and they said that they will be here in 20 to 30 minutes. Well they came in 30 minutes. Now they are suppose to be here at 8:00 am. We'll see. They showed up at 9:30 am. One guy did all the finishing. Was suppose to bring the rest of the metal edging and he didn't know anything about it. What he was able to finish looked pretty good. Well be back Friday at 7:30 am to finish the rest of the drywall. Weand quot;ll seel Well they showed up at 9:30 and started. I must say that the work is very good. He show back up on Saturday as well as Sunday.. He clean up all his mess and put all the garbage outside the door for them to pick it up Monday. Well Monday they call and said that they would be here by noon , I told them that I had an doctor appointment and had to leave by noon. Well they didn't show up, nor call.. But Tuesday they showed up without calling at 8:30 am. Picked up the garbage and left. The work is very good, they just aren't very punctual. They price is very good also. I would definitely use them again.

They did a fantastic job! They came in one day and hung the bottom 16and quot;. Then, the next day they mud and tape the seams. The next day they sand, although they did such a good mud job, that they did not need to sand much. I really liked the work. I asked them to give me a bid on a 8x19 area of ceiling and a sky light drywall skim over. They wanted the same amount of money for that as they did for 2/3rds of the basement. I guess they don't like to do ceilings above 12 foot. But I definitely will use them again next time I have a wall project. Update: I had someone another company come in to do the high ceiling and skylight area. the pricing for fix and painting was less than their bid to fix. Then, I just had them out to bid on a small 3x6 area in my hall and the bid was twice as much as another bid. They were so inexpensive on the basement, now everything they bid is over all the other bids. Not sure what happened. they do a good job, but not worth the high prices they are quoting now.

We were really pleased with them.

See above.

Began with a patch job but ended up going with their recommendation of replacing drywall entirely. We haven't painted yet so final outcome hasn't been determined. Many hours were spent waiting for crew to arrive on several days. There was virtually no cleanup or prevention of messes. Words cannot describe how filthy they left our home. Our black cat is still coated in white powder. The crew didn't cover furniture and several items were ruined, a quarter inch of dust was left around the base boards and door jams. We've spent 20 hours cleaning and still have a mess on our hands.

Horrible; I never knew when they were coming. They tracked drywall dust all over finished wood floors on the first floor and put a hole in the wall going up the stairs to second level. I paid the bill and twice received invoice for the worked already paid for. The quality of the work substandard. I would never use again and would tell others not to contract with them.

Well the paint doesn't match perfect and some spots are not textured very well but for the price and the quality of work, I think they still did a decent job. I mean they did do the job pretty fast.