Thomas Byrd

Description of Work: well repair

Description of Work: Replace a well pump.

Description of Work: I hired him to inspect my well.

Description of Work: fix sump pump

Description of Work: Unclogged kitchen sink and install garbage disposal.

Description of Work: Requested to repair a water pipe leak

Description of Work: I have the protection plan from American Water Resources, I call American Water Resources and they send this contractor, the drain for my washer machine was clog, after 2 days of trying to fix the problem he told American Water Resources that the damage wasn't cover for the protection plan, and that he would provide me with an estimate to fix the problem, after a week of waiting for the estimate, he finally provide me with one, We schedule a date and time for him to come and fix the problem and he never show up, He stood me up 3 times more after that, now he wont even answer the phone. Now I got somebody else to do the job and it turns out that the damage was cover for the protection plan and he just try to bail out of the job because it couldn't get it fix, He is an incompetent contractor. He is the worst contractor ever not even bother on calling him, He wont show up. and if you are lucky enough for him to show up he wont get it fix.He has no integrity and respect for his clients. Approximate estimated price was $800.00.

Description of Work: Thomas Byrd replaced and enlarged the leach field lines coming from the septic tank.

Description of Work: Thomas Byrd cleared a clogged drain for us.

Description of Work: Thomas Byrd fixed a leak in our house.

Description of Work: The high cost is for 5.5 hours of work tackling a punch list on a single day and includes the cost of some basic pipe fitting materials.

Description of Work: installed new kitchen faucet and repaired drain on 1 sink alos checked my garbage disposal

Description of Work: My shower handle did not work. The handle was removed and part was taken out to be replaced.

Description of Work: Terrific.

Description of Work: Was very pleased with the service. My sprinkler system was leaking all over my basement, I called on Saturday, when they are closed, but they had an emergency tech come out and fix the problem. He was here within 20 minutes after I called, fixed the problem quickly, and made sure that all the air was out of the system before leaving.

Description of Work: We recently purchased a home in Sea Isle City and it is a typical upside down house for SIC. We had a washer and dryer on the lower level however we wanted a washer and dryer also on the upper level. Byrd Bros came out and installed the gas line for the new dryer and the water line for the new washer in an upstairs bathroom that previously had not housed a washer or dryer.

Description of Work: Had new Hot Water Heater (Bradford and White) and a drip pan installed for $1100 on 2/4/2012.

Description of Work: I needed a new bathroom sink stopper.

Description of Work: Called at 9 a.m. on a Saturday and someone was at our house within an hour. The kitchen sink was clogged very badly. Thomas was very professional and once he knew that he needed to use the snake, he informed us of how much it would cost. Took about 1 1/2 hours for him to complete the job. He had to use 35 ft of cable to unclog the drain.

Description of Work: CALLED THIS COMPANY IN REGARDS TO MY SEPTIC SYSTEM AND WAS TOLD THAT SOME ONE WOULD BE OUT THAT DAY AND A CALL WOULD BE MADE BEFORE THEY WERE COMING, WHICH ALL HAPPENED. I DID NOT KNOW THE THE ACTUAL LOCATION OF THE SEPTIC SYSTEM, BUT IN A SHORT WHILE, HE WAS ABLE TO LOCATE IT. HE CLEANED THE TANK AND RECOMMENDED A TOPPER BE PUT ON, SO THAT IT COULD BE FOUND THE NEXT TIME. THE TOPPER WAS DELIVERED AND PUT ON LATER THAT DAY. THIS WAS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH SEPTIC TANKS, SO , I AM UNAWARE OF WHAT SOMETHINGS LIKE THIS WOULD COST, SO AT THE TIME, IT SEEMED PRICEY, BUT HAVE FOUND OUT SINCE THEN, THAT IT WAS A FAIR PRICE. I WILL CERTAINLY CALL HIM AGAIN. I ASKED HIM FOR A NAME OF A HEATING AND AC MAN THAT WORKS ON OIL HEATERS, AND HE GAVE ME THE NAME OF A MAN, THAT HE USES AND THAT TOO WORKED OUT WELL. VERY SATISFIED WITH THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE.

Description of Work: We have an old house with a very old toilet which has recently been clogging up every couple of weeks. I thought we needed the pipe to the sewer cleaned out. The plumber checked it out from the street into the house, from the house to the street, and took the toilet apart.

Description of Work: Opened ceiling in the kitchen to access the shower drain above. Replaced everything from the drain through the trap, to the pipe....about 36 inches of total pipe.

Description of Work: 1. Cut into and inspected vent pipe in which "we" had lodged a "garden-hose type bladder" more than a year before, when "we" had tried to improve our intermittently slow running drains throughout the house, and in particular the shower in the master bath. He didn't find the bladder that had become lost in a vent pipe when it had become disconnected from the garden hose my brother was trying to clear the roof vent pipes with. He resealed the attic vent pipe. 2. He snaked and used acid to try and clear the master bath shower drain. When this showed no change, he use a small power router and went several yards into this drain where he met a very resistant blockage. He persisted and the blockage finally gave way, and then the drain worked great. He ran the shower for ten-fifteen minutes to make sure it wouldn't back up again. He also checked and made sure all the other toilets and drains throughout the house worked well... and they did. We thought we were home free and very happy with his work. 3. He was here about two and half hours, working steadily and quickly, and the charge was 375. We were well satisfied as that shower was mostly used by guests on weekends and had been a annoying issue with people using that room (that room unused most of the time) and having to take quick showers, etc. 4. The next morning the downstairs drains/toilets were backing up. (we had about 5 xtra people staying at the house over Christmas, and so much greater water usage, etc.) 5. Called Byrd up and Pete came back out. We were all surprised that we had a problem again, but NOW IT WAS DOWNSTAIRS which hadn't been a problem. 6. Pete tried clearing the drain with the electric router via the downstairs toilet bowl (which was blocked now). He met no resistance, so he knew the problem was in the main basement pipes beyond the reach of the router thru downstairs toilet. He went outside, located and opened the septic system and went in thru that with a much LARGE power router, it took some doing to get that maneuvered many yards far up thru the basement pipes. This took well over an hour, but he finally ran into a significant blockage. He should have been able to clear that blockage but when he withdrew the router, the blockage didn't flow out into the septic. So, he went into the basement and opened a main pipe that flows thru the cinder block and out into the septic tank. He called me over and showed me what he found. There lodged at the end of the pipe (where it meets the septic) was a LARGE 3 inch bladder, blocking the pipe almost completely where the pipe meets the septic tank. He was able to use a long gripper tool to go in a couple yards and retrieve that bladder. He closed the access cap on the basement pipe and checked everything in the house again. All drains/toilets working like when the 22 year old house was new. what had happened: a. we had told him the wrong size bladder (1in) and the wrong vent pipe to check. b. he had probably succeeded in unknowingly dislodging the (3in) bladder the night before which had been mostly impeding the drainage of the shower drain in the master bath. c. this bladder had flowed/dropped down into the main basement drain pipe and become wedged in the 3 inch main pipe, but still several yards in from the septic tank. d. running the upstairs water had merely filled up the empty downstairs pipe network, and that's why we all thought we had the problem solved at that point. (we just figured that that one inch missing bladder - wherever it was - was not part of the problem.) e. later that evening when many people were taking showers, cooking, flushing the toilet a lot... this amount of greatly above average water usage had filled the lower house piping network, and the bladder (now in the lower house main pipe) was blocking the main 3 inch basement pipe almost completely, and hence the downstairs backup. (had it been a one inch bladder, that would not have blocked the 3 inch main pipe, and since we thought the missing bladder was only one inch in diameter, it did not occur to anyone that this could be the problem, which in hindsight IT TURNED OUT TO BE (because it was in actuality a 3 inch bladder and not one inch as we had told Pete). Pete of Byrd Plumbing had spent nearly four hours that second day in resolving an issue that was totally unexpected. The main point: HE FOUND AND REMEDIED A VERY DIFFICULT ISSUE and "here's the kicker:" Byrd DID NOT CHARGE US for the almost four hours Pete put in resolving the changed issue the next day. That was a real surprise to us. So, it will definitely be BYRD if we have a plumbing problem in the future. And thanks again PETE for a great job, your persistence, etc. You were GREAT!

Description of Work: Thomas came to replace a bad pipe.

Description of Work: Replaced malfunctioning thermostat in water and replaced pressure valve, damage resulting from malfunctioning thermostat.