Chicago Shower Door Installation

Wonderful! Kurt came on time and got right to work, beyond the request in the order. He did a beautiful job on the shower (it was a mess) and installed the new door. He was honest, exacting, and very competent. I was very impressed. It was worth every penny to have the job so well done.

John is very kind, prompt and responsive. I was very please with his work. Before hiring him he did give a list of about 15 reference in which I called 3 of them. All of them came out good. I was so please with his service that I am hiring him to remove wall paper and paint the MB also paint the upper hall ceiling and do patching/repair and paint the laundry room

David did a very good job with my list of chores that had piled up over the past year. The only reason he gets a B for price is that there are some providers that may be cheaper, but as they say, you get what you pay for.

He was prompt, professional, and did an excellent job with all the projects. Projects were completed quickly. When we had concerns about the shower door, he returned the next day and fixed it. His costs were reasonable. Our experience is that he was trustworthy and did quality work. We would use him again and highly recommend him.

Got a big deal from Angies List. Called Ibro right after his trip back from Europe. He volunteered to come out the 2nd day. Despite heavy rain he showed up 7:30 in the morning, helped install shower door, fixed faucet, window cranks, and some other things. Cleaned up things well before he left, will definitely use them again.

The overall job was fine. My original intent was to replace the shower doors and apply a decorative band of blue glass tile. I had to be at work that day so my husband stayed home. The handyman told my husband that we did not need new shower doors (we did! they kept coming off the track) and that the blue tile would like too unusual (they were cool!). So , he sent my husband out to find matching white tile (which he could not). The white tile that he installed didn't match the original anyway. The quality of the work was great. The worker Nick sent just didn't listen. I didn't use them again.

I hired them to install shower doors, hang four flower boxes with eight ledges. Two workers came out, on time, ready to go. They installed the shower doors, making sure to ask just how I wanted which door to slide. Flower boxes were up on second level of house. I could not find 2 flower boxes the right length, so these guys had to put up 4. Got spacing right, compliments from the neighbors. They did a few odds and end jobs as well. Polite, careful not to make a mess and cleaned up after themselves.

My experience overall has went excellently. He can do just about everything. He has a string network of people he can reference. The pricing is very reasonable. I have been very pleased with the work done. I would highly recommend Dave to others.

The shower door was installed poorly initially by someone else. The shower door was shifting on the screws - sometimes not latching (swinging both ways), other times, catching and trapping my tenants in the shower! Tom came out on time and promptly diagnosed the problem. He took the shower door off, recaulked and reinstalled the door with new screws so that it would not continue to shift back and forth. The tenants are thrilled to have a beautifully working shower door.

Ken provided a very thorough and accurate estimate. It was the most thorough estimate I have ever received from a contractor and I really appreciated that. Most of the time I get something very vague from others. He went way above and beyond the service level I expected. He even went with me to multiple stores to help me pick out the material I would want in my bathroom (and, no, he did not charge me for that)! He was very knowledgeable when I asked him for advice. Ken scheduled and completed the work right away. He did a great job. The shower doors look great. He cleaned up after himself and it looked like he was never there after he left. I would definitely hire him again as I complete the next phases of my bathroom. The deck that he refinished also looks amazing.

When Mark takes on a project he cares about how it looks. He is proud of his work and wants the homeowner to be satisfied. Mark really puts in the extra effort. When he put in the wall tiles he would turn them around and look at them and use extra sheets of paper (beyond the spacers) to get them to setup just right. Mark comes in an gets to work. He cleans up after himself as he works (I could hear him running the shopvac and using the broom as he went along. He is very careful about keeping your house clean, putting down plastic, tarps, and crate paper to keep your house clean. His tools are good quality and in nice shape. His van has different tools which he uses during the day. These are lots of little things which I would not have thought about when hiring someone to work on my house. But when you add them up they made (in my mind) a big difference. The other thing I liked about Mark is he did the work himself. He sometimes has a helper who works with him. But Mark is responsible for the work. The reason I think this is important is because he has a vision and understands how the complete project will look. He also has a sense of ownership on the entire project. I have tried to use a general and sub-contractors in the past. But my experience is the general needs to carefully supervise the subs. Otherwise the subs do not always know how all of the pieces of the project works together. In the past I hired a general who was not there all day long, and the subs would make mistakes impacting the entire project. I hope Mark will help me with additional projects in the future.

Tony was courteous and professional. He communicated everything clearly, and we would happily hire him again.

I hired Sam for two different projects. The first was in my master shower where there was water leaking from uneven granite that had been there for years. I had asked several other services if they could fix it and they all walked away. Sam told me exactly what needed to be done and also connected me with other reputable contractors i.e. new shower door, new granite. to help complete the project. Looks beautiful and best thing no leaks. The second project was a drywall and repainting project. I needed my laundry closet expanded as my washing machine broke, and all the newer models were larger than my closet. Sam and team completed the expansion in one day as well as new drywall and paint. Excellent job and very trustworthy. Would highly recommend.

One of my favorite things about this company is the service. John called me the night before to confirm his arrival the next day. He was on time, friendly and really efficient with his time. Linda was helpful in setting up the appt. initially and did a follow-up call to see how the job went. I can't say enough good things about this company though my one caveat is cost. I don't begrudge them their time/labor costs but I have access to our building's maintenance person who works at a lower per hour rate. Still, I want a professional for certain jobs and know I'm getting quality work with Handyman Matters service people so it's well worth the expenditure. To be fair, I didn't request an estimate.

I am re-posting this review, since it seems to strangely have "disappeared," along with the pictures that show the misaligned shower doors, the glaze defect in tiles that were installed and grout smears on tile that were never removed. We never had follow up response from Mike regarding multiple emails and phone messages to correct the final and obvious problems he promised he would take care of. I visited the store manager, whose depart manager gave us the referral and told him about the unsatisfactory work showed him pictures of what had been done. We finally contacted another contractor to correct problems for another $200 and I spent many hours cleaning off the grout haze in the shower stall, washing our hardwood floors and scraping paint specks off of the hall bath granite counter and faucet. Most of this extra cleanup they left for us could have been avoided by taking the necessary professional precautions of covering and setting up the work site prior to starting the job task. The job cost of Mike’s service does not include many supplies we bought directly from stores. When added together, his price was not better than other more experienced bathroom remodelers. He never did get a signed & dated final contract to us for this service, although he made several attempts to create one and we proceeded with the project with the understanding that the unsigned contract was what was understood for the scope and timeline of the project. (Our mistake!) I would not use him again, nor recommend him. Original below (5/9/2017): I regret the need to post this comment about the service we received, however, it seems our calls and emails to resolve this have been ignored. We hired this contractor to renovate both our front and back bathrooms. For the front bathroom, the major tasks were installing a new porcelain tile floor, new wood trim, shower finish plumbing and painting the bathroom. The back bathroom involved these three components plus removal of a shower stall, installation of a new shower base, installing drywall and tile and a new shower door. In the process of requesting bids from contractors, Mike asked us to give him a chance to show us what he could do and seemed eager to be awarded our project, which he started on March 6th. After many delays and missed days, which we accommodated, the project was actually underway. We did find Mike and his crew had difficulties showing up at the promised time and estimating the amount of time a segment of the job would take. As the project moved toward a close Mike was in a hurry at the end to finalize, clean-up and clear out his equipment on March 28. However, we told him the situation with the shower doors was unacceptable. We soon identified there was also grout smeared over some of the porcelain tile we had not identified until first using the shower. While we like the randomized tile pattern, we had not looked at every tile in the box, having worked with a sample tile. Later we discovered what we thought was just a mark on one of the tiles that could be cleaned off was in fact a noticeable defect in the glaze pattern on a tile. Unfortunately, they grouted 3 defective pattern tile into the floor of the hall bath, 1 into the floor of the master bath and 5 into the walls of the shower stall. This could have been easily avoided by showing us this tile and asking us about it before proceeding, since we had more than 3 extra boxes of tile. Getting to know Mike and his crew during the project, we had found them to be generally cooperative and hard-working. Based on these qualities and what appeared to be a heartfelt promise to return to correct and/or complete the remaining components of the project, we did give Mike his final payment on March 28. Note that it is preferred practice to withhold final payment until all of the agreed work is completed or finalized, but we trusted his word. When Mike finally returned our call regarding scheduling a follow up appointment in early April, he said there was a family illness, but he stated he would come out to fix the shower doors and he had something that could take the dried grout “right off” the tile. He also agreed to plane down the bottom of the hallway bath door due to the additional cleaning we were had to do as a result of not covering and/or protecting floors and vanities, etc., to avoid additional mess or debris while demolition or construction was underway. (Two times they dropped debris on the washer and dryer in the basement before covering them when they were demolishing the old shower base and walls.) We are forced to conclude, after the many calls and emails to Mike, that he has decided he can just ignore fixing the problems on the work, for which he was paid in full. Unfortunately, we will have to be looking for another contractor to correct the problems we are now left to fix.