TIM BOTSFORD CONSTRUCTION

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Remodel went very well. I am somewhat indecisive and Tim was very helpful in offering inexpensive, creative solutions to design challenges. I added several small tasks to the job and he cheerfully completed them with minimal extra charges.

TIM CAME OVER IMMEDIATELY, WAS WORKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND LIKE A DETECTIVE, STARTED WORKING FROM SCRATCH, EXAMINING MY CIRCUIT BOX CAREFULLY, FINDING A WORN OUT ONE MISSED BY ALL OTHERS, AND ONE NOT LABELED HE ASKED ME ABOUT, (THE ONLY ONE AGAIN TO DO SO), AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE CIRCUIT WAS FOR.

TIM TOOK HOURS TO DO ALL THIS. HE WENT TO THE MICROWAVE TO CHECK THE SOCKET, CIRCUIT WHERE IT WAS PLUGGED IN, THEN, KNOWING HOW THESE HOUSES ARE BUILT, WITH THESE PLUGS IN THE CUPBOARD ABOVE, HE CHECKED THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CUPBOARD, WHERE I KNEW THERE WAS ANOTHER SOCKET THOUGH ALL PREVIOUS ELECTRICIANS, THE MICROWAVE REPAIR MAN, JUST IGNORED THESE OTHER PLUGS.

SURE ENOUGH, TIM LAUGHED AND SAID THIS OTHER SOCKET WAS THE SEPARATE CIRCUIT, THE UNMARKED ONE IN MY CIRCUIT BOX, THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE MICROWAVE, AND PLUGGED IT IN THE CORRECT SOCKET, SAVING ME OVER $300.00 THE OTHERS WANTED TO CHARGE ME TO PUT THIS CIRCUIT IN AGAIN! I WOULD HAVE PAID AT THE LEAST, OVER $300.00 TO HAVE A REDUNDANT, UNNECESSARY, CIRCUIT FOR THIS MICROWAVE TO BE INSTALLED, THAT I ALREADY HAD, THOUGH THIS CIRCUIT, VISIBLE IN MY ELECTRICAL BOX, WAS JUST NOT LABELED. AND I WOULD HAVE HAD A WORN OUT CIRCUIT PART LEFT IN, NOTED AND REPLACED THE SAME DAY, BY TIM, NOT BY THE OTHERS. AND VERY WELL MAY HAVE SIGNED UP TO HAVE NEW HEATING INSTALLED WITH A HUGE HEATING/ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, (WHICH TIM ALSO OBVIOUSLY DOES WITH GREAT CONSCIENTIOUS SKILL), THAT I DID NOT NEED, HE TOLD ME MY HEAT WAS BROKEN AS HAD A HANDYMAN, THE SUPPOSED GENERAL CONTRACTOR INSPECTOR. i WOULD HAVE SPENT FROM $800.00-$3 K PER THE HUGE ELECTRICAL, HEATING, ELECTRICIAN, TO HAVE EVERY SOCKET IN MY HOUSE REPLACED, (EVEN ALL THE NEW ONES), THE UNNEEDED CIRCUIT INSTALLED, (ALREADY HAD IT), NOT EVEN COUN TING THE THOUSANDS TO HAVE NEW HEAT INSTALLLED, SAVED FROM BY TIME BOTSFORD.

AFTER REPLACING MY HOME, PATIO ROOF, REDESINGING THE SLOPE OF, INSTALLING A HUGE SKYLIGHT, FOR THE LOWEST BID PRICE, IN LESS THAN THE 2 WEEK DEADLINE, NEATLY, CONSIDERATELY, WITH TIM, (UNLIKE MOST GENERAL CONTRACTORS), HERE DAILY WORKING WITH HIS CREW IN AUGUST HEAT, I CALLED TIM IN A PANIC WANTING TO KNOW IF HE KNEW AN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR I COULD USE FOR THIS ELECTRICAL PROBLEM. TO WHICH, AS WRITTEN BEFORE, HE LAUGHED, SAID HE DID THIS KIND OF WORK, AND CAN OVER IMMEDIATELY, FIXING ALL THAT THE PREVIOUS ELECTRICIANS MISSED.

AFTER HE FOUND, REPAIRED, MY CIRCUIT BLOWING, MICROWAVE HAZARD, CAUSED BY AN UNQUALIFIED, LYING, and quot;HANDYMANand quot;, REFERRED TO ME BY THE INSPECTOR NO LESS WHO ALSO MISSED SO MUCH, TIM WAS and quot;INTRIGUEDand quot; BY MY SUPPOSEDLY and quot;BROKEN HEATERand quot;, (ADVISED TO HAVE REPLACED FOR 3 k BY HUGE ELECTRICAL/HEATING CONTRACTOR, TIM IS AS WELL OF COURSE).

SO TIM WENT THROUGH MY and quot;MICROWAVEand quot; CIRCUIT BLOWING PROBLEM, THE MICROWAVE CIRCUIT ALREADY INSTALLED, WITH THE DANGEROUS HANDYMAN NOT PLUGGING INTO THE RIGHT SOCKET, MAKING IT VERY HAZARDOUS FROM THE INITIAL INSTALLATION! ALL MISSED BY THE 3 PREVIOUS ELECTRICIANS, OTHERS. TELLING ME TO SPEND THOUSANDS WITH THEM, URGING ME TO SIGN THEIR CONTRACTS FOR THIS.

TIM THEN WENT THRU, LIKE THE DETECTIVE HE IS, MY WHOLE HOUSE, TO INVESTIGATE MY SUPPOSEDLY and quot;BROKENand quot; CEILING, RADIENT HEAT. THIS WAS ALSO NECESSARY AS I NEEDED TO HAVE MORE LIGHHTING INSTALLED, POT LIGHTS I HOPED, TIM DID TOO, (ONE ELCTRICIAN SAID HE WOULD JUST INSTALL, NO OTHER QUESTIONS ASKED), AND KNEW, INFORMED ME, THAT INSTALLING POT LIGHTS COULD WELL BREAK THE WORKING HEAT IN BEDROOMS, IN CEILING, AND IN THE LIVING ROOM IF THE HEAT WAS NOT BROKEN AS I WAS TOLD BY MANY LICENSED PROFESSIONALS. ONLY TIM EVEN BOTHERED TO QUESTION IF MY HEAT WAS REALLY BROKEN, AND BEGAN HIS TESTING, INSPECTIONS THROUGHOUT MY HOUSE TO DETERMINE, (NOBODY ELSE HAD).

AFTER AT LEAST 4 HOURS, ON MOMENT'S NOTICE NO LESS, OF TIM'S FIXING MY MICROWAVE PROBLEM, A WORN OUT CIRCUIT REPLACED, DETECTED, THEN HIS INSPECTION, TESTING, OF MY HEATING SYSTEM, (and quot;BROKENand quot;PER ALL OTHERS, JUST REPACE FOR 3 K), HE FOUND AGAIN, RIDICULOUS INCOMPETENTCY BY THESE OTHERS.

TIM SHOWED ME, (AS HE DOES EVERYTHING, LIKE A GREAT TEACHER, EXPLAINING ALL IN DETAIL, LAYMAN'S TERMS FOR ALL REPAIRS, CONSTRUCTION), HOW ACTTUALLY MY HEATING WIRES WERE JUST TIED OFF IN THE BOX!!! RIGHT THERE IN THE THERMOSTAT BOX, AS ALL THE ELECTRICIANS SAW! AS TIME KNEW DUE TO HIS VAST EXPERIENCE, THAT MANY PEOPLE HERE TURN OFF THEIR RADIENT HEAT TO SAVE ON HIGH ELECTRIC BILLS, WHICH WAS THE CASE HERE WITH THE WIRING JUST BLOCKED OFF!
HE REWIRED THESE AND VOILA, THE HEAT WAS WORKING AFTER OVER A YEAR OF MY BEING HERE THINKING IT WAS and quot;BROKENand quot; AS SO MANY HAD TOLD ME, MOST INCORRECTLY, EVEN BY OTHER SUPPOSED HEATING/ELECTRICAL EXPERTS, (PERHAPS EVEN ON ANGIE'S LIST? I WILL CHECK).

AMAZED AT TIM'S TALENT, ABILITY, I OF COURSE SIGNED UP FOR HIM TO PUT IN ADDITIONAL NEEDED LIGHTING, DUE TO HIS FINDINGS, UNABLE TO HAVE THE POT LIGHT I WANTED, OR WOULD HAVE RUINED THE HEAT! HE INSTALLED MANY SETS OF TRACK LIGHTS AT THE TOP OF WALLS, GIVING A DRAMACTIC, GREAT APPEARING, SO USEFUL EFFECT, WITH THE DIMMERS ALL. AND UPON HIS ANALYISIS OF MY ELECTRICAL OVERLOAD IN THIS OLDER HOUSE, (AS MOST ARE HERE WITH THE ADVENT OF COMPUTERS, SO MUCH MORE ELECTRICAL DEMAND), HE RECOMMENDED INSTALLING A SEPERATE CIRCUIT FOR MY AIR CONDITIONER, TOO, AND WAS INSTALLED AS WELL. THIS ALL IN 2 DAYS, ONE TO REPAIR THE MICROWAVE, INVESTIGATE, REPAIR, HEATER, THE ENXT TO INSTALL THE LIGHTING, AND EXTRA CIRCUIT. AGAIN, WITH TIM'S LOVE OF A CHALLENGE, HE DID MOST OF THE WORK WITH ONE HELPER, HAVING TO MAKE AND PATCH UP HOLES IN WALLS, WORK IN ATTIC, BEASTLEY IN FACT, BUT DONE TO PERFECTION!

OBVIOUSLY TIM SAVED ME THOUSANDS, AND SAVED ME, MY HOUSE, FROM VERY SERIOUS ELECTRICAL HAZARDS CAUSED BY AN UNQUALIFIED, DISHONEST, HANDYMAN A YEAR PRIOR!

I ONLY HOPE THAT TIM IS AVAILABLE TO REDO MY KITCHEN SOON. HE ONLY HAS WORD OF MOUTH ADVERTISING, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND HOPE THAT ANGIE'S LIST READERS ARE AS FORTUNATE AS I HAVE BEEN BY HAVING TIM DO ANY WORK THEY NEED DONE, SURELY WORTH ANY WAIT, (UNLIKE MY SO CALLED 'EMERGENCY OF THIS YEAR, BY ANOTHER HORRIBLE CONTRACTOR PERMANENTLY INJURING MY SPINAL CORD, MORE!). HE WILL LIKELY BE THE MOST REASONABLE, (THOUGH WORTH MUCH MORE), WILL FINISH ON TIME, BE THERE FOR THE WORK, AND WILL TREAT YOUR HOME AS IF IT WERE HIS OWN. TIM'S HERO IS THE MAN, and quot;HOLMES ON HOLMESand quot;, ON and quot;HGTVand quot; , (HOME AND GARDEN TV), WHO RESCUES PEOPLE IS DIRE STRAIGHTS FROM UNSCRUPULOUS CONTRACTORS. TIM BOTSFORD IS THE and quot;HOLMESand quot; OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY!