Sun Drywall & Painting, Inc.

Sun Drywall did great work! We are very happy with Oscar and his team. They repaired our drywall ceiling twice (two different plumbing leaks). Professional, clean, on-time, quality job for a reasonable price! A pleasure to work with this company.

Great work! Two coats of Sherwin Williams super paint on all walls with professional taping of all ceilings and trim (which didn't need repainting). Fast and efficient, the crew started on Monday at 8 am and finished by Wednesday at around 3 pm. So very happy with work.

This is the second time I've contracted Sun Drywall and, once again, I'm very pleased with work. Excellent, clean and fast, they framed and dry walled with seaming and coating two rooms in our basement - one we are turning into a wine cellar and the other we are expanding efficient storage. Price was very reasonable, and they were able to add some additional work requested for a small additional fee - patching some other areas of home, including texturing with orange peel to match existing wall texture. Will hire in future for painting too.

VERY PROMPT,   GREAT WORK,  LEFT EVERYTHING CLEAN.  PRICE WAS REASONABLE.

The staff was friendly and worked really hard. They were very responsive to us, sadly we kept changing the scope by adding to it, they were very professional given the scope changes. Their work was really good. I will use them in the future to remove the remaining texture from the walls of my home.

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Have used Oscar and Sun Drywall for two major drywall repair jobs over several years, and this is the best quality of work I have seen. Matching texture is difficult, most do not posses the skills - it is as much an art as skill, and hard labor to boot. Oscar hires only the most hardworking and skilled guys, in my experience. This man showed up at 8 a.m. as agreed, went right to work. He spent about 2 hours laying out and taping plastic, then dove right in to removing damaged areas and worked straight through without a break for 6 more hours repairing all the damage. Got some pizza for him, but he didn't even take a lunch. It was a big job. He asked me to review the work before he cleaned up and got all the plastic and debris out to his truck. The match is perfect! Not many drywall guys have this skill level - often a really bad change in the texture where a repair was made. I did have to vacuum after the job was done, but after he worked so hard and long to give me a beautiful job, I did not mind. I rate Oscar Benitez and Sun Drywall 5 stars.... if you want professional drywall repair, this is the place.

We discovered there were a couple of things not painted with the trim work. There were no issues with scheduling.

They were great. They are professional and prompt. They did very high quality work.

It wasn't exactly the type of texture that i asked for. They came out and dry walled it. I specifically asked  for some quotes to what i had on the walls and the furniture, theirs was rougher. So i am not sure if what i have is something from a machine and they didn't have a machine. I paid more to do the whole. I had put new windows in and so where they took the frames off from the other previous windows, they drywall didn't match and so they came to block and unlock and do it right so it might look like the rest of the wall but it didn't exactly come out that way.

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I bought an Angie's List coupon on or around Sept. 24.  I expected to be contacted by the Dry Wall company, but I was not.  After  af few days, I called and left a voicemail (a few times) and sent an email to their company email - with no response.
Eventually, I was able to get a hold of Oscar, the owner(?) and main contact.  I sent him images of the problem on Oct 10 (as REQUESTED in our phone conversation), but he didn't even reply to the email until Oct. 22. - where in he asked me for my address ONLY (something that had been previously provided in the original order, the emails AND in a voicemail).  After providing the address, Oscar disappeared again and while I sent emails and made phone calls, it wasn't until early November that he could send someone out to do the work.  With each note, I expressed the urgency of the work - as the rental unit's crack grew and grew, until it finally broke and much of the ceiling collapsed - which helped my bill grow :D
Eventually, Oscar provided a quote that was completely inconsistent w/ the Angie's List deal.  Note the deal offered 3 Man Hours of work, while the quote was a full job.  In the end, he billed me $499 (rather than the $109), completed the job over two weeks because he couldn't commit workers to the job long enough to finish it.
Finally, once work was done, he began to harass me with a barrage of text messages and emails - requesting that I hurry up and send him the money.  
Honestly, I don't even want to send him a check, but I feel like I have no recourse :(

That one was good. They came and did the work and time at the price they quoted and did a good job. They did what they said they were going to do and did it on time.

They were great. There were no additional charges. They did a good job. They did a nice work.

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11/11- I purchased a coupon for 3 hours of labor from Sun Drywall for $109.00

11/13- I contacted Oscar w/Sun Drywall trying to set a time for him to estimate and do work. It took a week and no appt time was confirmed. See attached email communications. Oscar never provided his cell phone number.

11/20- I emailed Oscar to find out if he was coming since he never gave me a time. He showed up at 11:30 to look at the job. Oscar said he would email an estimate Wednesday night and that someone would be at my house between 7:30 and 8:00 on Thursday morning to start the work. I specifically asked him to include in the bid the cost of replacing a base board that had been broken. He was also supposed to replace the insulation that had been removed by the fireman.

11/21-8:15 am and no one has shown up or called. I finally had Oscars cell # so I text Oscar for a status. He says that he is at Home Depot buying supplies. He says that I have to approve the bid amount before he can come and start work . I pulled up the bid and it was for $450 which seemed high since I had already paid for 3 hours of labor. I told Oscar this and he said that the coupon did not apply to this job????? He said he would reduce the price to $350. I asked him to break down the estimate into labor hours and material cost and he did not reply. He called to ask if the estimate was ok. At this point, we had been going back and forth for over a week and I just wanted the work done so I said ok. He finally showed up at my house at 10:15. Oscar and another young man were in my garage for appox. 2 hours. I did not watch them work because it was very cold. They told me when they were leaving and said that someone would be back the next day to apply drywall mud. After they left, I reviewed the work that had been done and was surprised at how sloppy it looked. The holes that were being repaired were covered but not neatly and in many places there were areas where there were 2 inch gaps between the old and new dry wall. The old drywall had not been cut so that the new drywall could be evenly fitted into the spaces. My husband and I could have done the job in that amount of time and had the new drywall fitting much better.

11/22 4:00 pm Oscar shows up to apply drywall mud. He works in my garage for approx.. 1 hour. When he is finished, he asks for payment and says we should be able to paint over the mud once it is dry and it will look fine. I ask about the baseboard and he says that he didn?t buy one but he could fix it for another $50. Out of frustration, I give him a check and allow him to leave. I wish now that my husband had been home to review the work before I paid Oscar. The drywall mud is applied thickly and has application streaks thru it, it is not smooth like the rest of the garage walls. The work appears very messy and hurried and due to the thickness and cold temperatures, many areas developed deep cracks. I am now very concerned about the insulation, wondering if it was replaced or not??

11/25- I email Oscar asking him for a receipt showing the cost of materials he used including the type of insulation that he purchased. I told him I needed a specific invoice breaking down cost of labor and materials so that I could submit the invoice to my insurance company or reimbursement. I also told him about the cracks. Oscar replies that he can fix the cracks but that he cannot give me a receipt for materials because he used materials out of his workshop but says he will send me an invoice. I wonder what he bought at Home Depot? I email Oscar again telling him that we are very unhappy with his work but to please submit an invoice.

11/26 Oscar emails to say that he and his crew are now on Thanksgiving vacation and he will get back to me on Monday. This man is a joke, unprofessional, irresponsible and does crappy work. I have received estimates from 3 other contractors since joining Angie?s List a month ago and all of them have been wonderful with the exception of this man. He should NOT be on your referral list. We wasted $109 plus $350 having work done that we are totally unhappy with and even thinking about ripping out and having redone properly. I am VERY disappointed that he is someone that would be associated with the service that you are supposed to be providing.

I selected this company because the price was great, reviews are good, good BBB rating and Oscar seemed like he could get the job done no problem.  First thing was a delay because other job was taking longer, a little annoying but not a big deal.  We decided to have popcorn removed from the ceilings as an add on - again good price. 
Oscar did not accurately tell the first guy who was hanging drywall what needed to be done, so this guy got upset as I was showing him other areas of the house that were to be repaired and finally left without finishing his job.  It wasn't that big of a deal though, the finishers could take care of the small patches that the hanger didn't get to.
finishers were great, they did a good job.
Oscar told me he was done on the 24th of September - I was not at the property that day and was going out of town the next morning.  I drove to the property to check the work and there were some items that were not done.  I couldn't really check the entire house because I didn't have lighting in all of the rooms and it was dark.  I called or texted Oscar about items that were not done and he assured me that they would be done before I got back into town and could I please pay him because it would really help him out.  I thought that the rest of the job went pretty well and I trusted that he would get the other items done before I got back in town, so I left him a check - that was a mistake!  When I got back in town the items were still not done.  It took over 3 weeks for him to send somebody and that was after many times of somebody supposedly coming who never showed up.  In the end, he still never had an access to the attic cut out or had a repair in the laundry room done.  There were also a few small items that I would have had him fix or do better that I ended up doing myself or paying a painter to do prior to painting.
I liked his prices and his work was good to fair.  I would have hired him again for future projects and maybe painting as well, but this was very frustrating that he put me on the back back back back burner after I did him a favor and paid before the work was completed.

We were adding a built in entertainment center centered around our fireplace on a wall in our family room.  We were doing the project ourselves when it was decided that a large event would be held at our house in 3 weeks. Knowing we couldn't complete the project in time be ourselves we called  Sun drywall for help.  We called on Thurs or Fri to schedule the job and Jorge came out on Sat. He worked 13 hours that day then came back Sunday morning which was fathers day for 5 hours to finish the job. The work was quality and the area was left clean. Will definetly use again

He initially came out and checked out the work, then never got back to my tenants about doing the actual installation. When my tenant called the company, he didnt remember coming to check it out. Finally about 3 weeks after the initial check he completed the work. The quality was fine it was getting him out there to complete it that was the problem!

Oscar and Sun Drywall were the first provider to respond back to my Angie's list work request. I called him and setup an appt for 3 days later for around noon. I called him around 12:30 when no one had showed up and he said Jorge would be out around 1:30. He showed up then and got right to work and did a great job. He was professional and nice. At this price (lower than anyone else and no one else seemed to wanted to bid on this small job) I couldn't be happer.

On the first visit (Sept 26th) they installed the sheetrock. However, they installed the rock such the gap at the bottom varied from 1/5" to 3" versus the 3" specification. Also the cut-outs around electrical outlets were too big and therefore did not support the outlet tabs. I called Oscar (owner of Sun Drywall) to share my concerns, tell them I trimmed the bottom to match the spec, and ask they pay closer attention during the mud and texture.

On the second visit they taped and mudded the seams and tried to repair the over-sized holes. They also textured in the same visit but without first sanding/blending the underlying mud layers and that resulted in a highly visible patch job. I contacted Sun Drywall and let them know I was unhappy with the visible patch: the replicated the texture well but it did not conceal the seam.

To speed the flood-repair process, I properly sanded down the texture and the underlying mud and asked Sun Drywall to come back to better fix around the outlets and re-texture. They came back without argument, though I felt a little bit of could-shoulder from one of the workers.   They sanded the seam a little further and retextured. They asked me to look at the texture and told me it would blend better once painted. 

After the texture was dry, I could see that the texture did not match nearly as well as the first time. Once I painted a portion of the wall it made the issue more visible not less visible. Additionally their attempted repair around the outlets resulted in packing too much mud into the junction boxes and burying part of the outlet such that it could no longer be maintained or adjusted to the appropriate depth. Wouldn't it have been easier to just install the rock properly the first time? They also scrapped the window sill, probably while climbing in and out of the window. I feel it was unintentional, however its another fix I had to do.

At that point I decided to redo the work myself rather than requests them to come back a fourth time. I felt three attempts to get this right was enough and had some fear of retaliation. Mostly, I needed to get this done and let subsequent phases of repair progress so we could move back in.

To his credit, Oscar contacted me to ask how everything turned out on October 17th. I replied with my dissatisfaction, shared photos of the problem areas, and asked him to do a better job on the friends house to which I referred him. On October 23rd he replied saying he understood I was disappointed, asked me to not refer him further and offered that it was okay if I did not want to pay.

I slept on his offer for a couple days, then responded to thank him for his reply, agreed that I should not have to pay for the work. I offered to pay for the material portion which I estimated to be around $100.00. That night he responded that my offer was not fair and $100.00 dollars for materials was ridiculous.

I then reiterated my offer to pay him $100.00 for materials. His most recent reply is  that I was being ?abusive? and that he would ?get the money in a legal way?. I want to be clear I do not feel Sun Dryall is a predatory business and I have seen their work look good at a friend?s house. I hope it simply a case of too much demand given the recent floods (my neighbors also experienced fast work and lacking quality from Sun Drywall).

In my mind the most concerning part is that he offered for me to not pay and then later is threatening me with collection through legal ways.

Oscar came by and quoted the mudding work for my basement bedroom.  He was the lowest quote so I went with him.  After a few calls to ask me to delay the start date for work due to other jobs that were taking longer than he expected he brought one of his workers by to start the job.  The job took 3 days of people coming and going (the same man twice over two days, then a third on the last day to spray texture).  They were not as professional as other companies I have used (they put nothing down between the front door and the work site, so I ended up with dusty footprints and drywall debris in my places than I would have wanted), but they did a fairly good job and were the lowest priced, which I am willing to sacrifice a few niceties for.  Got what I paid for and I'm happy with the work.  Would use again.

Oscar, the president of the company, came and did the job himself, due to his employee had a family emergency that was assigned to this job. He did a wonderful job and cleaned up after.

I just didn't feel like they paid attention to detail.

He said he had made it level with all the drywall. I didn't think so but he insisted it was flat and I was seeing shadow









He said it will be flat when it dries and you paint it.  Week later it still looks like a 5inch wide ridge over the tap







 After painting the area it looks perfect. Great job.