John Giannattasio Electrical

Excellent Five stars Efficient and fairly priced

Unqualified technicians, called back 4 times had to hire a real electrician, gold medal tech's big mistake, which could have burned down my house do not use this company. had two technician's Jim and Juan. Jim not only cut up my wall but patched it up with duct tape, cut my sprinkler zone cable and then also mis-wired my well pump he put a 220 volt lead into the 110 neutral block causing a dead short, original tech Jim was dispatched twice because of the sprinklers and Juan once, Juan wanted to replace the entire sprinkler 220 line for 1284 dollars in addition saying it wasn't their fault, when it was very much their fault, original job was 3102 dollars and it didn't even properly fix the original issue of our electric base board heaters working properly, one of the heaters still doesn't work and an estimate was given to us of 850 dollars for one heater. We hired gold medal because of their availability, they screwed up the permitting process as well they did not file the permits properly or even paid for in in a timely manor, had to have their permit manager escorted by the local PD just to file the permits and then again to pay for it, Very bad Job. Will not recommend the job, nor will we use them again. myself and my tenant living in the home advised my mother no shop around because that was a lot, my mom bought Jim's sales pitch and I'm very upset with her on that. My mother has been known to take other peoples bad advice when good advice has been given to her, I have been a victim of that myself. if you want to see the video, I'm going to upload it somewhere where I have enough space probably google drive. Jim was dispatched for the original call on Nov 19, 2016 and then to do the job on Nov 22, 2016, permits needed to be filed by December 7th 2016, permits finally filed on December 16, approved on December 19th, paid for on Jan 9, inspected on Feb 8, first call back was on Jan 5 because of the heaters second call back was on April 8 for the sprinklers third on April 22 for the sprinklers, and Finally again on May 2 for the sprinklers. we finally hired a local guy Peter who didn't actually get the job but looked at it on May 8 but said he had a two week back log, because his father was in the hospital and dying, eventually that two weeks turned into a month, and finally on June 12 he was given an ultimatum to get the job done, We hired John Gianttasio of Giantassio Electric to finally get the job done on Jun 20, and we found the mis wiring, we had to pay 265 dollars to John to fix the problem. We know that we paid 2 to 3 times as much as much as we should have, with the idea that the convenience comes with a price which was fine for me and my mother we need it done and rapidly because of the winter and it was the heat, the convenience we though we got was a rather inconvenience as I had to take 6 extra days off to have them look at the electric panel 4 times once for an estimate with Peter and finally with what we thought would also be an estimate with John Gianattasio he actually surprised us and got it done in less than 2 hours he actually arrived late. I had a bad vibe about Jim I didn't like the guy, and I felt he wasn't qualified Boy was I right, I called him out on the day he did the job on Nov 22, he didn't like it much being a licensed electrician myself, but with the restriction of my mother not wanting me to do the work myself because it is our rental nor do I have the patience to replace a breaker box, I do know how to do the work, he did not like me one bit when I was trying to see what he was doing. My mother was telling me to sit down and relax, I should have listen to my gut instead of my mother, since my mother has had a history of poor decision making in the last 18 years. Both myself and the tenant told my mother to shop around rather than go with that really high estimate, i took a total of 8 days off for this mess and at 5k a day I lost 40k in wages for this. Convenience what ever. both Jim and Juan both said they have 25 years with Gold Medal, I asked to see Juan's certificate of code compliance he and Gold Medal Refused. Requested some one other than Jim 3 times, got Jim twice out of those 3 requests. Horrible experience got the mistake on video, suing the company for repeated lost wages. and going after their licenses and insurances. Also going after the building inspector who approved it with the mistake. Sorry Gary you may be my friend but I gotta nail you on this one. John got my sprinklers back on. and with less work and cost than expected. Buenito John Gractis

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