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Murphy's Fireplace & Stove Inc. was started in 2000 when Paul Sanders saw there was a need for a certified and fully trained chimney service company in the Willamette Valley area. You never have to worry if the person that is entering your home and servicing your vent system or repairing your fireplace is trained and certified, because we guarantee it! Murphy's never uses subcontractors for our projects and is able to handle all of your home & hearth needs. Satisfaction Guaranteed CCB: 206435

"The job was to clean and provide necessary maintenance on a Weber Genesis E-10 natural gas BBQ. Price was reasonable and Kevin was knew the BBQ."

"It went fine. The chimney had become encrusted with moss and there were cracks in the cement on the crown. Also the flashing was rusting. Ryan ground off the old crown cement, applied new cement, pressure washed the chimney, installed new counter flashing and water seal. Now the chimney looks like new."

"Carlos and crew did a fabulous job on installing a paver patio and sitting wall surrounding it! We had 4 bids that were very comparable, but Aspen Lawn did the best job of communicating and was able to get the job done quickly. His crew arrived promptly, was very hard working, and did a great job of cleaning up at the end of the day. Our job was relatively small - 12â x 16â , but they it done in 2 1/2 days! I would definitely use this company again and will recommend them to others!"

"Forest Landscape completely redid our backyard. They provided great suggestions for new landscaping and completely renovated our backyard. They provided a bid that was competitive with other landscapers. They are excellent at coming up with solutions for achieving what you would like to have done. Once plans were in place, they moved fast and would have completed the entire project quickly if it had not been for a delay caused by another contractor. They were very responsive to changes we made along the way, providing updates and clear estimates of what those changes would cost. The end product was great- they did a fantastic job on everything: stamped concrete, retaining wall, stone paths, irrigation system, lighting, planting, and putting down new sod. We are very pleased with the work they did. They followed up to make sure everything was working properly and completed to our satisfaction. We would highly recommend."

"We bought a new construction home and the backyard was just a big area of bark chips. We were looking to extend our concrete patio, put in grass or turf and a few planter boxes on the side. Joe Fisher gave us a competitive estimate for our project. We also had some other landscaping companies come out for bids, but we went with Western Paver Design because they are contractors, not just landscapers, and we got a good feeling that they would give us a beautiful backyard that we would love. They absolutely came through. Darwin and his crew worked for less than a week to transform the yard. They added a beautifully paved patio to our existing concrete patio, doubling the space. They installed a big swath of turf which looks very realistic and feels very soft. And in our side yard they created a beautiful dry river bed with varying-sized rocks, built three planter boxes, and planted a gorgeous maple tree and some bushes. Joe and Darwin were in regular communication with us to make sure the project turned out as desired. The crew took a panel out of our fence to have easy access to our yard and they put it back in and cleaned up everything when they were done. We couldn’t be happier."

"my 55 year old chimney was crumbling. Bernards masons were very skilled and meticulous in restoring the chimney. They were also personable and very hard working. I highly recommend Bernards for brick work."

"Excellent job! Very happyvwith he quality and timeliness. I will hire again!"

"I hired System Pavers to replace my back lawn with a paver patio, including a gas fire pit and walkway. I couldnâ t be happier with the result. They were very professional, transparent, and easy to work with. Communication was very good throughout the process - any time a design decision or issue came up during the installation, they would reach out to me for input or confirmation, which I greatly appreciated. At one point during the installation, I sent a few questions to the project manager (Austin) via email at around 8pm on a Friday, not expecting to hear back until Monday. Austin called me within two minutes of sending the email! Thanks again to him and the hard working crew for their attention to detail and timely completion of the job. Highly recommended"

"The work went OK.  Several of the tasks were sub-let to other contractors — this was reasonable because removing the original mix of builder's rubble, clay and weeds and bringing in soil meant getting some big digging machinery into my back garden, and most landscapers don't have such machinery themselves.  Another example was the final addition of bark mulch, which was sub-ed to a company with a mulch blower.  The problems came because there was little supervision of the subs, so the man with the big digger broke a lot a pavers at the front of the house (which were not scheduled to be replaced) when he drove the digger over them, and the man with the mulch blower buried the bottom of my wooden fence.

My original expectation, which was that Burrell would carefully attend to all of the details, turned out to be wrong.  If I noticed and pointed out a shortcoming, Burrell would eventually fix, it, somewhat reluctantly.  For example, the initial Scope of Work required him to "Till and amend soil in future side yard planting areas" (plantings in the side yards were not included in the project). When we later went to add plants in these areas, we found that the soil had not been amended or tilled, but just covered with mulch.  Burrell did correct this, but only after we insisted.

At the end of the first winter, quite a number of the plants had died.  This may just be because it was a very hard winter, and because the plants were not installed until October and so did not have much time to get established before the bad weather.   In June Burrell and a small crew came back to replace the dead plants — a one year guarantee was part of the original contract. Some of the replacements were dead within four days; I'm still waiting for them to be replaced a second time.  

Overall, the garden looks good.   Some of the plants are thriving, and I'm enjoying using it this summer.  The patio, in particular, looks very good, and I have recommended Burrell to friends who have admired it.  However, every time I go out to do some work, I'm annoyed by something that wasn't done quite right.  Little things, mostly, which I can often fix myself, but which I don't feel I should have to fix, given the money that I spent on this project. Examples are correcting the grading around a pre-exitsting tree so that it isn't buried too deep, gluing down loose capstones, and un-burrying the fence.  I'm also concerned about the long-term durability of some of the hardscaping; one of the flagstones on the patio has cracked, and one side of the path at the East side of the house is now several inches lower than the other side; both of these point to insufficient excavation and compacting of the new sub-grade material.  

I'm amending this review because after he read it, Burrell 'phoned me to complain that I hadn't been fair to him, because I had mentioned shortcomings but not the good parts.  He had a good point there, and I've added more positive comments.  He was also upset because I mentioned problems that he fixed after I pointed them out.   I think that whether or not I've been fair on t his point depends on whose responsibility you think it is to supervise the work of the subcontractors and ensure quality: the homeowner or the contractor.  We clearly have a difference of opinion on this which I don't think will be resolved.      

Update (Sept 2012) after two years:  there were serious subsidence problems with a path at one side of the house. One side of the path had sunk about 4 inches relative to the other side, and the surface (compacted 1/4" minus gravel) was loose.   Burrell agreed to add more gravel and re-compact the path, even though he said that the work was out of warranty.  I also asked him to re-set a fence panel that had shifted;  I paid him for this, since the panel had originally been set by another contractor.   ProScape came and performed this work while I was out of town, and it seems to have been taken care of in a professional manner."