OAK PARK REPAIRMAN GUIDE

A Free Service to Local Residents
Prepared and Presented by Homeowners

Your Guide to Home Repair and Contractors in Oak Park, Illinois

About This Service | To Submit a Recommendation | Recommendations by Firm | Recommendations by Trade
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Please encourage your friends to send in their recommendations. The more information available, the better we will be served and the greater will be the incentive for poor firms to upgrade their work.
-- Professor Les Golden, Oak Park Repairman Guide Administrator



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ABOUT THIS SERVICE

This service is a description of the quality of work performed by tradesmen in the Oak Park and River Forest area. When work is done on their home, homeowners are invited to submit their comments here. Work is graded as Very Satisfactory, Moderately Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory.

When a homeowner is deciding on a tradesman to hire, he can fnd that tradesman by name. When a homeowner is searching for a tradesman in a given area of home repair, he can locate tradesmen in that area.

Tradesmen who are unhappy with evaluations of their work are encouraged to Contact Us. We will then act as mediators between the tradesman and the homeowner to determine if the evaluation is justified.

 

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TO SUBMIT A RECOMMENDATION


Please provide the following in your email
mail to: oakparkrepairmanguide@yahoo.com.

1. Name of repair firm.

2. Address
3. Phone
4. Type of work done, and your level of satisfaction -- "GOOD" for Very Satisfactory, "FAIR for Moderately Satisfactory, or "POOR" for Unsatisfactory; If you wish to submit a photograph of the work, please submit it in either .jpg or .gif format.

Categories:
awnings, blacktop, bricklaying, carpentry, carpet and upholstery cleaning, concrete, curtain cleaning, electrical, fencing, foundation support, furnace and a/c, gardening and landscape, gutter, painting and plastering, plumbing, roofing, siding, tuckpointing, washers/dryers, windows and lintels, wrought iron, other

5. Your name, address, and phone. This will not be provided on-line but is needed for us to insure that you are not a contractor submitting your own evaulation, and to enable us to mediate in case a repairman feels wronged by your evaluation. You need not submit this information, but we then reserve the right not to post it.
6. Date
7. Comments

mail to: oakparkrepairmanguide@yahoo.com

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TO LOCATE RECOMMENDATIONS BY TRADE



awnings
blacktop
bricklaying
carpentry
carpet/upholstery cleaning
concrete
curtain cleaning
electrical
fencing
foundation support
furnace and a/c
gardening and landscape
gutter
painting and plastering
plunbing
roofing
siding
tuckpointing
washers/dryers
windows and lintels
wrought iron
other


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TO LOCATE RECOMMENDATIONS BY FIRM NAME




All High Work -- see
Carpentry, Tuckpointing
Callahan and Sons Plumbing -- see Plumbing
Galewood Fencing -- see Fencing
Harold Electric -- see Electrical
Oak Park Electric (Jeff DeGrazia) -- see Electrical
Andy Rafalko -- see Tuckpointing
Ronbo Fine Painting -- see Painting
Thomas Restoration Painting -- see Painting
Tobie Roofing -- see Roofing
Wesley and Sons -- see Foundation Support

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RECOMMENDATIONS BY TRADE


AWNINGS

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BLACKTOP

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BRICKLAYING

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CARPENTRY

1. 8/1/2003. All High Work. Oak Park. 445-9271
GOOD. Work done on time at estimated cost, and good quality.
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CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY CLEANING

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CONCRETE




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CURTAIN CLEANING




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ELECTRICAL

1. 8/11/03. Harold Electric. Oak Park. 386-7337
GOOD. His hourly rate is low. Very experienced. I'm somewhat handy, and the job was small, so he told me how to fix it myself and saved me the cost!!
2. 8/14/03. Jeff DeGrazia at OAK PARK ELECTRIC, INC., Oak Park, 848-1835
GOOD. Jeff did an excellent job in the work he did for us.



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FENCING

1. 7/22/2003. Galewood Fence. River Forest. 771-0830.
FAIR. Owner does all work himself. Good work, but can be a disagreeable fellow.




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FOUNDATION SUPPORT

1. Wesley and Sons. 5/17/2000
Wesley and Sons
email
Excellent work. Saved our garage from collapsing.

2. Wesley and Sons. 8/22/2002
Very satisfied. Propped up our den addition with 2 piers. Came back to check on it!





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FURNACE AND A/C




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GARDENING AND LANDSCAPE




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GUTTER

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PAINTING AND PLASTERING

1. 7/22/2003. Ronbo Fine Painting, Oak Park, 848-0214
Numerous rankings range from GOOD to POOR, with one comment of the homeowner feeling physically threatened after making a complaint.

2. 7/25/2003. Thomas Restoration Painting. Oak Park. 386-0155
GOOD. Long-time resident of community.




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PLUMBING


1. 7/17/2003. Callahan & Sons. Oak Park. 848-6749.
GOOD. Generations in Oak Park. Skilled. Maybe a bit pricey.

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ROOFING


1. 8/11/2003. Tobie Roofing. Chicago. 773-763-2642.
GOOD. Does work himself. Will return for patchwork if problem arises.




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SIDING




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TUCKPOINTING


1. 8/1/2003. All High Work. Oak Park. 445-9271
POOR. Used wrong material. Did not remove old mortar before putting on new. Color did not match existing.

2. 8/11/2003. Andy Rafalko. Chicago. 773-777-1208.
GOOD to FAIR. Quality pretty good. Honest. English poor.




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WASHERS/DRYERS




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WINDOWS AND LINTELS




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WROUGHT IRON




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OTHER

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CONTACT


email us
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DISCLAIMER


Neither the administrator nor his associates accept any responsibility for any comment favorable or unfavorable made about a contractor or repairman, and the effects on that business that results, and is not responsible for workmanship performed by same as a result of the hiring of same after viewing this website. Let the buyer beware. Anyone who hires a contractor or repairman after viewing this website does so at their own peril.

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