I had a great experience with Paul. He gave me a quote, completed the job, and was courteous and professional the entire time. I appreciate the extra things he did with no charge, while he could have certainly have charged us. We just bought a house and he came in the first couple of weeks to complete the job we needed done. He completed two bathroom floors, a new shower, kitchen counters, and an extra counter for us and they all look great! We will use Paul from now on. read more

The work they did was absolutely amazing! I am currently renovating my home for the time when I finally move out. Paul and his son Zac gave me excellent recommendations for how my flooring layout should look, and were very professional about installation. They are the absolute best, we are actually booking them to do the rest of my house including all of the bedrooms and bathrooms upon getting out tax return. Their work is nothing but solid and wonderful. If you have anymore questions I recommend getting on the phone and calling them! They are nothing but honest and hardworking people who do an absolute amazing job. Thank you so much Elite Tile!!!!! I really absolutely love my room!!! read more

I find it humorous and somewhat ridiculous the other reviewer suggests that I am either Paul Berkshire or affiliated with him. Also, I did not criticize the other critiques personally, I just mentioned that I saw them and gave more weight to the recommendation of our real estate agent (who we know and trust). Draw your own conclusions. As I mentioned before, I purchased a house earlier this year through Scott Rivera real estate, and Paul was recommended to us by Scott. I voiced my concerns to Scott after reading the other two reviews, and he assured me that he had never had a problem with Paul's work. Feel free to look me up in the white pages. John Fordham (not Paul Berkshire, LOL). read more

I would not recommend Paul the owner from Elite Tile. Paul wants to only install the tile and backsplash that he wants. I don't believe he's confident in anything outside of what Paul recommends to do. You hire a contractor to do the work for us not tell us that what we picked out doesn't match. Paul's Job is to install not consult or argue with us about what we want. This is our home and not Pauls. Paul refuses to install Home Depot or Lowe's material. Paul recommends Bill Ray tile which don't get me wrong they are great. Paul will quote you counter tops and backsplash with materials included. What he doesn't tell you is that you are very limited at what you can pick out since it's included in the price. I believe Paul makes some additional money on doing this. Paul is very rude and a grumpy old man. Paul ended up ignoring our text and calls the day before he was suppose to start the work at our house. This really put a burden on us since our house was empty and prepped for him to start his work. This is unprofessional and caused us a delay on getting back into our home. Paul basically flaked on us without notice or explanation. I would discourage anyone from hiring Paul. His prices are great, although you pay for what you get they say. As a business owner I can't see how anyone could do this to someone. If there were a half star rating that's what I would be rating Paul at. Hope this saves you all the headache it has caused us! read more

Do not use this guy!! He will take your money and not complete the job. Bill Ray Tile recommends him, but I will tell them just what they are recommending. read more

Paul is on time, fair and very professional. Doesn't matter size of job, he can handle it. Highly recommend him.

Much like others, I never leave reviews.  However, today I had the pleasure of meeting Paul and he helped me with a couple of tile repairs I had around my home.  He repaired them in minutes, was very professional, and was very kind.  He showed up right on time, and his work was clean and quick.  I would recommend him to anyone needing tile repair or tile services. read more

Well I normally don't write reviews but here goes, I had too since the guy b4 me had such a great experience. Also he probably was not aware of the Suspension of Pauls Lic I guess he missed that? I hired Paul about 2 weeks ago and forgot to do any other checks since he had did a okay job at my sisters house. He was supposed to show up on a Monday but no show, Tuesday No shoe no calls. Wed No show no calls I finally called and decided to check if he was still interested. He said he would be there about 0830 on Thursday, again No show about noon I got a call that he had just got done on another job site and he would be there Friday morning to start shower wall framing and also on Friday he would begin tile on lower level. Paul finally arrived on Friday brought a few 2x4s and a saw, we discussed the plans again and reconfirmed work needing to be done. after unloading these items he stated he needed some 4x4s that he forgot and got in his truck and left. I am not sure where he went to go get those 4x4s or if he went to the mill to do them himself. but he never returnd till about 0930 on Monday morning and started to do the frame work on the shower about 1 hour into the job it was clear as to the reason he had a suspended Lic the wall was not straight at all and the work was very poor. As I was looking over the work I decided I needed to do a little more research and got on line real quick to find out he had a suspension on his contractors Lic for failing to comply with a bond issue? HHHmmm must be from the great work he has been doing? At this point I decided we where done because I did not want to take a chance trying to get paid from his non existent bonding company. Hope this helps. I told him to pack his shit and go home. This information you can find on the contractors lic site for Ca. If you really don't care about a Lic or a bond give him a call I am sure he is probably home. Good Luck. 688761 Extract Date 4/16/2014 Business Information PAUL ALAN BERKSHIRE DBA ELITE TILE Business Phone Number: (661) 978-3439 6312 JENNIFER ST BAKERSFIELD, CA 93308 Entity Sole Ownership Issue Date 05/13/1994 Expire Date 05/31/2014 License Status SUSPENDED This License is under suspension for the following reasons: License suspended for failure to comply with a bond payout. License is under Contractors Bond Suspension. A contractor's bond may have been received by the Board but not yet processed. Once the bond is processed the suspension will be lifted retroactively to the effective date of the bond. Ask the contractor for proof of a contractor's bond and contact the bonding company to verify bond status. Classifications Class Description C54 TILE (CERAMIC AND MOSAIC) Bonding Contractor's Bond This license filed a Contractor's Bond with NAVIGATORS INSURANCE COMPANY. Bond Number: 04BC002668 Bond Amount: $12,500 Effective Date: 05/25/2010 Cancellation Date: 03/04/2012 Contractor's Bond History Workers' Compensation WORKERS' COMPENSATION This license is exempt from having workers compensation insurance; they certified that they have no employees at this time. Effective Date: 07/25/2005 Expire Date: None Workers' Compensation History read more

Elite Tile just completed a job for us and we couldn't be happier. Paul does beautiful work and always showed up when he said he would. We highly recommend Elite Tile! read more

If I could rate this business a zero star, I would. The business owner, Paul Berkshire did not inform us his contractor's license does not include plumbing, painting or cabinet refinishing. We had to repaint every wall he painted and had to remove all the paint spatters in both bathrooms. He installed tile in our home and poured the excess Thin-set and cement in our garden, and on our garden furniture. We now have a 4x4' cement pad we will have to pay someone to remove. He cut our den carpet short at the kitchen (which he re-tiled) and now we must pay to re-carpet the den as the carpet is too short to roll under. He stripped our kitchen cabinets with an orbital sander and dug divots into the wood and burned the wood, and gouged the bases. We could not get anyone else to fix the cabinets and were forced to have them resurfaced. He trimmed 14 doorways in our home, to allow space for the tile, where we previously had carpet. Unfortunately for us, he sawed all the door jambs without measuring and now each of the 14 doorways has a 1/2 inch gap on each side because the tile was not as thick as the cuts he made. Yes, it took him less than ten minutes to cut the doorways and damage each one. Berkshire owes us $300.00 as we over-advanced him on the work and now he won't return our money. Avoid this company at all costs. Our next step is small-claims court, the BBB, and we will be reporting him to the CA Contractor's Bureau. BEWARE of Elite Tile and Paul Berkshire. I should also mention Paul brought along his brother, Doug, to "help out". Doug seemed to think it hilarious when he told me he had been urinating in my yard and garden. He had access to the bathrooms in my home as all work was indoors. Never have I known a contractor to so disrespect a customer, or their home. We also have holes in the drywall in our home, caused by Berkshire. He originally installed a plastic sink in our kitchen, I guess thinking we wouldn't notice. He finally installed what we paid for, but we had to call a plumber to fix the leak Berkshire left in the sink drain. He didn't want Lowe's to "damage his tile work" around our new stovetop so he insisted on installing it. Many times I insisted there was a gas leak. He oh so helpfully sent his father to check, who also found no leak. I called Lowe's and they were kind enough to send an installer to check and guess what? He found the leak and repaired it. He said he could smell gas when he walked in the front door of our home. I am medically retired due to permanently painful injuries sustained during a work-related accident. Berkshire and his brother made multiple jokes at my expense, about what pain "drugs" I might be taking for my "so-called" injuries. They ridiculed me for "being home all day and not cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner" for my husband. They often called me a "druggie" and wanted to "try" my medication. A representative with Berkshire's bond company advised us that Berkshire ruined the tile work in another customer's home and damaged or didn't replace some of the dry wall in her home.Do not waste your money on Elite Tile. Elite they are not. September, 2011: The update to this dilemma is that we filed a claim against Paul Berkshire's bond company. It is no simple matter to get a bond company to come to your home for an inspection/photographs and payment of the bond. As there was another customer whose home suffered damages at his hands, we had to split the bond. We each received $6,250.00 as the complete bond amount will only be paid out once each twelve month period. Though we have never communicated with the other customer, we are grateful they agreed to split the bond in half, rather than fight out that matter amongst ourselves. Berkshire is/was not bonded enough to pay for ONE claim, never mind two. Someone wrote on Yelp that he feels because two of us wrote negative reports in relatively the same time period, that our reviews are "fake". I have now verified this person is personally affiliated with the company. Both claimants suffered damages at Berkshire's hands and we each had claims over $12,500.00. In fact the damages to our home were in excess of $14,000.00. We filed everything at the same time because we were his customers at the same time. He would leave one job (disappear) and go to the other. We didn't have the exact same damages, but the process for filing complaints and claims againt Berkshire is the same. If you don't believe our reviews, go ahead and hire Paul Berkshire/EliteTile, to work in your home/business. Just make certain you wait a year from now, or your claim against his bond company will be thrown out, due to lack of funds until next August, 2012. We JUST received our checks and the damages were caused July-August 2010. read more

This man is rude and ruined my kitchen counters and floor tile. He made holes in my drywall when removing old tile and did not repair the holes. He placed tile over the holes and now the tile is caving in. He did not align tile correctly around the edges of counter near the stove. Pieces are not aligned and cabinet tops are still exposed. He left old flooring in the laundry room and tiled over it. It caused the tile to be higher than the tile in the hallway and tile is raised. I can't even go barefoot in my own home! None of the floor tiles are even..some are lower and others are raised. The plumber he hired to install my new sink had to come back 3 times for a leak. There is more.....He also added extra tile to my order that was placed at Bedrosians and charged it to my credit card. Please do not hire this man. His work is awful and he is very unprofessional. Job was completed late and half the time he wouldn't show up till late or the next day. I truly regret hiring this guy. I have filed a complaint with the BBB and the state licensing board. I will also be going to small claims court to make him pay for a REAL professional to complete his mistakes. Please be careful! read more

I would like to start off by saying that I have known Paul Berkshire for 20years. Paul is a fantastic tile contractor and a very professional business man. The statements made by these two bitter woman are so far out of character that ist laughable. There is no way Paul would say he is licensed to do anything other then tile. Paul has been in business for a very long time and has done everything from small entry jobs to complete new built track homes. These woman wanted work done then didn't want to have to pay for it. I believe you have nothing better to do with you time. Its borderline obssessive and I feel sorry for you. I can provide at least a dozen customers that are more then happy with the work and craftsmanship that Paul Berkshire provided. Paul has received so many new customers because of word of mouth and that just proves he has an excellent reputation. I would like to also point out that you need to watch what you say because a law suit for slander and defamation is very expensive. There is no way in heck that Paul would ever ask anyone for there meds personal or professional. read more