I am astounded that Estrada's Heat & Air does not have over a hundred positive reviews on Yelp. I believe I found him after a couple of hours researching on the Internet for someone who is an expert in handling old gas wall heaters with standing pilot lights. I think he had a blog on the Internet it. I have been a landlord of a hundred year old building for over a generation. It used to be easy to find a good reasonably priced heater repairman. It's now practically impossible if you can only speak English. Fortunately Estrada speaks excellent Spanish and English .
I had two other recommended repairmen work on the heater in the past few days. They did not know what they were doing when they "repaired" it. My tenant, who was new, was threatening to leave (and I can't afford for the place to be vacant again).
Out of the great kindness of his heart, Estrada was able to find time to drive all the way out to Santa Monica. I called other repairmen in the last two days that either refused to try to deal with a very old heater, or said they were too busy due to the rainstorm.
When Estrada got here, he got right to work like a surgeon. He was also training another man, because clearly he knows what he is doing. He used all Covid precautions, including booties, and cleaned up what little mess he made with a vacuum cleaner.
Since Estrada's Heat & Air's website says they handle all sorts of heater and air conditioning repairs/replacements, I have no doubt he is excellent with modern as well as old stuff. He says he's happy to come out to Santa Monica, so I got business cards from him to give to my neighbors. read more