Dale Martinez, the Owner of Furniture Medic by Dale in Orem is THE BEST. Dale is great at repairing fine furniture and pretty much any woodworking or furniture repair project. He is polite, honest and charges fair and reasonable prices and is very reliable. I have used Dale for many years to repair my Old Hickory and other fine furniture and wood related repairs at my place at Sundance. He goes above and beyond to do his amazing furniture repair and woodwork magic. Hire him and you won't be disappointed...Dale's great!
Spoiler Alert: I'm a former corporate attorney who used to structure deals for a Fortune 500 Company...so this is a long detailed Yelp Review. I just wanted to set the record straight on Yelp for Furniture Medic by Dale. My gut is that most of his many highly satisfied clients, unlike me, are older folks who generally don't write Yelp Reviews. I actually don't write Yelp Reviews but felt the need to help Dale out and write this Yelp Review to combat the Ridiculous Trashtalk Yelp Reviews. Like many other artisans and craftsmen, Dale is out working and making a living and is not the most Internet savvy guy ...so this one's for you, Dale!
Dale most recently repaired an expensive rustic twig branch headboard at my Sundance vacation home. The guy actually climbed down a ravine to get matching branches to replace the branches that a guest tore out (hopefully in the throes of passion) which left a large hole in the intricate design of the headboard...the repair was fantastic and you can't even notice the repair even up close and it looks just like new. Over the years, Dale has done the gamut of repair work for me from simple repairs like fixing cabinet doors and fixtures and my sofa sleeper bed to more complex repairs like fixing my broken wooden deck rails from falling snow damage off the roof and the woven seats of my Old Hickory chairs and climbing down a ravine to get those branches to fix my headboard. He's an artisan and a skilled wood worker who charges fair and honest Utah prices, even to a girl from NYC and NoCal.
There is a reason why Sundance Resort and a lot of the other high end 4 and 5 Star Resorts and homeowners around Utah County, Park City, Deer Valley and Salt Lake City use Dale for furniture repair....Pure and simple, Dale is honest and reliable, does great repair work, is highly skilled, keeps his word on what he can and can't do, is very polite like almost everyone in Utah County (which is why I love Utah) and charges fairly and honestly.
Utah's a great place but as an outsider, my experience has been that when you have work done remotely in Utah especially calling from NYC or NoCal Silicon Valley, the Utah service provider either: 1) like Dale does excellent work and charges fairly and honestly or 2) unlike Dale thinks Sucker from NYC, then does at best middling work and charges you an arm and a leg amount which is often greater than what one would pay in NYC or NoCal Silicon Valley (...believe me, I've experienced that as well...eg Shoutdown to the tile guy who installed fake travertine tiles at my place (which was probably leftover stuff from another job) and charged me over $2500 for a 3'x4' area that should have been less than $1000 for everything).
If you need an honest, thoughtful REAL REFERENCE for Dale and Furniture Medic by Dale in Orem, feel free to contact Dale and ask him for the contact information of the girl from NYC and NoCal with the mountain home at Sundance for a legitimate reference. It would be my pleasure to give Dale a Great Reference.
Ignore the 3 Unwarranted 1 Star Yelp Reviews (2 by the Same Person!) Unfairly Trying to Trash Dale and Furniture Medic by Dale on Yelp...ie Shoutdown to: 1) Dee D. of El Sobrante, CA...wherever the heck that is (aka Diane D. of Item 3) below. Looking at Dee D./Diane D.'s other Yelp Reviews, almost 1/2 are Negative Yelp Reviews, the majority being 1 Star Reviews trashing the Vendor for not bending over backwards and scraping and bowing to her and giving her more than her money's worth for ridiculous asks whereas her High Star Reviews are for Cheap Restaurants that served very large portions and Vendors that acquiesced to her complaining and demands and pretty much gave her stuff for free and most likely lost money on her....Come on Dee, Vendors have a right to make a living and deserve to make a fair profit and to be paid fairly for their efforts). 2) Leya P. of Atlantic Beach, FL (in my opinion was probably upset that Dale honestly reported to the Vendor the extent of the actual damage and repair rather than her desired dishonest account...Leya P. states that she has only written just 1 Bad Yelp Review implying that she's written many other Yelp Reviews but her Vindictive Yelp Review to Trash Dale is her ONLY EVER Yelp Review). 3) Diane D. of San Pablo CA appears to be the same person as Dee D. of Item 1) above, submitting another 1 Star Yelp Review to decrease the overall Star Rating of Dale. An Evil Wench! read more