We hired Harmony Tile and Marbles to install Marble Tile flooring for two of our bathrooms. We found Tomasz by searching and reading reviews in Yelp.com.
Tomasz turned out to be one of those rare founds of contractors, who is responsive, honest, professional, friendly, courteous, and reliable. Moreover, his workmanship is absolutely first-rate. After coming out to my house to discuss the scope of the project, take the measurements, and make the estimates, Tomasz told us about a local Marble retailer/supplier in Oakland. He later met us there to help us select the tiles. We were able to make a purchase using his contractor discount. We ended up selecting a beautiful Crema Marfil stone from Spain.
After buying the tile, we set a date for the project. A couple of weeks before the scheduled start date, Tomasz went to the suppliers (on a day when it was raining), hand-picked the pieces of tiles for us (he selected 45 tiles out of 200), making sure their color and patterns are close enough to each other. Tomasz then delivered the tile to my house, and stacked them in my garage.
At the start of the project, Tomasz came with his assistant, Z-man, and introduced Z-man as the handy man who would be helping him to do some of the supportive works.
For the first couple of days, Z-man removed the toilets, took out the vinyl flooring, and installed the substrates. It was obvious from the onset that Z-man was another one of those hard to find, high quality subcontractors who are highly skilled and experienced, hard-working, meticulous. (Incidentally, we liked Z-man so much that later on, after the Marble Flooring project, we hired him to do some other electrical and general contracting work).
Once the substrates were ready, Tomasz came to lay the tiles himself. First, he set out the tiles in my Garage to pick and match the best ones for the largest open areas in the Master bathroom. And select the others for "bullnose" baseboard moldings. The stone tiles were set 1/16" apart from each other. Tomasz made sure there were spacers placed in between each tile, and that each tile is perfectly leveled by itself, as well as with others. He also setup a wet saw station outside to cut the stones for the side and corner pieces. After laying all the tiles, Tomasz selected a grout with a color that blends nicely into the color of the marbles. Once the grouts have been applied (and dried), Tomasz applied a sealant to the stone, and grout, and showed me how to maintain/reapply periodically.
The finished floor is a breathtakingly beautiful piece of work. We love it so much that we are now considering installing the samemarble tile for the entire living room and dining room downstairs.
Z-man came later came back to reinstall the toilets. The entire project took a little over a week. Throughout the entire time, both Z-man and Tomasz went out of their ways to keeping the house (and the garage) clean, and minimizing any dust or dirt contamination from the project. They also carefully bagged and removed all debris and trashes.
My wife and I could not be more pleased with Tomasz, and Z-man, and will not hesitate to hiring them for any future projects, or giving them our highest endorsements to anyone looking for quality work in the highest calibers. read more