My wife and I are not sure what could be the big difference between our experience and those of many others here, but gathered it could be something of a personality conflict, or a preconceived expectation of a "friendly Maytag's guy", or it could be as simple as a cultural difference. Whatever it is, for what it's worth, we have had excellent results so far.
Yuri, has done a number of visits to our house now. The first service was through a warranty repair for our Samsung washer. I checked Yelp and almost called elsewhere, but given it was a warranty fix, I didn't want to spend my own money to call someone else.
Yes, when he showed up, my wife said there was no small talk and he was very "reserved", but he definitely was never rude to her nor disrespectful. He was quick, direct and fixed the issue right away. While he was here, she asked him about our build-in microwave with a broken rotating plate that she has waited weeks for me to look at. He looked at it, said he could fix it, provided the quote, order the part, told her how long it might take, called back when the part was available, then promptly showed up as scheduled and fixed the issue.
Our neighbor had an issue also with the same build-in microwave, so we told them about the service and "warned" them not to expect small talk about the "Seahawks, the weather, or his life story", and his no nonsense demeanor. Afterwards, my neighbor's wife told us exactly what we experienced, fast, direct, boring, respectful but issue fixed.
This weekend our fridge had broken down, so I called Norrthwest again today, however, was somewhat hesitant afterwards since I decided to take a look here to see if there are new reviews. There were and they were mostly negative. But because of past 3 good experiences, I thought I just go for it and give it a shot again, especially since they were the only one that can be here before 11AM.
Yuri showed up at 10AM, all business as before, came in, looked at the fridge, told me what was wrong, indicated he had the part, told me the price of the part and asked if I wanted it fixed.
When he was done, I thought I just ask him if he knows how to replace an oven light which I couldn't figure out how to remove the cover; the worse he can do is say No, but he actually didn't have an issue at all and promptly showed me how to do it, and told me I should be able to find a cheap one at HomeDepot.
As it happens with Murhphy's law while he was still in the house, we both heard a weird noise, which turned out to be the exhaust fan in my laundry room. I asked him again if he mind taking a look, which he did, showed me how to take it apart and said I should be able to get a replacement part fairly easily, or he can potentially see about ordering one for me. I'd figure it would be something easy, so I chose to do it myself later...he did all this with no additional time charge, or complaints.
Overall, we have used other appliance repair services before this with comparable charges and mixed results, but his work so far has definitely been efficient, reliable and on-time, so we wouldn't care if he didn't say anything other than what is relevant--I always made sure that I asked the appropriate questions related to the work too. We will continue to use and recommend his services. read more