The following is based on my personal experience of being a Home Owner that pays HOA dues that paid for SGS services.
This is not the smell good plumber or the good deed plumber. The 2.5 stars on Yelp should have told us something, but I had absolutely nothing to do with hiring SGS.
A woman who lives in the building was so incredibly stupid she was flushing massive amounts of Wet Wipes down the toilet. As Ron White states, "Can't Fix Stupid." Sewage back flowed due to the clog, I was told over 15 plumbers were called and the only one available on a Sunday afternoon was SGS, That alone should tell you something. The job dragged on for over month as a section of our sewer line from the building to the city sewer line had to be replaced. Our toilets, sinks, showers and dish washers were all shut down for a month. A friend who owns several apartment buildings in Santa Monica saw no reason the job shouldn't have been completed in less than two week.
I worked for a contractor the summer after I graduated High School. One of the hard fast rules he made sure everyone knew their first day was: "Never, Ever Use a Customers Tools for any reason." This is not a rule SGS follows. The first two days they were on site, they used our hoses and brooms. The hoses were neatly stored on a hose stand. Once SGS employees were done with them, they did not clean them up or put them away properly, the hoses were just dropped on the ground by the hose stand in a big pile. Then to make things worse SGS left a hose completely covered with God Knows What? SGS was working on a sewer line, the hose had to be thrown out, I was not going to attempt to clean up the hose it was disgusting. They left mud in the laundry room, behind the building, dirt in my garage as well as the mess left behind in the alley.
SGS installed a water heater in the laundry room, it is a tight fit, but previous plumbers have made it work. My water heater is connected with copper pipe that come straight out of the wall perpendicular at 90 degrees, No flex tubing. I clearly have labeled in three locations on the water heater, DO NOT MOVE. As well as I spoke to both SGS plumbers and politely told them my water heater was connected with copper pipes and please do not move my water heater, they agreed. They were not truthful. The copper pipes that connect my water heater are now BENT to one side, The spot on the floor that I marked with a Sharpie was no longer at the base of the water heater as well as all the dust was removed from the water heater where they man handled the water heater to move it, Keep in mind, this a 55 gallon water heater full of water. They had absolutely no care for my water heater as long as they completed their job by any means possible.
Personally, I would go to school and become a certified plumber before I would hire this contractor again.
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