A total kitchen remodel was a bigger project than I expected. Having a company like Virgo Remodeling was extremely helpful when it came to pulling all the pieces together. Cabinets, flooring, painting and countertops. Brian with Virgo did the cabinet piece, and provided crucial information regarding the flooring, countertops and painting. He helped with all the decisions that needed to be made, and coordinated with the other contractors to ensure that each part fell together seamlessly. I got 3 estimates for the total project, and ending up going with Brian to get the entire project complete. His estimate was in the middle as far as cost. From the 1st stage of demolition, to the last countertop being installed, Brian made sure that all the details were covered, and that the project moved along smoothly. He did quality cabinet work, and clearly took pride in all the work that was done. I could have gotten it all done for a little less money, but am confident that I paid a fair price. Many questions came up during the process, and Brian provided all the answers along the way. When issues came up, and they inevitably will, Brian took the time to get them resolved. I am very happy that I didn't go with the cheapest estimate, as I'm certain that I wouldn't have received the assistance that I got as the project progressed. I am very happy with Virgo Remodeling, and would recommend that you reach out to Brian to see if they can do a great kitchen remodel for you as well. read more

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An absolute horror story. Brian came recommended to us from a friend and seemed very honest and knowledgable from our initial meeting. My wife and I were looking for to have some minor renovation work, cabinet install done and when asked our budget we told him 6k. This was our first mistake...little did we know the job we were asking was never close to 6k worth of work. We were happy when Brian provided a quote for just over 5k and didn't look too closely at it since we trusted his expertise. Brian came by and collected a check for about 50% which was $2500. Brian ordered cabinets from home depot and told us he didn't realize he had to assemble them, it would be an extra $250. Sounds fine, honest mistake we thought. The first day he told us there was an outlet that needed to be moved higher, it would be an extra $350...ok again, things come up. He also removed a cabinet to make room for a dishwasher. The next day I came home after work and found the three cabinets along the wall had been installed...oddly enough though they were installed so high up that we couldn't reach into the base of the tallest one without a step stool. The adjacent cabinet which the microwave was supposed to hang from was so high that nearly the entire microwave would be above the fridge. The sideboard beside the dishwasher that was installed had holes filled with spackle. I called Brian the next day and his offer was to install new cabinets that we could reach for around $1700. I told him to put the project on pause while I thought things over. It was at that moment that I took a closer look at our invoice and noticed $1200 in material for cabinets...that had to be too high. I found the cabinets on Home Depot and added them in a cart which came to $400. Then I looked at the boxes of tile that were on the counter set to be installed...the box of 100 tiles was $16 and the box of trim had 36 pieces that according to the SKU number were 79 cents each. The material charge for those two boxes of tiles according to Brian...$250! There was a line item for custom tile I had found to match our other cabinet for $480 and that was the only price Brian didn't try to scam us on, but he did have the tile sent to his house and never gave it to us. In the meantime Brian sent an email threatening mediation if we didn't pay him an additional $2,000 on top of the $2,500 which included an invoice for work not performed and $1200 for installing the cabinets...which at that point would need to be uninstalled. The next morning I called Brian and said we'd be happy to settle up the cost if we could see the actual homedepot.com charge for our material....a very long pause until Brian said he didn't know if he would be able to find them. This ended up going back and forth through the day with texts...Brian lowering his price several hundred dollars but still wanting over 1k additional dollars when he owed us money the entire time and that it was ridiculous to ask for receipts. He eventually sent a picture of a handwritten itemized receipt. At that point I grabbed the manuals from all of the cabinets, double checked the SKU numbers and came up with an additional $400 over charge. The next day we had a cabinet installer come by and tell us he'd never seen cabinets installed so high and explained that the sideboard was made up of a cut up cabinet with spackle in the bolt holes and that it was just a hack way to put something on there. I also went to move the base cabinet that had been assembled down into the basement to get it out of the way and the whole think literally fell apart. Screws dropped out of it and I was able to just slide the pieces apart....they never even bothered to screw it together. The silver lining in the whole story is that we got out when we did. We lost $2500 plus expenses to uninstall the cabinets and sideboard but it could have been $6k with a disaster of a kitchen. Also with the $3,500 we didn't spend, an honest contractor is installing semi-custom solid wood cabinets with an itemized list...it's too bad we didn't find him first and essentially allowed someone to come into our home to rob us blind. read more

Virgo Remodeling - We were charged $1200 in material for these cabinets a one other. That's a $100 cabinet from Home Depot...discrepancy is due to "research" - General Contractors Near Me - Cincinnati, Ohio

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I just moved into my first home, had a few projects come up pretty quickly, one involving repair of a door casing a dog chewed up, and gutter repair. Brian came recommended from a friend, and was very prompt, and accommodating to my schedule. It was such a relief to come home from work to see the projects done. Should something come up again in the future I would definitely use Brian again. read more

Brian and his group did an excellent job of installing a deck over our concrete patio. It was not a big job, but the demo of the old deck and adding the new deck was completed on time and looks perfect. The clean up was thorough and the small team was very professional. I plan on calling Brian for more work in the future. read more

Brian is an experienced and knowledgeable handyman who can get about anything done. He is fair & reasonable, not to mention being a great guy. Let him help you catch your dreams! read more

I was pleased with Brian's work. He did several small jobs in my condo unit. One of them (removing an ancient, rusty wall heater in the bathroom) was challenging in that the space in the wall was odd-sized. Brian spent some time searching and found a service door panel on a web-site from Canada that worked very well. He also took out an ancient wall fan in the kitchen and insulated and dry-walled over the opening. Looks much better now. I would hire him again. read more

We used Brian and his crew in August. We had been referred to them by a pesticide company. We had called the pesticide company because we were having a problem with carpenter bees. We had inherited them. They had been swarming our house -- specifically, along one side of the house -- since we bought it in 2000. Over the years we had tried a variety of remedies -- hiring exterminators (they spent two years making half-hearted attempts to eliminate the bees), applying pesticides on our own, etc. -- all to no avail. Ultimately, I decided to try again. I contacted ANOTHER pesticide company. When they heard what we had done in the past to eliminate the bees, they suggested I contact Brian. Their belief was: Unless caught in the beginning, carpenter bees are nearly impossible to eliminate. The bees burrow into your wood, sometimes boring tunnels 20' long, to deposit their eggs/larva (not sure of the correct scientific term) which then "hatch" the following season -- an endless, ever-expanding problem. And if, as in our case, the opening of those tunnels are inaccessible, well...you've got a problem -- you can't fill the tunnels with poison and plug them, which is often cited as the best solution to the problem. The pesticide company said Brian was the only remodeler they referred clients to, and that he might have a "technological solution." Yep, that's what I thought too -- a "technological solution?" No matter, I wanted the bees removed. I called Brian. I had no problem reaching him. We spoke briefly, and then he asked me to text him photos of the area in question. He immediately called back. He said, "I now understand why the exterminator suggested you call me. He's correct. The best way to eliminate the bees is to remove the wood they have infested and replace it with a composite wood, made of plastic, that looks and takes paint just like wood." Think Trex, which is used in decking, only it was a different brand, sold by Lowe's. That made sense. Bees don't drill through plastic. And if you remove the old wood, you've removed their "nests." I asked for a quote to include installation, painting, caulking, a one-year warranty, and hauling away the debris (about $2,000) and we were set to go. They came out a few weeks later, again when mutually convenient, and did the work. Brian sent out two nice, polite guys in their 20s who knew what they were doing and who wanted to do it well. It took them two days to complete the job. As Brian had said, the "plastic" wood looked exactly like the old wood. More importantly, when the crew had finished, we noticed an immediately reduction in bees; those that remained kept looking around, trying to find their old homes, or, barring that, to find ways or locations to drill new ones. But because all the accessible wood had been replaced by "plastic" wood there was no place to drill. Ultimately, the stragglers took off, hoping, I'm assuming, to find other homes. Since then, things have continued to improve. After a couple of weeks, we'd see the occasional bee, but no signs of new drilling: just a buzzing nuisance out for an afternoon stroll. A part of the improvement could be the season -- carpenter bees historically slow down late summer, early fall -- but we suspect that much of it has to do with the "technological solution": plastic wood. We'll know for certain next spring, when carpenter bees come back into season, but we're optimistic. Time will tell. And we have a one-year warranty if Brian's approach fails to fix the problem along the side of the house. Sure, the bees could come back and start drilling on the front or the back of the house, but that's a different problem -- there will always be bees. But we're hopeful that we removed their desire to return to the side of our house. My 4 star rating reflects the quality of Brian's work, his thoroughness, his innovative solution to fixing the problem, and the ease we had with contacting and communicating with him. We won't know for certain whether his solution actually worked until we get through another spring season, but we're optimistic. If we do get through next spring with no bees, I'll bump the review up to 5 stars. read more