Greg was referred to me and I believe in supporting local businesses, however, I don't feel good about the project we did because of pricing.
Our sprinkler box went out and Greg came to the house to verify and identify what unit we'd need to order/replace it - giving us a price of $250. He also said that we'd need a new outlet and had a guy who could install it.
When Greg returned with the box, he didn't account for the number of zones correctly resulting in a final price of $450.
The electrician he referred charged $125 to install the new outlet.
1 week later, the system went down. I was able to confirm that it wasn't the box that was the issue, the outlet didn't work. We also had 1 sprinkler head that was broken.
Greg came back out to check the system and fix the 1 sprinkler head. He identified a 2nd head that needed to be fixed. He wanted to charge me $250! He ended up charging me $200 after I expressed concerns that this is the second time he's charged me a lot more than he said it would be.
The electrician admitted to installing it incorrectly and corrected it AND charged me an additional $60. Also, I don't think I should have paid because I paid him $125 to install it and he did it wrong. In the end I paid $185 to install an outlet.
I sent Greg and the electrician a text message on Wednesday after they left expressing all these concerns and neither of them responded. I said that supporting local businesses was important to me and that I wanted to be able to refer them but didn't feel that they were honest with me.... still they didn't respond.
All in all, I ended up paying a lot more money than what they quoted and what I would have paid if I went with a more well known business. Disappointing. read more