ABC Handyman

Linda M.

Garth is very competent and knows what he is doing. He did a number of different repairs for us (shower door, outside faucet) and replaced a number of items around the house (porch light, down spouts). He gave us some good advice as to what else needs to be done to maintain our home. Thank you, Garth!

David H.

Garth converted our fire pit to gas, and we are pleased with his efforts. He was quick to come out and scope the project, and he followed through as agreed upon. He was professional and courteous throughout the project. I would use his services again in the future.

Philip D.

While initially Garth was responsive, after he gets paid, the warranty work that he promises is non-existent. I have tried several times to contact him about things that he needs to fix on an install that he did, however, since he will not get back to me I have no choice but to report him to the BBB. I am severely disappointed in his ability to live up to his word. If you hire him for something keep in mind that you get one shot, when he's paid, he disappears.
He is all promises and goodwill until he needs to live up to his word.

Untrustworthy, deceitful and dishonest.

Kenny J.

Garth has done work for us many times and always does a great job. In our experiences he has made it easy to get help when we need it and works around our schedule. We recently needed help with a storage unit and he was able to drop what he was doing and get to us in 40 minutes. Thanks Garth!

Sally K.

I reported Garth to WA L&I when I discovered he was operating without an active contractor's license. He received his FOURTH ticket which came with a $5k fine, and also a $500 plumbing fine. I also received a response from someone else on Yelp who wrote that Garth did something very similar to his apartment, right after my experience.

Heather R.

Garth was fabulous! Wonderful person and very skilled. I will definitely use him again!!

Wendy A.

I've been waiting for over a month to write this review. I wanted to see if my initial reaction remained and also how the work quality held up. I am now confident to proceed.
Work done: removal of old and installation of new tub fixtures (drain plug, faucet, lever and shower head).
The two positives about this experience were that, 1. He was available to come within our time frame as we had out of town guests arriving and, 2. He was friendly and enthusiastic (and very chatty)
Other than that, we were quite disappointed. The fixtures I picked out at H.D., he said, were not compatible even though they were the same brand as the original. He told me he would make a call to the company to see what their recommended alternative was. In the meantime, he would need my husband to go to Home Depot to get plumber's putty and silicone caulk, which we were kind of surprised he didn't have with him. Garth made 2 trips to get the parts needed and was gone, we both thought, a considerable amount of time for what he was purchasing which ended up being, what I would consider, apartment quality tub fixtures. After he was done and we were $418 poorer, we looked in the bathroom and noticed that he had forgotten to secure the ring around the shower head to the wall so my husband had to do that. I also noticed that the silicone caulking around the tub spout had been so messily applied that it was smeared several inches outside the place where the spout meets the fiberglass shower wall. 3 weeks later, after our guests had gone and I went in to clean, I could see that the silicone around the spout was coming away and the spout was now loose. We have another handyman coming to fix this next week. I really should have waited until he was available. He's already done some work for us since Garth, is much cheaper and is doing a fantastic job. He also doesn't spend much time talking to us.......nothing wrong with that, per se, but, after all, the hourly rate clock is ticking. Lastly, I never received the invoice that he said he would send via email so I don't have a breakdown of the parts and labor charges. Upon further inspection and as I said earlier, I was shocked and disappointed at the low quality of the fixtures. He didn't check with us before installation and once they were in, I just wanted to pay him and ""stop the clock"" because he had been there for hours!! This part is totally my fault. I should have paid more attention to what he was doing but it seemed that every time I checked in on him, he started talking to me and I really wanted to leave him alone to get it done asap. Thankfully, it is just a spare bathroom that will be probably be remodeled someday. In hindsight, I wish I would have had more patience and saved the $$ and just left the ugly gold fixtures in there. You live and learn.
Glad some of you had a great experience. Wish we had.

Annie M.

Garth responded to a late night yelp request for an air conditioner install quote. We just moved to Vancouver WA and arrived in the middle of a heat wave. Our new place has had no AC and we have been very uncomfortable (and with two small children that is especially hard)! It also turned out that we have smallish windows and it was a struggle to see how we could make it work. He walked me through the process, talked to my husband at the store, custom installed the AC that night and it looks amazing. More importantly, it FEELS amazing. The house is cool... we can sleep and enjoy our new home. He is so helpful and so nice! The price was exactly as discussed and very very reasonable. I cannot stress enough how much I endorse this business and this person. What a blessing.

Mark M.

Called me on a Sunday to help me trouble shoot an old wood lathe I'm trying to refurb. Nice guy.

Rachel B.

Garth is awesome! He came over late at night when we realized our toilet wouldn't flush at all & I had to be at work at 4am. I definitely recommend this guy!