FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
With the exemption of cabinets my pricing is simply T&M (time and materials). I provide you with a not to exceed value for labor at the start of the job (T&M not to exceed 5 hours for example) so you will know the maximum amount you will be liable for regardless of how much time it takes me. If I get it done faster than I say (which happens 90% of the time) I simply invoice you for the actual time used and round to the nearest 15 minute increment. Fair for you, fair for me, and very transparent. Cabinets are bid by the job.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I was quite literally born into it. My family (parents and maternal grandparents) all lived under the same roof when I was growing up. My grandfather had a cabinet shop and a stained glass studio and my father had a medium sized Plumbing shop (Mar Vista Plumbing). If I wasn't running around on the sawdust floors of the cabinet shop I was playing with my brother in the plumbing shop (probably driving the guys crazy). When I was 15 I started doing some work with my dad, got interested in trades and went from there.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Bread and butter stuff is basic plumbing and electrical repair because it is the most common thing that fails in the home. I build alot of built-in cabinets, kitchen cabinets, finish carpentry, and storage shelving but I am not limited to woodworking. I do about 50 A/V installations a year (TV mounting, wire concealing, etc) as well as home automation (Lutron RadioRA, NEST, Smarthome, etc) Additionally, I have been known to take on seemingly random jobs like gallery wall installations, furniture restoration, landscape design and installation to name a few.