Contractor Hall Of Fame

As most of you know, we have been doing some serious, serious remodeling in our home. While it has been a lot of fun, it has been very stressful too. We've run across many great contractors, and a few clunkers. This post is to let you know who the best contractors around are - they deserve your business!! You can click on their business cards to the right to see larger versions (with readable phone numbers!). In alphabetical order:

A Mirror Decor They made a bathroom mirror for us at a reasonable cost and delivered it on time. They are very pleasant to work with.

Barton Custom Paint They painted our entire interior - top to bottom - in three days. Very professional, very pleasant, and again very reasonable on price. High recommended.

Chad of All Trades As the name implies, they did a little bit of everything for us: lots of plumbing, appliance installation (dishwasher, oven, cooktop, hood), appliance moving (fridge and washer/dryer), and some texture work also. They are there when you need them.

Hayes Custom Tile John Hayes and company did some fabulous granite countertops for us, as well as first rate tile work on the floors and kitchen backsplash. He offers up excellent ideas to enhance the look you're going for.

Import Stone This is where we bought our granite slabs - they have a huge selection of slabs on site and are very easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with our granite!

Linden Painting and Refinishing We used Dave Linden's company to refinish our kitchen and bathroom cabinets. This man knows his wood and takes extreme pride in his work. He personally applies the finishes to ensure top quality! If you're cabinet wood is fine but you just need a new finish, Dave is your man.

Pacific Coast Hardwood Floors We had existing layered wood floors in our family room and kitchen - they just needed to be refinished. Mike Hernandez from Pacific Coast came over and gave us the low down on what was and wasn't possible, and proceeded to refinish our floors in the most magnificent way! Highly recommended.

These people who work with wood -

they are very detail oriented.

Victor Villa We had Victor come in to estimate some baseboard work for us, and ended up having him do tile shower floor work also (our original tile installer - not anyone listed in this post - had messed up the shower floor badly). Victor explained in detail what was wrong and what could be done short of ripping the whole thing out, and we are extremely happy with the results. Go, Victor!

And finally. there is a gentleman who we have worked with for years to patch up dry wall issues we encounter who does a fabulous job - his name is David Borders and his cell phone is 760-415-4791. He does small jobs (from small hole repairs to retexture of a wall to re-drywalling a room) but will be able to recommend excellent companies if you need an entire home drywalled.

All of these people cover north San Diego county and I would recommend them without pause. They are not the cheapest, but as the saying goes you get what you pay for.