APPLIANCES

Wiseman Appliance—206-937-7400:  long-time West Seattle business with good selection and service; located at

APPLIANCE REPAIR

Bob’s Appliance—206-325-4141:  Reasonable prices, great job;  Bob is a super-sweet guy, who’s been in the biz for a long time—he’s probably about ready to retire, but I hope he doesn’t any time soon!

Osborne Appliance—425-673-9111:  Reliable appliance repair

Scott Wiseman Appliance Service—206-937-5524:  Part of the Wiseman Appliance family; works on products the store sells, but can also service appliances purchased elsewhere

ARCHITECTS

Tyler Engle, Tyler Engle Architects P.S.—206-621-7150; www.tylerengle.com:  excellent architect for remodels, additions, and new construction; can do small and large projects, high end or modest; very deliberate and thoughtful design; high-quality work

Michael Hoffman, H+dlT Collaborative—206-545-0700;  www.hdltcollaborative.com:  everything from kitchen and bath remodels to multimillion dollar home, mixed use buildings, and high rises;  works to make sure project is within budget constraints and maximizes light, views, space, etc.

ATTIC AND CRAWLSPACE CLEANOUT

See “Clean Crawls” listing under “Insulation”

BATHTUB REFINISHING

Custom Bath Tub and Tile Reglazers (Ron Southall)—206-622-1499

CARPET

Carpet Liquidators—www.carpetliquidators.com:  several locations around Puget Sound

CHIMNEY CLEANING/REPAIR

Abe’s Chimney Services—206-763-8154:  does a great job for a reasonable price

Emerald City Chimney, Inc—425-821-6136 or 206-522-0290; www.emeraldcitychimney.com:  Long-time business, know their stuff, good service

CLOSET SYSTEMS

Closet Doctor (Greg Chapman)—206-583-0299

COUNTERTOPS

Fine Line Pacific—425-251-6177:  granite, stone, and solid surface countertops

DO-IT-YOURSELF ADVICE

McLendon Hardware—206-762-4090;

DRYWALL

DC Drywall (Dale Landis, owner)—206-783-9822:  Professional, great work, reasonable rates, reliable; very small business, so you may need to wait until Dale is available to do the work

ELECTRICIANS

Bowie Electric—206-789-6500

Cottage Electric—425-483-0333

Eagle Electric—206-246-7123:  Extremely pleasant to work with, know their stuff, generally can come out on a quick turnaround

Greenlake Electric—206-789-4371:  Good, reliable electrician

Hill Electric—425-485-4321

Sun Bright Electric—206-369-8282; briflack@comcast.net

FENCING

Alki Fence—206-444-6089:  Easy to work with; did high-quality work on cedar fencing

Town and Country Fence—206-622-8480:  Easy to work with; another company that does high quality work on cedar fencing

Also, see “Landscaping”

FURNITURE

Seattle Office Furniture, Angela Wagner—206-728-5710:  Provides consultation and design, as well as furniture.  Will help you choose and adjust furniture so that it is ergonomically supportive for you and will bring portable furniture (like office chairs) to your home or office so that you can see what they would be like in your space.  They have a showroom downtown at

FURNACE REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT

Brennan Heating—206-248-7900; www.brennanheating.com

Matrix Energy Services—206-682-0212:  New furnaces, as well as cleaning/repair.  Also do tankless hot water heaters.  Good prices, good work ethic, nice folks

HANDYMEN/WOMEN

Fred Ford—425-530-6135:  See “remodeling contractors” for details

Paul Martin—206-935-0824; 206-931-7383 (cell):  does excellent work; licensed

David Park—206-526-0931:  See ;remodeling contractors” for details

Jesse Parry—206-579-0394; Truck63@clearwire.net: Rough carpenter—everything from sheds, worm bins, rot repair, and custom shelving to decks and fences; great price for carpentry

John Rollins—206-320-9726:  See “Remodeling Contractors” for details

Manny Rodriguez—206-953-2006; manrodrig@gmail.com:   terrific painter/handyman; reasonable prices, flexible about scheduling, very detailed about his work

Shoebotham and Son—206-935-8679; denrayshoe@q.com:  Seem to do everything, except exterior painting; very good job, professional, nice to deal with, reasonable cost.  Would recommend them for anything!

Jessie Young—206-601-4033:  Came when he said he would, worked hard all day, can do many things

HOME HEALTH CARE

Help Unlimited/ Care at Home—206-937-3100; www.helpunlimited.com and www.CareAtHomeSeattle.com:  Provides everything from home health care to other services for elders and others who need temporary or long-term assistance with daily life; “provided  immediate, compassionate and professional care for my father . . . you helped in so many ways.”

HOME INSPECTORS (PREVENTATIVE AND “TUNE-UPS”)

**Note:  Most home inspectors will likely perform this service.  This category included here specifically b/c the particular inspector was used and recommended in the listed capacity, not just for a buyer’s inspection.

Home Field Advantage (Susan Fields)—206-364-6440:  Excellent work, keen follow-up.  Includes indoor air quality and mold testing, working with a special tool to detect problems in the walls of the house.  Provides written follow-up report with easy-to-follow instructions for correcting problems.  (Client used inspector for a “5-yr tune-up” to see if there were issues that should be addressed.)

HOME ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT

The Composed Domain (Rebecca Ross)—206-546-8535; www.composedomain.com:  Helps you organize any and all aspects of your home and clear out the clutter!    Everything from practical help like developing a system for organizing and sorting papers and files to applying feng shui principles to help you organize/ arrange your space.  

Your Home, Inc. (Rebecca Granen)—206-719-1011; www.yourhomeinc.com:  Services include redecorating (using your existing furniture), downsizing, and getting ready to move (including helping with senior moves);   helps you choose what to keep and how to use it/ arrange it;  honors  the sentimental value of personal belongings and works with the client to create a nurturing and pleasing environment; can come in as a “consultant” and help you decide what changes you want to make and help you do it (i.e. sort through things, rearrange furniture, etc.)  or can come in and make the changes for you while you are gone from the house.  Different from staging a home for sale, b/c the goal is to help you with changes in your home that you will actually live with. 

HOUSECLEANERS

Absolutely Clean, Inc. (Dawn Darington)—206-546-0376:  Residential and commercial cleaning; non-toxic products.   Free estimates.   Reasonable prices.

Pamela Brummel—206-427-6454:  Does an excellent job and likes animals (rescues feral cats and has them spayed/neutered)

Evanete’s Cleaning Service (Evanete Russo)—206-679-0426:  “Best housecleaner I’ve ever had!”; provides her own cleaning equipment and supplies; uses “green” products; attention to detail (Also does the cleaning for Alki Congregational United Church of Christ)

Louii Ljubich—206-763-4670:  Hard-working, professional cleaner

Merry Maids—206-937-7083:  good, reliable cleaning at a reasonable price

INSULATION

Clean Crawls (Chris Strovas)—1-866-651-1700 or 206-447-9996;  www.cleancrawl.com:  cleans out attic and crawl spaces; repairs, replaces, or adds insulation as needed throughout home

LANDSCAPING/ YARDWORK

Giovanni Anichini, Ground Up—206-498-8835:  High quality organic compost, compost tea spray, organic fertilization, consultations for disease control, soil remediation; “the best compost in Seattle ”; Fabulous prices.

Alpine Tree Service Experts, Inc (Chris Price)—253-941-4990 (south end);  425-427-9450 (eastside);  800-526-6313

Big Trees, Inc.—866-313-2333 or 360-563-2700; www.bigtreesupply.com:  offer larger trees and bushes for sale, as well as planting and transplanting services; used them to plant 5 medium maples and to transplant an overgrown rhody; did all in less than an hour and were courteous and arrived on time

GreenXRoss Landscaping, Ken and Linda Hollis—206-505-9094; greenxross@gxlandscaping.com, www.gxlandscaping.com:  Amazingly different hardscape/landscape design using salvaged materials; build fences out of scrap metal and lumber that are works of art; great  horticulturists, too!

Heilman—206-255-5665

Kyle Henegar—206-293-1270:  Certified Arborist and Certified Hazardous Tree Risk Assessor, professional pruner/gardener;  fun person; will teach you how to do things yourself and let you work along with her, or will do it all for you; can provide occasional  or regular pruning and garden maintenance and also will help with garden design suggestions/ recommendations; West Seattle resident

Ken’s Yard Service—206-932-6223:  Have done a great job on several basic projects (spring clean-up, digging beds); Also have been happy with their lawn mowing/edging service; Pleasant to deal with, come when they say they will and do a good job; better-priced than some

Treecycle—206-789-0534:  tree pruning; the owner clearly loves trees, and they actually do recycle some of the trees they cut into furniture

PAINTERS

Matt Burton—206-713-3426:  Head painter at Seattle University; does side jobs, when available; not good if you are in a time crunch, as he has to fit you in when he can, but excellent if you have flexibility; can do interior and exterior.

Fred Ford—425-530-6135—see “remodeling contractors” for details

Jefco Painting—425-641-0302;  www.jefcopainting.com:    Got the job done promptly, very reasonably priced, did a great job; neighbors commented on how meticulous they were with prep work

Piece of Cake Painting (Mike Bloom)—206-276-6454:  Licensed, bonded, insured.  Will do big and small jobs.

Manny Rodriguez—206-953-2006:  See “Handymen/women” for details

Erick Thompson—206-937-8965:  Very responsible; excellent service and follow-up

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PEST CONTROL

Progressive Pest Solutions (Yohann)—206-444-6250

Willard’s Pest Control—425-820-1980; www.willardspestcontrol.com

PET CARE

Puget Pets (Ruth Zaslow)—206-354-7861; www.pugetpets.com:  Provides dog walks, pet visits, and overnight pet-sitting services; has a number of well-screened employees, so can provide services around the Puget Sound area; licensed, bonded, insured, and has been voted “Seattle’s Best Dog Walkers”

Walking the Paws (Diane Hoover)—206-359-1198:  Excellent pet-sitting in the West Seattle area; very trustworthy

PLUMBERS

Fischer Plumbing—206-783-4129 or 425-455-1310:  On-time, reliable, professional

Fox Plumbing—206-654-4990:  Very responsive, up-front, and fair about pricing; good when you need a plumber quickly

Green Planet Plumbing (Tyler Brown)—206-412-3926; www.greenplanetplumbing.com

Jake the Plumber (Terry)—206-527-0600

Joe the Plumber—206-285-2434:  honest, communicates well, pleasant, does a great job, and affordable

O’Neill Plumbing—206-932-5283:  Hard to schedule for short-term problems, but great for larger jobs; very knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with.  Made a sewer line replacement an easy project!

Raymark Plumbing and Sewer (Kevin Flynn)—206-440-9077:  Woman-owned business.  Kevin comes out to assess the problem/ bid job.  “He will do jobs no one else will do.”

Stalwart Plumbing (Paul)—206-713-0474:  smart, efficient, straightforward, reasonably priced, nice guy

REMODELING CONTRACTORS

Envision Homes (or Ecovision Homes) (Robert Burns)—206-356-7853; www.ecovisionhomes.com:  Green building contractor

James Fackler—206-963-3211; james@facklerconstruction.com:  large jobs, complete house remodels, add-ons; competitively priced for his league, which is fairly high-end, precision work for private homes; also does commercial construction; insists on excellent work from subcontractors; also knows artists who can do unique interior work; only downside is that he underestimates time it will take to complete job

Fred Ford, FCF Construction—425-530-6135; fcford.co@hotmail.com:   small remodeling jobs (bathroom or kitchen remodels, removing  or adding walls, adding a bay window, etc.), “jack-of-all-trades”, fixes anything; very reasonably priced; does a great job; good at estimating time and materials

David Park—206-526-0931:  Licensed and bonded general contractor who can do just about anything (big jobs or small jobs—all are OK); does absolutely amazing and meticulous work, goes way beyond the call of duty in assessing what is needed and communicating all the options, takes tremendous pride in the quality of his work;  pricing is very fair.

John Rollins—206-320-9726:  Intelligent, neat, pleasant to work with, high standards of workmanship;  remodeling and  “jack-of-all-trades” guy; “recommended by two people who know how to be picky”

Dan Steiglich—206-937-7290:  Did a deck and replaced a window

Bernie Williams (Forge Construction)—206-422-7821; www.forgeconstruction.com:  Wonderful and totally worth paying the extra $$ to have a general contractor;  Did a major job after a 2^nd floor water line broke and flooded much of the main floor of an old craftsman house, requiring major ceiling and wall repairs, among other things; also had him do some extra remodel projects at the same time, since the walls, ceilings, and floors were opened up anyway; attentive, responsive, kind, funny, on top of quality control issues, and seems to be good to his workers; uses good subcontractors, too

ROOFERS

A Better Roofing—206-935-1575

Anytime Roofing—206-229-6883

Ascent Roofing—206-932-2616

Fred Meyer Roofing—206-478-3733:  A real person, not the store!  Way less money than everyone else, nice to work with, did an excellent job.  No mess after they were done, either!

Johnson’s Roof Service—253-859-7777

Roof Doctor (Rick Larsen)—206-243-5637:  Good prices for new roofs.  Not sure if they do smaller repairs or just full roof replacement.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS

Swenson Say Faget (Gary MacKenzie)—206-443-6212:  Highly recommended by a top-notch architect (see Tyler Engle under “architects”) who has used him for 20 years.

TILE/HEARTH REPAIR

Tile Restoration—206-633-4866:  Very good; were consulted for a hearth repair and came up with a less-costly solution to the problem

VETERINARIANS

Greentree Animal Hospital ( West Seattle )—206-932-5593:  Went to them for a 2^nd opinion re: my dog; my dog was much calmer and less nervous here, so switched to them

Lien Animal Clinic ( West Seattle )—206-932-1133:  Caring, willingness to explain the details, expertise

WATER DAMAGE

1-800-Water Damage—206-381-3041; www.1800waterdamage.com; did a great job of coming out to “triage” the situation when a 2^nd floor water line broke and flooded the main floor/walls/ceiling.  Set up heaters and hoses to dry things out and prevent further damage/ mold, etc., until the situation could be more fully dealt with.

WATERPROOFING/DRAINAGE

Waterproofing Plus, Inc—206-784-2299:  Nice folks, good work, honest about what needs to be done, reasonable pricing

WINDOW CLEANING

Norman Husser, Husser Window Cleaning—206-527-2860:  Licensed and insured; can do high windows; also cleans gutters while he’s up there, if you want him to

WINDOWS

Cherry Creek Windows and Doors—206-547-4162:  Beautiful wood windows; great for replacing windows in old houses to match the original windows; not cheap, but very nice quality

Seattle Stained Glass—206-633-2040:  Good resource for replacing glass panes in old casement windows; does not have to be a stained glass window

WOOD FLOORS

Oak Floors of Greenbank, Inc.—206-623-9367;  wide variety of wood flooring at reasonable prices; also refinish and repair hardwood floors

Puget Sound Hardwood Floors—425-869-7974 or 800-807-7974; www.hardwoodguy.com :  Install new or refinish existing floors