Alex’s Home Solutions

I called Alex to help me assemble some furniture and he was kind enough to advise me to look specifically for furniture assembly services, which are more cost-​effective than a licensed builder. His professionalism and thoughtfulness in assisting me to find a solution for this small job went above my expectations.

We called Alex for two panels of fence that needed repair or possible replacement. He returned the phone call within an hour. Alex asked my husband to send him pictures of the fence, then he gave a ballpark estimate. He came the next day on time and spent the entire afternoon repairing the fence. He is truly a solutionist, he would try to salvage the existing fence boards as much as possible and only use new boards when absolutely necessary. He fixed the fence nicely and the charge is within the range of the initial estimate. We definitely will go to him for future home repair needs!

Alex is great!!! He just finished working on two sheds on the side of the house and he did amazing job! He is very knowledgeable and gets things done fast but very precise. He asked us what are we looking for and he also gave us some great advice-​we actually did what he advised and we are very happy with the end result. In addition I asked him to put together a sandbox for my son. The sandbox was pre-​made and only needed to be put together but it was missing the bottom!!! so sand would just sit on the grass. Alex build a small deck and we placed the sandbox on top of it and now sand is in the sandbox few inches above the ground. My son loves his new sandbox and is happy to play with it.
He also fixed the fence, made and installed a gate and fix holes in wall and painted the wall.
Alex is very good and detail oriented. I would highly recommend him you will be very happy with end result :) call him

Alex helped me with a very tricky stove and electric range hood installation, and he really went above and beyond the call of duty for that. He’s assisted me with electrical and plumbing repair and installation jobs as well. Alex is highly skilled in a variety of construction disciplines and takes pride in his craft… He’s a genuine pleasure to work with.

Alex is responsive and very resourceful. Last year he installed a laundry sink in our garage on a short notice. What I really liked is that he quoted a price which included him bringing in everything, so I did not have to buy any supplies — he got quality goods and though he had to spend an extra hour and supplies to be able to overcome an issue with our pipes and wall access, he did not charge any extra amount. Being pregnant at that time, I really appreciated the fact that I did not have to buy any supplies myself. Our sprinkler pipe burst over the weekend. After a temporary fix. I called Alex, and he came at the end of his day and was honest and unlike other plumbers/​handyman did not give a quote but first tried to see if the fix was good and whether any work was needed. He spent over an hour showing us what was needed (a shut off valve which was never installed by the builder) and also reviewed some other small projects. He did not charge us for any of the time he spent looking at our pipes etc. When we had less than adequate water pressure, Alex came back late at night to fix the issue and did not charge us even though it was outside work hours. I plan on calling him once I have a list of items to fix so that his time is adequately spent. He is very good and knowledgeable about all aspects of home (plumbing, electricity, repairs, installation).

Professionalism, resourcefulness, and a job well done. This is what we have come to expect when we hire Alex. He just did a great job painting our bathroom and replacing its fixtures. He also fixed several things around the house. He is reliable and we will hire him again, for sure!

Alex can repair or fix any aspect of our home with efficiency and expertise. He has very good judgement and thinks of the most efficient and safest way to do things. Our neighborhood loves him because of these things as well as for his kind manner and professionalism.
He has remodeled or repaired many aspects of our home over the past 12 years and he has years of experience in every aspect of general contracting. His prices are fair also. He works efficiently and quickly because he knows the right way to do things in addition to having remarkable intelligence and ethics.
We would not embark on a project without his honest assessment and recommendations.

Alex is a one man band when it comes to home remodeling; he’s a licensed contractor – but wait!– there’s more. Alex is qualified as an electrician, plumber, cabinetmaker, etc., but what makes his service special is a unique talent to bring aesthetic, practical, and inventive solutions to home renovation issues. Alex has a knack for verbalizing his creative ideas. He will tell you which are the best materials, and the most economic vendors. We even made a trip together to Home Depot so he could show me various items for our recessed LED lighting project. Alex visualizes and then recommends the most appropriate interior (and exterior) design solutions, with a good sense of what makes color and style sense. He has good relationships with subcontractors that specialize in various skilled trades, such as: hardwood flooring, crown moulding installation, complete interior painting, and more. He closely supervises his subs, making sure all details are professionally executed. Now that we’re done with the renovations, including replacement of many outdated components, it almost feels like we are living in a new house, thanks to Alex’s work. BTW, don’t worry that he’s over-​priced. Alex’s bids are very fair, and in the end he provides lots of added value. Also, there are no petty extra charges for mid-​stream changes.

Alex installed a new kitchen faucet for me the other day and a few other light install items. Alex was the only person I called who actually answered the phone right away, and he was able to replace the faucet the same day. It helped that the weather was bad (he said that) so his schedule had some openings.
Alex was punctual, professional and did the job well. He also noted some unsafe things in my house/​yard and took care of them too (at no additional cost). Alex’s price was higher than the other two handymans I had called, but there was the benefit of same day help and also throwing in about 40 extra minutes of work for free. So in my mind, it balanced out.
I will call Alex again if I need some quick fixes around the house (but I did note on his card he is also a Lic GC, General Contractor, so he can handle larger jobs).

I can’t comment enough on his professionalism.
It was outstanding!
We had a number of projects that we wanted to hire a handyman for. No one would even took the time to call us back. I left Alex a message, and he promptly called me back within an hour.
It turned out that he was on vacation from work, but he took the time to return my call. and given my experience with contractors, especially handymen, that gets a great rating if you ask me.
He scheduled the work to be done for next day and told me exactly what We need to do. I would definitely consider Alex for future projects around the house.
He is professional, fast, corteous and very reasonable in his rates. It has been a pleasure to work with him.

Great service, excellent value and top quality workmanship.
Alex handled a wide variety of repairs and renovations to my house, everything from safely fixing a potentially very dangerous problem with the spring in the garage door opener to repairing sheet rock damaged by a water leak and provided great recommendations on what to do and how to do it that were less expensive in some cases than what I thought had to be done. Everything was done very well, on time and on budget.
I cannot recommend him highly enough.

Our house had a 70’s era kitchen — linoleum floors, formica counters, builder grade cabinets, and 50’s vintage wiring. Alex transformed it into a sleek, modern, and very usable space, all for an unexpectedly reasonable price.
Alex gave great advice on what was worth spending on and where we could save a bit. He lined us up with beautiful granite countertops that were priced substantially less than anywhere else we looked.
He did a meticulous installation of our new cabinets, dishwasher (he’s also a plumber), sink, countertop, and range hood.
The hood was a real challenge and testament to Alex’s creativity. We have an Eichler style house, which makes many renovations a huge pain. Not having attic ruled out an island mount, and a cutout between the kitchen and living room caused all sorts of problems with wall mounting. Most of wall mounted hoods are screwed into the wall at the bottom of the hood — not an option in our case — and are unfinished in the back. We were at a loss.
Alex devised and built an ingenious housing on the wall for the hood. Even better, he extended it in such a way that he was able to route the exhaust out the hole used by the pre-​existing ventilating fan, and he added an out of the way outlet that we’ll use to power some accent lighting. Now that it’s finished, the entire assembly looks like a natural part of the house, and we were able to avoid cutting a new hole in the roof for the duct (and paying $ 700 to a roofer).
He was great about stopping by to address a few minor issues that came up after the installation.
One thing to know about working with Alex: he has strong opinions about the right way to do things, and he’s not afraid to share them. It’s best to listen to him — the few times we chose not to follow his advice we later regretted it.
He’s a stickler for quality, and he’s unhappy with work that’s not up to standard. When he started working with us, he expressed concerns about the work a flooring contractor had recently done and came off as a bit grumpy. We later discovered (to our chagrin) that he was completely on target.
In hindsight, the one thing we’d have done differently is to have had Alex’s people do the rewiring of the kitchen as well as the installations. We went with another electrician, as we were having some other electrical work done in the house, and that led to all sorts of headaches.
We’ll be giving Alex a call when it’s time to redo our bathroom!

Alex did a great job aligning difficult-​to-​work-​with doors and rewiring speakers. He was also very responsive and communicative. Most importantly, he also told me about what would not be a good idea to do, at least at this time.
He gets 5 stars for his craftsmanship and integrity.

He’s nice. He’s on time. He’s obsessive about getting it right. His rates are fair. He cleans up and gives good advice. I highly recommend him. After doing some small to medium size fix it jobs, I’m thinking of having him do some major remodeling work. He is a fully licensed contractor. What can I say? Dogs love him and that’s just confirmation that this man is one of the good ones. You won’t be sorry you chose him.

I spent about half an hour trying to determine the location of a periodic smoke alarm beep, indicating a low battery, only to discover that the alarm was placed in quite possibly the most inaccessible location in the history of home building (about 20 feet high, at the top of a diagonal sky light shaft, with a narrow opening at the ceiling height, and no way to rest a ladder against the wall, hidden behind some translucent plastic panels). After twisting my brain trying to figure out how in the world I would reach the smoke alarm to replace the battery, I decided to enlist the help of a handyman, and ran a search on Unilocal.
After reading the great reviews for Alex’s Home Solutions, I called Alex and left a brief message. Alex returned my call within a few hours, and offered to check out the situation on his way home from a full day’s work at another job. After he arrived and assessed the situation, we both agreed that the placement/​location of the smoke alarm was absolutely ridiculous. Due to the bizarre skylight shaft angle, we had to jerry-​rig a ladder set up which caused Alex to risk life and limb to reach the smoke alarm, but reach it he did!
A sane person probably would have walked away from the task without trying, but Alex mentioned he doesn’t like leaving people with their problems, and enjoys a challenge.
Alex was absolutely great, as others have mentioned here, and I highly recommend him.

To begin, Alex is very responsive via phone. I left him 2 voicemails and he called me back within a few hours both times! He’s very polite on the phone. I had high hopes for him.
When he came to install our water filtration system, he arrived on time, politely removed his shoes (!! who does that?!) and went to work. He’s very knowledgable and experienced and finished the job in 40 minutes. He is very patient and took the time to explain the system to us. He was also willing to look at other minor home issues for us. At the end of the job, he wrote us an invoice. Very legit! The quote he gave us was competitive as well. We are very pleased.
He’s a general contractor and is is apparently on the recommended vendor list for Los Altos realtors, which I did not know about until he told us. SCORE!
We’ll definitely be giving Alex a call for other issues we have in the future.

Alex’s company is perfectly titled because he did find SOLUTIONS for the many problems of our home. It seems there is no problem he couldn’t fix.
Our bathroom was smelling of mold and the flooring was cracking. Everything in it was old and cheap and breaking. He found where the shower enclosure was leaking and fixed it, and he put in a beautiful new tile floor and cabinet and toilet and fan. I love that he gave us advice about little things that matter like caulking color and placement of towel hooks. He has a great eye for detail — our new cabinet would’ve made our light fixture placement off-​center, so he anticipated that and was able to move the fixture over a few inches. Now it’s centered. He also went to Home Depot to find a transition strip of oak to lay between the hallway and the bathroom. It matches perfectly and looks polished compared to how the old flooring met the hallway.
To install the bathroom fan, he ran into trouble due to a lack of crawl space above the bathroom, but he kept trying until he found a way to safely ventilate the bathroom using a long duct and an existing roof vent. Someone else would’ve just given up and told us it couldn’t be done. The new fan was smaller than the old one and our new cabinet was shorter than the old one, so he had to do some patching and the walls look great!
He’s creative and positive when it comes to approaching problems. It must be frustrating to have to fix problems of the faulty handiwork of people who have worked on the house for the last 60 years (including my dear husband who installed a doorbell plate slightly crooked), but he keeps trying until he can figure out the solution. I told him he must use some sort of MAGIC because he keeps finding solutions to so many seemingly impossible problems!
Plus, he’s just a very nice guy and very pleasant to work with. He’s been very accomodating when it comes to our crazy schedule. And his pricing is more than fair; in fact, I think he hasn’t charged us as much as he should. We’ll keep calling him for all of our fix-​it needs and love referring him to others. We’ll also use him as our point person for our rental property since he’s so trustworthy and careful in his work.

Fast and reasonable. Thanks, Alex.
Will definitely call again.

Alex was fantastic.
I emailed him pics of 4 or 5 «fix-​it» areas of my home, and he was there the next day to repair them all. Things I’d been putting off forever (putting up shelves, fixing towel racks, repairing the outdoor fence, realigning a bedroom door so the lock works properly, etc.) were done well and quickly.
I won’t hesitate to use Alex again for our future home improvement needs.

It’s been so pleasure working with Alex, I highly recommend this company to all my client& Unilocal member that I have been done work for them.
1.On time
2.Honest
3.Reasonable
4. clean
5.Fast
6.Responsible
These are all positive point that Alex provide for his services.