Hernandez Handyman

M W.

I have been looking for Oscar for over 20 years and I finally found him here. He started with a job that I paid two other 'handy-people' to fix. They each spent a couple of hours working on a door to my yard that kept swelling to the point that I couldn't open it. I contacted Oscar and he came by the next day and immediately figured out what the problem was, fixed it, and thanked *me* for contacting him. Now he's working on a 2-page list of jobs (some small and some not-so) and is almost done. Oscar is a professional; he works quickly and thoroughly and he can do most everything 'house.' He referred me to others for two jobs out of his area. He's also a family man; how sweet. Oscar is the whole package, and I look forward to working with him for years to come.

PS: Oscar is much cuter than his picture.

Diane D.

Oscar goes the extra mile, every time! He is very professional, has good ideas for changes to make my home more efficient and comfortable, and is a gentleman.
My little boy loves him; bonus!
He is very popular and therefore VERY busy, so it's good to email him as soon as you have a batch of things you want done.
His rates are reasonable, and he's quick.
Diane

Kate R.

Extremely happy with Oscar. He replied to my enquiry within hours and offered me several time-slots the same week. He arrived dot on time, carried out the work competently, and is a nice guy. Would thoroughly recommend!

Wona M.

I have hired Oscar multiple times over the past year, to fix all kinds of things around the house. He is so capable and very very efficient. I've hired other handymen who lolly-gagged around and in the end didn't do such great work. Oscar is head and shoulders above the rest!

The first time I hired Oscar, I gave him a long punch list. Having gotten used to lollygagger handymen in the past, I expected him to take all day. When I checked in on him about an hour later, I was amazed to find he'd already gotten through half my punch list. I couldn't believe it! And the quality of the work was superb.

Since then, I've hired him every few months for various projects, and I'm always so impressed with his work. He does carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting -- you name it! He is also very honest, clean, and conscientious. Because of his track record, he has gotten very very busy and that is the only downside. I have referred him to several friends who are equally happy with his work. I may be shooting myself in the foot referring him, because he gets busier and busier by the day it seems, but he deserves all the work that's coming to him.

Bayard W.

Oscar came and helped us with a wide variety of work from the simple (installing towel bars) to the more complex (replacing fixtures, sink faucets). I cannot recommend him highly enough.

He is prompt, technologically current (emails, texts, tracks all his hours electronically, etc) is conscientious (took his shoes off when he came into our apartment, patient with our curious young daughter), and most importantly he is extremely capable. I will continue to use him and expect to tackle bigger and bigger projects with him.

If you need a reliable handyman for the big and small jobs, Oscar is a great choice!

Allison P.

Oscar really helped us out! We had a few small things that needed repair: clogged sink, loose faucet, bent window screen frame, and a clothes dryer on strike. I called or emailed about 5 other handy-people I found on Yelp. They all said they wouldn't go the work. I think cuz it was too small potatoes for them. Oscar got back to me within a day of leaving him a voice mail and scheduled over email. We needed a weekend appt and he scheduled us for the next Saturday, showed on time and got the work done within the hour, just like he said. We'll definitely call Oscar again!

Janna W.

Oscar is the real deal. We had a time-sensitive project that he was able to finish in less the time than we thought (on a Saturday, no less).

He's professional, punctual, good at communicating, works quickly, and charges a fair price. Highly recommended.

Kevin G.

This guy has no respect for his potential clients as he committed to doing a job at my home, said he was getting the materials then never returned. Didn't have the decency or business mind to call back and turn down the job or answer our calls. He wasted our time with his phony act. I was able to get the needed materials at our local hardware store and found a great handyman from Bernal Heights to do the job. I should have listened to the other reviews as we just needed a simple fan installed and he couldn't do it.

Christine H.

Oscar is extremely good, efficient, clean, and does professional high quality, detail oriented work, which makes him extremely busy. It can be hard to get hold of him but it is worth it. Rates are very reasonable and we are glad we were able to get him to do our work -- minor repairs, redoing trim.

Sir Y.

It took me a long while to figure out if Oscar deserves a three or four star review. I settled on four stars, because he does good work at a reasonable price. But it could easily have been a three (or lower--read more on that below).

Finding the right handyman, I think, is never easy no matter where you live. Finding one who is responsive, on-time, priced well, and does a good job is practicable impossible. When it was clear we set a definitive time to meet (more on this later), Oscar was on-time. That happened a couple of times--once to get him an understanding of the tasks; the other to do the actual work. His price was $45 per hour for labor; the parts that were needed were ones we agreed on before the work was done and he provided a receipt. Given my investigation around these parts, that hourly fee for someone skilled in a few key areas is OK. The repair work looks very good, and I have no problems with the quality and cleanliness. Indeed, I should point out that he probably saved me a needless electrician visit by catching an issue that was stumping me (a circuit breaker that had not completely been reset).

So. All that was good, and should have earned him in the range of a four or five. But the timeliness of communcation was simply almost unnacceptable. He apologized for it a couple times, and I appreciated that. This was to set up meetings, to confirm times, and even to discuss future business. And his inability to respond in a timely manner to communcations (it did not matter if those were pages, emails, or calls), I think, is both due to the need to spend some time with this family combined with doing lots of work for other jobs (12 hour days, I think). I do not fault the guy for wanting to spend time with the family, and my items were definitely not an emergency. But good/timely responses can make all the difference. I think his is a single owner/proprietorship, and maybe this is just par for the course with handymen--the better they are, the better reviewed they get, and the more trouble they having keeping up with everything. But beware--his problem in this area had me almost (twice) just giving the job to someone else and writing a more negative review here. But if I did that, I would not have found out that he really does do a good job (at least he did for me).