Hernandez Handyman

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).

Peter G.

I was referred to Oscar by my good friend who used his services for various upgrading jobs to his new home. First off- he was late for our initial consultation meeting at my house. I overlooked that due to my friends referral. He then claimed that he would get my painting job done In 4 days since I was planning on moving some furniture in. Well- come the third day- I just went to visit to see how he was progressing and he hadn't even started! I immediately called his cell and he gave me a song and dance about his wife being sick. I accepted his excuse even though I scolded him for not even calling me to update the status of the job. I was the one who called him and that's truly unacceptable. He then promised to get the job done the following weekend but of course that never happened either. I called him once again to cancel the whole deal and asked for my piece of wood which he took in order to match the paint with. Can you believe this guy actually told me to come get it from his house in San Francisco??? I live in palo alto. What a terrible businessman!
I called my friend and told him the whole story and he offered to call him and get my wood piece back---- well- it's been 4 months now and my kitchen is still missing a top drawer. Ummmm- so NO. I would definitely not recommend this con artist.

Abir M.

I hired Oscar to do a few random things in my kitchen. He was friendly, on time, and his rates are very reasonable. He is highly recommended. He is now my go-to guy for all my handyman needs.

BB G.

Oscar has done a number of jobs for me and my building from installing a light, to hanging pictures, to painting the outside. He is always reliable, can come through in a pinch (e.g. came back right away to do something I had accidentally failed to ask for originally), does a really nice job, and is super friendly and nice to deal with.

Tommy P.

I hired Oscar to build some shelves in my storage room. What he built ended up looking more like nice furniture than generic storage shelving. I was really impressed with the quality of his work, and his price was very reasonable. I will definitely use him again.

Alex L.

I had a break-in at our office and needed an emergency repair of several doors that had been kicked in. I called Oscar and within 2 hours he was the office making repairs. He did a great job and was flexible about the timing (as it was an office space he had to come and work in the evenings to get the job done). The price was very reasonable and he's also a very guy. I would highly recommend him, especially if you need something done immediately.

Dave G.

Hired Oscar for a job to install a new vent fan in my downstairs bathroom. It seems he just dropped the job after initially providing a quote. There was no follow up, despite my wife and I continually reaching out to him via phone and email. I thought he would be reliable based upon the other Yelp reviews and he was definitely not. I am searching for another handyman now to complete this job. I was not impressed with Oscar at all.