Home Problem Solving

Home Problem Solving


Air Conditioning | Appliance Repair | Attorneys | Blinds | Carpeting | Cleaning | Electricians | Floors | Furniture | General Contractors | Heating | Home Depot | Inspectors | Movers | Painters | Pest Control/Termites | Plumbers | Post Office | Real Estate Agents

What is this page?

This page contains a list of contractors and other people who help solve problems of home ownership in my vicinity of Maryland. It's a personal list based primarily on personal experience -- I think it's always better to use someone for whom you've gotten a first-person recommendation! Almost all of these people were originally recommended to me by someone I know; at most, by a friend of someone I know. (I will not add recommendations unless the degrees-of-separation between the recommender and myself is 2 or less.) If "Recommended By" says "Philip", that means I've used them myself. Consumer's Checkbook is an on-line source with more extensive information on area contractors.

Although I've provided information here that's accurate to the best of my ability, everything here is a matter of opinion and you should use it at your own risk. If you have comments you'd like to add (especially negative experiences with anyone listed here!) please contact me, and feel free to also send me recommendations (especially for categories that are not represented here).


Air Conditioning

Appliance Repair

Attorneys

Blinds

Carpeting

See: Floors.
See: Cleaning.

Cleaning

Electricians

Floors

Furniture

General Contractors

Heating

See: Air Conditioning.

Home Depot

(Last updated: before December 2003)
Need I even bother? Absolutely indispensible. The one in College Park (just off 495 at Rte 1) was open 24 hours but I'm not sure that's still true. At the new one on Georgia Ave (north a few miles past Randolph Road) there's a really helpful guy known as "Mr. Bill".

Inspectors

Movers

Painters

Pest Control

Plumbers

Post Office

Real Estate Agents