Kennedy Contracting

For several years, my wife and my neighbors and I have had a big problem in our San Francisco three-​flat. It had to do with water leakage from a first-​floor patio down into the ceiling of our under-​building garage.
Gary Kennedy fixed it. Quickly, single-​handedly, and much more cheaply than anticipated.
With all respect to Jail F’s bad experience, Gary Kennedy did a wonderful job for us.
One one-​star review from Jail, and one five-​star review from me.
As with everything else in life, it goes to show you never can tell.

We hired Gary to do a few small jobs around our place. Each time things seemed to be done more half-​assed than the last and we would have to call him out to come back and fix his mistakes. These were pretty minor and he would come without argument and take care of problems, so we decided to give him a shot at a bigger job and hired him to put in our front walkway. This was a mistake. He botched it, it’s uneven and done so poorly that we are not even comfortable letting him fix it because he clearly doesn’t know what he is doing. In fact, he didn’t even build the walkway the way we requested or discussed. He completely disregarded any conversation we had about it and just did whatever the hell he wanted. This may be because Gary will take anything you hire him to do regardless of how well he can do it or if he knows what he is doing. I am not saying this to be a jerk. He flat out told me that after this last mess.
He says he is good at decks. Maybe he is, but if you hire him I really recommend getting references and ask him for pictures or examples of the work he has completed so you can be sure he can handle what he is taking on.