O’Donnell Plastering Inc.

this review is strictly based on the corporate office and how they handle legal business. Nothing rated is based on any work done.
The corporate office does not implement orders for child support from their employees. If and when they do the garnishment, the payment is not paid to the state for disbursement for an average of 6 – 8 weeks. This puts the non custodial party in arrears and stops the children from receiving financial assistance from the NCP that was ordered in a court of law. Clearly payroll cannot understand the concept to mail in payments when they are taken out weekly. Child support reps have called to clarify legal responsibility from the employer and DCSS was told by payroll that if they were to mail out a weekly payment, it would be «too difficult». Employer is responsible for sending in prompt payment once the employee has been garnished. O’Donnell employees are paid weekly.
No business should engage in activity that deprives children from receiving court ordered support. A custodial party should be able to budget and count on consistent payments.

The work and the Quality of the work being done is below the common standers set by the Industries, the only thing that one must keep an eye on is the fact they can make a straight walls without waves in it… the plasters of today are no more the synthetic workers with no more talent then what they have learn from each other… And the games and clique are real in this outfit… business is about making money and making money is business, when work get slow they will slow down too drag it out, i on the other would make them work as if there were no tomorrow. set up crew for production and fire those that fail to know the tools of there trade! it beyond me! how a plaster can put a wave in a four by four box and make it wavy. Mr O’Donnell is a good and Noble man, but I would hold the Union 300 accountable for the lack of Professionalism of the trade… remember chet start out doing shacks in my day they were call slop artist. there are very few I can call plasters in his outfit the rest are want to be’s…Note on every contract it stated the work must be done in a workmanship like manner… this can keep them om top of there game as it should in any business.

Top-​quality stucco (plastering) and top-​quality service! Normally O’Donnell Plastering, Inc. works on large commercial projects. But when I was looking for a contractor to do a small (to them) project, they were able to do so. I was sick and tired of repainting the whole house every few years because the front of the house had wood siding that would peel (from the sun), resulting in wood damage that would also have to be repaired. I began contacting contractors, and ROB FISHER (the project manager) was very, very helpful in providing answers to my many email questions.
It took a couple of weeks for me to get info and to talk to other contractors, as well as a city building inspector that I know (he said O’Donnell has an excellent reputation for quality and he’s never failed their jobs). So finally we started the job. It’s not like the little remodel jobs I’ve had done around the house. This was a big one, to me.
If you do this, the homeowner has to go to the city to get the building permit and to call the inspector (twice — at the start and at the end).
The first crew performed the first part of the job was removing all of the wood siding. Next was the addition of paper and then wire lathing (like big chicken wire).
The second crew came and put on the stucco in 2 layers. First was the brown coat (color) and I had to water that with the hose. Second was the ‘scratch’ coat, where they textured the surface slightly.
Finally the third crew came in to put on the finish coat — you can choose colors, and we chose one that was close to the 3 sides of our house. Not a perfect match, but we didn’t want to wait weeks for a custom color to come in. Then, we wanted a finish that matched the rest of the 3 sides of our house. It matched.
The first crew came back to put on the gutters and do some touch up work. Rob came back twice to do some finishing touch ups to the house.
It was a long involved process, but we are very happy with the results. You don’t have to paint stucco unless you want to. Because the color is so close, we may wait a year or two to have the whole house painted. The cost to do only one side (the front) of the house was probably twice what the whole house would have cost to be painted. But, our insurance savings make up for that in 10 years! Our homeowners insurance AND our earthquake insurance was reduced by an amount, that when we calculated it by 10 years, covered the cost of the entire job.
I’m attaching photos of the process and want to recommend O’Donnell Plastering. If you are lucky enough to get them when they have a crew available between their big jobs, get them!
By the way, neighbors driving by stopped and tried to hire these guys for small jobs around their house. But these are UNION workers and only work for their employer. They were polite to the questions, but gave them their boss’ number. These are not ‘day workers’ and do a responsible, quality job — in my opinion.
Now we get a lot of compliments from our neighbors and the house looks great, and feels comfortable. A homeowner who has properties told me that I probably added 20K to the value of the property!