Matthew in Toronto

We have used Shine for 4 or so seasons to clean our house's many gutters that receive a copious amount of leaf litter from the various mature trees in our yard and area. The house is tall and it's a big job. Every time Shine and its employees rise to the occasion. This year, Pablo and Jose did a fantastic job of removing the leaves, flushing our downspouts, and bagging everything up nicely curbside. They both were punctual, professional, friendly, courteous, and diligent--like all Shine employees we've interacted with. Same as every year, we are very happy with the work that Shine provided. Kudos!

Philip and his crew at Pmt Home Services came out on a nice, sunny day to clean our tall-ish two-story home's many exterior windows (30+). They did a fantastic job. Philip and his team are super friendly and easy to work with. We can HIGHLY recommend, as we will definitely use them again. Thanks, Pmt. Matt

You can read my previous review of Shine and see that we are regular, satisfied customers of Shine's eaves cleaning. In fact, we have them booked again for this year (2024)! Would highly recommend Shine to owners of all types of houses throughout the GTA.

Based on the very positive HomeStars reviews for Shine, my wife and I hired them to clean the gutters on our tricky, tall, steeply-sloped roof. Shine came through for us, doing a great job. We can assuredly recommend them to other homeowners in the GTA. We dealt with 4 individuals at Shine, on-site or through text. Dustin handled our questions about ladder height, etc. and took the job deposit. Kendra handled scheduling. Mike and Mike provided the hard part: the labor. Everyone was pleasant and good at their jobs. Mike and Mike worked hard and diligently, cleaning out our very mucked-up gutters. They're both very pleasant chaps who don't shy away from tough work. Impressive. Good HomeStars experience all-around. Cheers...

As you can see from the pics, Magenta vastly improved the look of our house. Vastly improved it. Rodney and his crew removed our old, dead, weed-strewn lawn and laid down a beautiful layer of deep-green Kentucky blue. Rodney answered our many questions, gave helpful tips on taking care of the new lawn, and cleaned up the work site completely. Everything now looks fantastic and we are very pleased. We would highly recommend Magenta to anyone in the GTA needing lawn removal and new sod installation. Rodney was pleasant to deal with during the quote process, the job itself, and communications in-between. The crew was friendly too. The pictures tell the quality of the job Magenta did, so I'll end by urging readers to take a look at those. A truly beautiful finished product!

Lui and PT Lawn has been our worst contractor experience ever. Cancelled our job the day before he was supposed to install, leaving us completely in the lurch with new sod scheduled to be installed mere days later. Here are the facts of our experience with Lui: 1. We were laying down a brand new lawn, so we wanted a sprinkler install that would be between the old sod removal and the new sod installation. We told Luis (and everyone who quoted the sprinkler job) all of this. 2. We formally hired Luis on 9/11/2020 for a 9/25/2020 sprinkler install. The 9/25 date was Luis' idea, based on his work calendar and our preference above. On the same day, we also paid him a 50% deposit. 3. Luis wrote my wife (not me) on the morning of 9/24 to say that he could not do the install, since he had not been able to secure a gas-line locate. Keep in mind, Luis had a full two weeks to secure locates for a sprinkler-install date that he chose! 4. Based on the locate history that Lui sent us, it appears Lui waited a whole week to initiate the locate requests! Wasted a whole week, and then pulls out of the job because he can't get locates!! That is the behavior of nobody I would want to do business with! Now, Luis will probably claim that he can't control when a locate request is satisfied, but we have pictures and records that prove he had both plenty of runway and that he wasted time in securing any necessary locates. Further, he didn't try to work with us for another install date whatsoever. Just wrote my wife (again, not me) to slink away from the 9/25 install date, leaving us completely out in the cold!! A sprinkler install is a big job, for which you need a company you can trust. PT Lawn did not prove trustworthy for us. Update (12/12/2020): Lui is now threatening to sue me over a factually correct and legitimate review. Everyone considering sprinkler work should think about if this is the kind of contractor that you want to do business with. I know my answer... Another trick that Lui tried to pull with us regarding this review was asking for the paper copy of our quote/invoice back, so that he could allege with Homestars that we were not a true customer. I suspect that Lui may have tried to suppress negative reviews via this trick before (my opinion). Unfortunately for him, we kept copies of everything and still maintain copies of everything...

Royal Green and Nino have been our best hire off of Homestars, hands down! What an amazing sprinkler service! Through the whole thing, Nino and his team were fantastic--friendly, prompt, dependable, experienced, you name it... We hired Royal Green to install a new sprinkler system on our large-ish lot after our old lawn was removed and before the new sod was installed. Nino laid down a great network that covers our mix of lawn, ditch, and landscape beds. Royal Green works with top equipment (Hunter, Rainbird, Rachio, etc.) to get the job done. Further, Nino patiently answered every question we had (and we had many). Truly top notch service from a dedicated business owner. Everyone should strongly consider Royal Green for their sprinkler needs. Thank you, Nino!!