JC & Sons Home Improvement Corp

Contacted JC & Sons for vinyl siding and concrete driveway replacement. Large home and property. Carlos appeared on scheduled appointment date and we discussed scope of projects. I requested specific materials, i.e., Mastic Quest 4.5″ Dutch Lap 16′ vinyl siding, Pro Bead soffits, 1″ DOW Super Tuff R 4’x8’ rigid insulation, Tyvek house wrap, and Mid-​America window mantels and dentil trim. He asked me to go inside while he measured. I declined his offer. He did not climb roof to measure windows to size requested mantels or trim. Gave the appearance of performing ground measurements and then left residence. Very short visit. He advised that I would have a quote in a few days. I texted him my e-​mail address despite his not asking for it. I attempted to contact him and left numerous texts with no response. Two and one-​half weeks later, no response. Draw your own conclusions. Lacking professional, common and simple courtesy of advising home owner he would be unable to undertake project. Proceed with caution. Caveat emptor.

We needed to concrete our backyard are a while now and finally decided to find people to complete the job. We started looking around May 2015 and found about 5 companies. JC and sons was the only company who actually called us back and made an actual start date appointment. The other companies gave us estimates that were either okay or just unreasonably high. JC gave a really reasonable rate and were very professional. On the first day on the job JC’S landscape crew came and began to work immediately to clean out all the unwanted bushes, plants and a tree. They completed the entire task without any problems or complaints. Afterwards, the concrete guys came in and in two days they finished their job. Last but not least, another set of guys came in to put new siding on the garage and install new gutters. I loved the fact that JC had different crew members completing different jobs and all were very professional. Even though Carlos, I believe he’s one of the owners, didn’t come he left the job in good hands.
One recommendation I would make is to know how to speak Spanish because most of the workers only speak Spanish. Overall, I am impressed with the completed job.

The owner came by and gave a very reasonable quote, which I agreed to and signed a contract. We agreed on a date two weeks from the signed contract date for the work to be performed. In the meantime, he was supposed to revisit with some samples for the siding, but never showed. After making several phone calls, he never returned with any samples nor contacted me to reschedule. Few days past the agreed date on which the work was supposed to be performed, I called to inquire why he hasn’t showed and his response was that he completely forgot about the job, like what? How unprofessional! Moreover, I agreed for a second meet and he did not show up the second time either. Though he gives a competitive price, it really has no value if he ‘forgets’ to do the work. I was on a strict timeline due to insurance requirement, and his unprofessional ways ended up costing me time and money. I absolutely do not recommend his company.

Carlos did my house and it looks great and it was done at a fair price and most important he’s licensed and insured

My grandmother used to own a home in Astoria Queens. Snow had damaged her roof a few years back and she had a lot of leaks. I wasn’t sure whether to just have a new roof put in or just have it repaired. I called JC to get a quote and he was able to come out the same day. He was honest in what seemed like the best solution to keep costs low. His guys installed new shingles in one section that was very badly damaged and just did some touch up work on the other section (saving me a lot).
Needless to say we sold the house years later but were able to make a selling point about the new roof. I think it added more value on paper when I sold the house than what I paid for the installation. So it worked out well.
I ran in to Juan Carlos the other day. I thanked him and told him about how it helped us sell the house. He was very happy to hear that, yet felt upset that more of his happy customers don’t write reviews. So I decided to help him out.
I don’t know what happened to the other people who gave poor reviews but I think people need to be realistic about price vs quality vs time (pick 2)

BE VERY LEERY AND CAREFUL IF YOU HIRE THESE GUYS TO DO WORK FOR YOU!!! I hired Juan and 2 of his guys to do my basement for me. I had a decent job done but after these guys left i had over $ 500 of sports equipment missing. You put your trust in individuals and thats exactly what you get for doing so. So if you hire them for any work, make sure your attentive and you dont leave any thing of value around them otherwise the same thing will happen to you. BUYER BEWARE!

I am very happy that we chose JC & Sons for our siding. First of all, he gave us a better price than anyone else. More importantly, he did a great job. The siding was complete in 2 days. After that, I met with Carlos and showed him a few finishing touches that I wanted done as well. He sent me a worker to do everything I asked. My neighbors are all very impressed and I would definitely recommend him and use him again for future projects.

I found JC & sons from ServiceMagic. Carlos called me and made an appointment for a roof job. He gave me a very low price compared to others contractors. But he failed to put it down on paper. He told me he would email his quote to me, that was 1 week ago. Never heard back from him. It is important to get an itemized receipt or contract when you’re doing these type of renovations because you are at the contractors mercy when it comes to cutting corners and using inferior products. Ultimately, I didn’t feel I can trust him.

I came across this company after noticing its workers on the roof of another house in the neighborhood — which turned out nicely — so I decided to ask for a free estimate on replacing new sidings and windows (24 total) on my house.
After bargaining hard with the owner, Carlos, I agreed to hire J.C. & Sons based on what I considered a fair quote. I was very surprised and skeptical to learn that his workers would be able to accomplish everything we discussed — sidings, windows, replacing a new roof for the porch, including aluminum wrappings, and aluminum ceiling — in only two days (!). This should have been the first red flag. As you can imagine, in order to accomplish everything under deadline, Carlos’s workers (11 total on the first day) rushed the entire job, neglecting many of the details in the process. Fortunately, I was present throughout the whole rennovation so that I was able to catch and correct many potentially disastrous mistakes. I’m not in the least a home repair expert, but when someone wants to use aluminum ceilings to wrap the exterior of your porch that just screams incompetence! Nonetheless, I still missed other moments when Carlos’s workers took shortcuts and now there’s just nothing that can be done.
To be fair, the vinyl sidings turned out satisfactory. However, details in the windows such as huge gaps between the original wall and aluminum wrapping are just too glaring to overlook. What’s worse, their solution was to use white silicone to fill it in, amounting to what would be an atrocious glob around the frame of every single window! (I demanded they change to transparent silicone). There are just too many examples to go into where attention to work was lacking and incompetent mistakes were made (i.e., failure to flush the roof with tar, which resulted in a leak into our second floor window the following rainy day).
I would not recommend this company to anyone, but if you’re still unswayed, I recommend bargaining very hard with Carlos (he’ll quote you an overall price without giving you an itemized breakdown — that’s just shady) and vigilant supervision of his crew.