Al’s Complete Welding Services

This business does not know anything about treating customers with respect and hung up on me on the phone. There are plenty of welders that know how to talk to people on the phone. I’ll take my business else where. Customers beware!

Al was very professional, charged a fair price, and took care of my small welding job right then and there (as a walk in after I called first). And James, who did the welding job, did a great job. They made my older broken piece stronger than the original by cutting a thicker piece of metal, and even painted it for free. Nice guys.

This guy «AL» is a joke! I called and accidentally asked for the wrong company, he laughed and hung up. ((All BS to the side)) actually hung up. Called back, apologized and asked if I had Al’s welding he hung up again?! So I attempted a 3^rd time, because it was a referral. And the guy tells me «I’m a f*****g joke for playing with his time», I tried explain to the mistake. and his response was «f**k off» and hung up the phone. I guess that’s how you keep the good ol customer service polished up. Way to go Al, way to go.

Al’s Welding saved the day! On the morning of President’s Day I discovered that the heat shield on my range had detached from the oven floor, and I had to bake a giant pan of lasagna for a party that night. I called Al’s and fortunately they were open. Went down to the shop around 10:00AM. Al had someone ready to weld together the 2 parts and the job was done in about 20 minutes. Problem solved. Thanks, Al.

TE-​RRI-​BLE.
Late. Rude. Poor quality.
Stay away.

They did a great job welding a leak that I had in my aluminum oil cooler. Quick turnaround and inexpensive. Yeah, so maybe the owner isn’t a warm and fuzzy guy, but oh well… it is a busy shop. The work performed was delivered as promised.

They are very present when they want to be paid, but kinda disappear when the work needs to be done. Would have rather worked with someone else.

I walked into Al’s welding at 7am on a Monday morning with a broken bicycle frame. The guys had barely clocked in, but they fired up the welding torch and had it fixed in less than 5mins. Now that’s what I call service!
Al’s also came with entertainment. The guy who met me was super helpful and efficient and quoted me $ 30. While the bike was getting fixed, in walked another guy, who appeared to be the boss, and who demanded to know what was going on… as if a welding shop shouldn’t be welding. He then proceeded to loudly berate and swear at the first guy, because the minimum should have been $ 35.
So, five stars for the guys who fixed my bike quickly, without hassle, before they’d even had their coffee. Minus two stars for the jerk with the short hair, and for the poor guys who have to work with him.

No transparency, no accountability and a bunch of half-​truths= don’t waste your time. This is not an ethical business. When I first dialed the phone # that my contractor gave me to call, I was connected to Al’s cell phone. He said «Yes, this is Al, What can I do *to* you?» Well apparently you an drop the ball and rip me off in the process. Not very professional way to address a new customer. I should have known. I brought them a simple job. Weld these five pieces of aluminum together to make a table. We dropped off the five pieces and explained the job to Paul in person and in detail. Al’s would not provide a written estimate, despite the fact that I asked for one several times. They verbally estimated 3 hrs then charged me five. Every time I contacted them about status, they had a bunch of excuses. They outright lied about the status of the job at least twice. Between Al, Paul and Sue no one is accountable. They just hide behind each other so that you are never really sure where you stand. They were late in getting the job done. They finally delivered yesterday and it’s welded together incorrectly. They also lost one of the pieces (stabilizer bar) and are claiming that they never received it. Without the stabilizer bar the table can not support much weight and bend in the middle when I place a TV on top. The job was delivered late, over-​budget and incorrectly assembled. when i called to discuss it, they apologized but I’m out of time, money and patience. I paid $ 700 for a job that should have been $ 350.

Don’t waste any time or money here.
I brought in a bike frame to have two small holes TIG welded on the top tube so I could stop the developing stress cracks; a job so simple that even an inept monkey, with no welding experience, and a lack of opposable digits could perform it in a matter of minutes.
I dropped off the frame as they could not fix it right away, but when I arrived several days later at the scheduled pick up time, the work had not even been started. The guy behind the desk grabbed the frame and hastily performed one of the worst welding jobs I have ever seen. The holes were not covered over, and he missed the crack that I pointed out. I had to have him re-​weld both sections (which was also done shoddily). The bill for the apprx. 5 minutes of work on a frame worth about $ 80 was $ 90.
After I got home I ground off the crappy weld and took it to a friends and redid the welds myself.

Ok, now that i’m (almost) over it i feel i needed to write a review.
I brought a rare 60’s ducati vintage gas tank to Al that had some pitting holes on the top surface (rest of it was perfect shape), asked him if he could fix it, draw on the tank the maximum area that he could cut off to fix it if he need to (could have been braised easily) went back to pay $ 240 for the worst welding job i have seen in my life, honestly, when i was 12 i used a arc welder and i did a better job.
First, he cutted way further than the line i drew, exactly right where the surface is folded and the hardest to reproduce
Second, he replaced the large removed piece of metal with a flat piece 2 times thicker, and unstead of curving it, cutted it in the center, made a straigh fold and welded it .
Third, was supposed to be TIG welded (what i paid for), it was obvisouly not, and deformed most of the metal, and was not sealed properly (with runny welds inside etc…)
I was so sad to see this terrible job that I cutted it away with a grinder, so at least, the hole look nicer than the fix!

I brought them a very small project, shortening some table legs, that required some cutting and welding, on a Monday morning.
Al, took it to his guy and he did exactly what I wanted within ½ hour for a reasonable price.
You can’t ask for more.

I called Al’s to see about getting my bicycle frame welded. Al said if I came by right away they could do it the same day. I arrived and Al was nice enough to pull one of his welders off a project they were working on and weld my frame for me while I waited. I went across the street to Blue Bottle and got an espresso and when I went back the bike was ready. The charge was $ 45. Thanks again Al! I appreciate your great customer service.

Pretty straight forward. I emailed them and asked if they could weld the aluminum rear brake pedal from my guzzi. Sure, bring it in. I brought it. Said it would be done now. Went to get my dry cleaning, came back it was done, paid the quoted price of $ 45 and left.
You can tell this shop is busy, so people that need touchy feely glad to have your business, appeasing crap. move on. This is where you come to get things welded, properly.

WORST PLACE EVER.
we needed a radiator welded so we googled a welding place and this was the first one that popped up. We discussed what needed to be fixed and he clearly understood the fill the crack on the radiator. After going to picking it up the next day, we saw that he welded the wrong side and refused to correct his mistake. After going back and forth about fixing his mistake, he finally agreed to do the other side. When we returned and checked out the part, it was done extremely sloppy and seemed like it was a spitefully bad welding job. It took three hours putting the radiator back on only to find it was still leaking from his bad welding job. All in all we had to completely purchase a new radiator.
I do not recommend this place to anyone unless you want a shitty job. These are parts that doesn’t come cheap and this welding service should take pride in their company and provide good customer service by fix their mistakes. But to purposely botch a part just shows what a shitty service this place it.

Al lied repeatedly to me. Talked over me when I tried to point that out. Hung up on me rather than admitting his mistakes and misstatements.
I brought Al a small item to be welded that had broken. He said it would cost $ 35 – 40 to repair, and that he could probably get to it in the next day. I asked that he weld the opposite side (an identical weld) to proactively avoid it failing as well. He said sure.
I didn’t hear from him, so 3 days later I called. He said the work was done, and would cost $ 50 due to the second weld. When I arrived to pick it up, the item had been reassembled wrong. I corrected that, but a critical thumbscrew was missing. And the second weld wasn’t done. Al wasn’t there and Susan, the office manager, said he’d call me.
Al did call… and made excuses for everything. Said it didn’t originally have the missing thumbscrew. Said the item was made of pot metal, and the weld was difficult, so they didn’t do the second weld. (I’d informed him that it was pot metal when I dropped it off, and gee, he’d told me on the phone that the price was higher due to the second weld.) Every time I tried to say something, he talked over me. When I insisted he listen to me or let me talk to Susan, he hung up.
To sum up:
If you want to deal with a pompous, insecure liar, Al’s your guy.

My property management company hired them to replace a mail lock box that had been broken into and several tenants belonging taken from the common areas.
He assured us that the replacement box would be superior. It was a small job so the accountant paid the bill when it came in. When I went to look at the job, it was the same box that had been broken with no improvements. 2 weeks of calling to finally reach him to just put a small strip of metal protecting the box, he wanted us to pay for a second job.
«People don’t break into the same box again».
I’m used to high quality service from my vendors, and find such poor service totally unacceptable.

I needed something that was aluminum welded and had no means to do it myself. I Unilocal’ed around and came upon Weiss Welding. I called them at 8:30am asking if they could do a small job for me before the end of the day. I was told that depending on how small the job was that they should be able to have it done before 3:30pm. It didn’t even take that long because five hours later my job was done!
The staff was SUPER nice and told me ten times over that if I had any problems with the welds to just bring it back and they’d take care any problems. I don’t think that this will be the case as the welds are like a work of art. Apparently they built a jig and really took my job seriously which I am very impressed with, especially for the price I paid. If I ever need anything welded that I cannot do myself, I will bring it to Weiss’s Welding.

Weiss Welding is best! I came home from my honeymoon trip to Buenos Aires sad… demoralized. My Art Deco circa 1950’s starburst mirror got damaged on the flight despite the overzealous packaging and 100 Million fragile stickers.
$ 60 after, my starburst mirror is well again!
Thanks Weiss!

Kate’s stand was broken (
). She felt sad, adrift. Anchorless. Without roots. She had lost her identity, and all the pretty dresses in the world weren’t going to make it right. Life suddenly didn’t seem to matter, and with her newfound mobility she started hanging with the wrong crowd (
). She wasn’t sure how it had all gone so terribly awry, and how she could get back to that safe, secure, and grounded place where she once was.
After an abortive attempt to fix it using Superglue, I took Kate’s stand to Weiss Welding after explaining the situation to a very understanding man on the phone. He looked at it and assured me it could easily be fixed. He was very sweet and concerned about what welding might do to the appearance of the mirrored base of the stand, but functionality was my biggest concern. A mere day and $ 30 later, I picked up my new and improved stand, appearing to be even sturdier than before (and the mirrored base looks completely unaltered). I pulled Kate away from making lanyards on Haight Street, plunked her back on the stand, and we were back in business.
With a newfound lease on life, Kate not only has turned her life around, but has decided to give back to the community, taking part in anti-​war rallies (
) and speaking out against eating disorders. Thanks to Weiss Welding, another mannequin life has been saved!