Gonzalez Concrete

I am really impressed with Gonzalez Concrete. I contacted them because our sidewalk was badly cracked and I worried that it might cause an accident. I decided to have it fixed before anything bad happened. There was a wait to have work done (as with all contractors these days) but when our time came to have work done it was done beautifully. Unfortunately, our front step broke after cement removal. Fernando immediately took responsibility for the problem and a crew was dispatched to fix the step. And they did a fantastic job with that too. This is a great company to work with. I highly recommend them.

WOW! These guys are nuthing less than true professionals! I had my whole curb, sidewalk, planter boxes and driveway done in the pacific heights neighborhood and I must say I was extremely impressed on how these guys do business. Mr Gonzalez son Daniel came by to meet with me on time unlike 2 other contractors that I had schedule appointmentments with. I went over with Daniel what i wanted done and again unlike the other 2 contractors that came by he actually suggested different options that would make my new concrete look better I was glad I went with his suggestions. There quote was not the cheapest but one of my co-​workers highly recommended them so I knew to expect quality work plus I walk and see my sidewalk evryday so Id rather pay a couple hundred dollars more to have some nice quality concrete work with no regrets. From start to finish they handled dealing with the city getting the permits that were required, office responded to my calls kept me updated while work was progessing, the crew men were kind and performed the demolition part of it quickly and left it safe and clean at the end of the day. Then came the final day of the scope of work concrete pour «yaaaay» I was nervous and excited, nervous because Ive seen other new sidewalks and they look like sh*t. After a long day of working the concrete the finish product was an absolute work of art! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND GONZALEZ CONCRETE!!! YOUR CREW ROCKS! thank you again!

Completely unprofessional, don’t waste your time & $$ and stay away. I am writing down to s share my experience here so everyone can read it and make their own decision. Reading the previous reviews, it looks like many people have had similar experiences as well.
08/​20/​2015 — 2pm site visit scheduled — they didn’t show up. I called in and they said that they rescheduled it but forgot to give me a call to notify.
8÷25÷2015 — 1pm — met at the site. Was told that I will be sent a proposal the next morning.
8÷31÷2015 — called them to remind the proposal. Was told that they will send it by the end of the day.
9÷2÷2015 — called them to remind the proposal again and was told that they are too busy to provide a proposal.
End of story.

Courteous call — Was about to set up an appointment, most likely realized that it’s not going to be a $ 1M contract, suddenly claimed that he’s behind schedule and refused to take the job. LOL. Refused to take a job that I did not even agree to give it to him, yet.

My sidewalk got tagged for repair by the city, and my wife and I decided to bite the bullet and replace the entire sidewalk, including the driveway and small retaining walls. We got what I thought was a reasonable estimate from Gonzales Concrete, and since they do a lot of work around town I was comfortable giving them the job.
In short, they did a fabulous job. Yeah, its only concrete, but have you noticed how many bad concrete sidewalk repairs there are around town? All the lines in my concrete are perfectly straight, the light broom finish is uniform, cleanup every day, placement of barricades, etc. All very professional. Mailo in their front office was really good at communicating what was happening. On the day of the pour, the owner showed up to direct the work and make sure everything was perfect. The crew was great and easy to work with. Very happy with the work.

These guys are awesome. Our house is set very far back from the street, yet we have no parking or garage. We decided that we wanted to add a curb cut and parking pad to our front yard. Gonzalez Concrete was recommended by a friend of the family, and they were a huge help getting this project done. Before this, I had never had to navigate the permitting process of San Francisco. They were able to guide me through the process in such a way that I pulled the permits myself to save some money on the project. That took the majority of the time for the project. When all the permits were finally in order, they demoed and poured the concrete in a week working around some rainy days. They kept me up to date as to their plans and when they would be out for our project, which was very much appreciated. In the end, the final product was more than work all the headache of getting the permits! Our curb cut looks great! Their concrete work was spot on and they matched the existing sidewalk seamlessly. I would highly recommend them for any concrete work, but especially if you need someone knowledgeable about getting a new curb cut put in!

This company is one of the most unprofessional operations I have ever come across. The issue that I have with them is unrelated to their quality of work, but rather their blatant disregard for permit guidelines around the use of a porta potty at a construction site in Noe Valley.
In order to complete the work they moved the porta potty on the street just off the sidewalk at the neighboring house. The porta potty was placed directly in front of the back bumper of our brand new car. After driving off to run a few errands, we noticed a chipped rear bumper in front of the porta potty door. It was obvious that someone had opened the door upon use of the porta potty and hit our rear bumper causing the damage.
When we confronted the foreman, they of course denied causing any damage to our brand new vehicle. After further investigation with the city, we were able to determine that Gonzalez Concrete had neglected to place proper signage around the porta potty after moving it away from their construction site.
Then there was the obvious damage to our vehicle when they used our back bumper as a door stop for the porta potty door. We attempted to report the incident through the city, but we all know how that goes.

I contracted with Gonzalez to replace the entire sidewalk in front of my property in S.F. He was not the cheapest, but I hired him for the following reasons: His estimate was every complete, down to the depth and quality of the cement, came out to the job sight and went over the scope of the work, coordinated replacing the sewer line and was the only one that did not require a down payment. His office staff person is a peach. She did a great job of getting answers to my questions, when the owner was not available. I have hired contractors over the years for different jobs. Without question, I would hire this firm again.

If I could give 10 stars I would. We had a concrete patio area that had cracked and broken, for undiagnosed reasons. After several calls to different contractors and one other bid following a painful site visit we connected with Mr. Gonzales who arrived 10 minutes EARLY, promptly diagnosed the issue, had a bid sent by email within 20 minutes, scheduled the work for three days later, and finished on time without any issues. His team is conscientious and professional. Contractors and other service providers take note: when you communicate clearly, do what you say, and act professionally throughout, your customers will gladly pay a bit more and give you give stars! I have no idea what the poor reviews are about ~ seems that many of the reviewers who trashed the company never actually had work done, which is jank.

Highly recommend. They had by far the lowest bid and did exactly what they said they’d do. Excellent communication throughout. They did a curb cut for us and also replaced 7 sidewalk squares. There’s no need to use anyone else as they have the best prices in town.

Gonzalez Concrete was great from start to finish. The owner, Fortunato Gonzales, came to survey the job and provided a quick bid. We had two sidewalk jobs: one a repair and the other a full replacement. The price was reasonable. They offered the full service including getting the required permits by the city. They started work on schedule and completed in time. All of the Gonzalez team were very professional from Thurlene in scheduling to the construction crew. Our contractor and property manager were also very appreciative of the high quality of work. We would highly recommend Gonzalez Concrete.

We used Gonzalez Concrete to fix a job that our general contractor screwed up. I found them very easy to work with and am very pleased with the finished product, not to mention that Mr. Gonzalez’ employees were unfailingly polite and left the area pristinely clean. The price was also extremely reasonable. I would definitely recommend them to others and also use their services again.

This company gets pretty bimodal reviews, and I’m in the low end. Had Mr. Gonzales out to check the site for a fairly simple project — a little foundation and sidewalk-​adjacent work. He agreed to bid on the work, and promised an estimate early the next week. Four weeks, several phone calls and several more emails later they finally conceded that they wouldn’t be bidding on the project — and that was after I offered them the graceful exit of declining to bid if they didn’t feel the job was a fit for them.
Quality of the work, if you get it done, may be excellent. I wouldn’t know, since they couldn’t marshall the professionalism to manage the bidding or customer communications process properly, so the job went to someone else.
I won’t advise you against having Gonzales bid on your job, but they certainly shouldn’t be the only one you bring in, nor would I advise waiting for them once you have another acceptable bid in hand.

Like most of the other reviewers, I was very impressed with the quality of their work. I hired them because there was a tree root clogged sewer pipe 6′ or more under under the 6′ long brick walk that led from our doorway to the street and the sewer pipe needed to be dug out to access it; some concrete next to the brick walk needed to be removed in the process.
Their first helpful point was to immediately give me an option to replace the concrete wall jutting up several inces on one side of the walk with either brick or concrete — a perceptive point which might not have occurred to me and, of course, I choose brick. They did a lovely aesthetic job and were equally good about neatness and sidewalk safety during the process.
When I realized that it would be helpful to repair a gaping crack on the nearby wall at the last minute while the job was ongoing Mr. Gonzalez was there to look at it in literally a half hour and agreed to do it for a very reasonable $ 100. And at the end when I noticed a couple of additional small craters in the front concrete wall (not part of the job), the working people graciously filled these in without additional charge. I also found them all, from Mr. Gonzalez to Darlene in the office to the people who did the work, very pleasant and easy to communicate with.
I wanted to make it 5 star but haven’t only because they didn’t warn me about the heavy dust from the earth process, and I’ll need to do a bit more scrubbing on my car parked in front to get it off. Overall I originally thought the cost, $ 4200, was high but now realize that it was all a lot more work than I realized. The plus is that the entrance to the house looks so much better that it probably has added that much to the house value even though my original intention was just fixing the sewer.

I can’t imagine anyone who has had work done by Gonzalez Concrete giving them anything but 5 stars. I’d give them 6 if I could. Due to some nasty invasive street trees, and being tagged by the city, I had to replace my entire sidewalk. It was no small job — about 80 feet in length by about 10 feet wide, with lots of difficult angles and access issues.
Gonzalez was not the low bid, he was in the middle. But from the very first impression I knew I would select him. His attention to detail is extraordinary, and he inspired great confidence. We ran into a number of delays due to weather, work to be performed by other contractors, etc. When it finally came time to do the job, he did it quickly and professionally. No messing around with these guys, and the job turned out absolutely perfect. Cleanup was outstanding, too.
And special mention should be made about the prompt, friendly, and courteous manner everyone in the company demonstrated, from Darlene in the front office, to Mr. Gonzalez, and to his sons who work with him as well as the rest of the crew.
I can’t say enough good about them. If you need sidewalk work done, he’s the guy to do it.

When I came home fron a trip to Oregon for Christmas, I had a surprise Christmas present from the city. On my front door was a notice to fix my concrete and redo the curb. My next door neighbor and I decided to have the work done by Gonzales Concrete. They came the next day and gave us a quote. Delores, the secretary, gave me a phone call every day to tell me what to expect. The company handles all the required city’s permit work while starting the work in a timely manner. I have been very impressed with every worker I have talked to during this process. Every man has been so friendly and helpful. The job is almost done and soon I will be able to park again in my garage. My heart goes out to the street parkers in SF.

We LOVED these guys !
Responsible, Speedy, Courteous and GREAT work ! Its hard to find professionals like them in SF and we talked to 5 other contractrors.
We requested an estimate for laying concrete in our basement gym area which was all dirt and wood (9×24 — small room) from 4 – 5 contractors. Some were awful at communicating (wouldn’t return phone calls).
Some of them gave ridiculous estimates (2 – 3 times higher than Gonzalez). Others said they needed «2 weeks» just to give us an estimate.
Fortunado and Darlene were professional. They came within a day of setting up an appointment. Efficient email response. Clear, honest answers to our questions.
We are very very happy with the quality of the work and their bedside manners esp compared to the other contractors

** 1.) AVOID AVOID AVOID if you don’t like dealing with headaches and unprofessionalism.
** 2.) Make sure you have a signed bid… Oh wait, that doesn’t matter to them.
We orginally contracted this company b/​c of the positive Unilocal reviews. Just to give a little back story, we agreed upon a contract, signed it, and they began work. After our driveway was completely torn up, the owner called back to say he wanted more money and that upon inspection THEY accidently wrote up the bid wrong. Nothing like being held hostage by a contractor.
So classic bait and switch. We have no driveway and a contractor demanding more money. What do we do? Hold him to the contracted price and risk a terrible job? Or pay the extra amount so we can get a decent job done?
After a few heated phones calls with his admin staff and eventually Mr Gonzalez himself and being stuck between a rock and a hard place, we settled on a HIGHER price. The work quality remains to be seen over the next few months but what an aggravating experience to deal with.

By chance, Fortunado was driving by my home right after my sidewalk was «tagged» by the city. The work was great, but most impressive was how well the office staff worked with the city and myself — it was so easy. My only complaint was that the site was a little messy when they left, concrete dust all over, but I did leave two cars in the driveway in close proximity to their work and they remained pristine. Great bunch to work with.

I just used Gonzalez Concrete to repair my sidewalk per city notice that i received. the Owner Fortunado gave me a reasonable estimate and took care of the permits and everything turned out great. It was done ON TIME and equal to the estimate given to me.
I HIGHLY recommend using this company for ANY concrete work you need done. A+++