Oceanside Heating & Air Conditioning Furnaces

I needed a replica of a tapered flat-​top art deco era flue cap to replace one that failed. Dallas at Oceanside made us a better replacement chimney cap than the original. It was beautifully made and skillfully installed. They made our skylights 20 years ago and they are still beautiful.

The short of it: DON’T USE THIS COMPANY — BAD WORK, BAD ATTITUDE, BAD BUSINESS PRACTICES, AND LAZY!!!
Oceanside (whatever they do) is the vendor used by our building manager in the apt building where I live. If the building manager only knew what substandard (amateurish) work these guys do. Here’s my story: I’m washing dishes and I reach under the kitchen sink to get something and notice that it is flooded with water that is gushing from the bottom of the garbage disposer. The building manager (who I quite like) hooks me up with Dallas, the owner.
Both Dallas and his younger counterpart arrive earlier than expected to install the new garbage disposer. I asked him if the new disposer included the drain fixture (which I knew it did) and if they were going to replace that. He said it did, but that it would take extra work to replace the drain fixture along with the disposer and that the building manager wouldn’t approve it. Huh? What you’re really saying is it’s okay to do a half-​baked installation in less time and charge the building for a new disposer as if it was fully replaced. I told Dallas that I’m a recent homeowner and it worked very differently in that setting. He was unmoved. When they were done I went in to see the new disposer and in fact they had not installed the new drain fixture. But what was worse is they had spliced the wire from the brand new disposer into the years-​old wire from the old disposer so they didn’t have to take the time to put a plug on the end of the wire. Then they double backed the cord onto itself and used black electric tape to hold it in place so the cord didn’t sag into the storage space. Huh? attach it to an old plug and you can’t even cut the wire to fit?
RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY.

I recently dealt with Oceanside Sheet Metal to acquire a spark resister for my chimney along with a Turban for the vent in our Kitchen. First speaking to the owner his name is Dallas, he seemed all stressed out tells me just get the dimensions which I had, The gals in the office told me that the shop person will make the spark resister that it will take a couple days. Well three days later I called to see if it’s ready then I’m switched to the shop person on the phone whom barely spoke English .The person tells me they know nothing about it, I told them that the dimension sheet was left in the office with the owner whom gave it to the gal (it was his wife). I was switched back to her then asked about the turban & spark resister she tells me she knows nothing about it, then asks me «Did you pay in advance?» I told her «no», she then tells me «it must be paid first in order to do a custom job.» My reply was «no one told me that it had to be paid upfront when I had already asked the day that I was in the shop,.my name was on the design sheet with my phone number address to contact me as well.» I didn’t want to give my credit card number unless it was confirmed that the specs sheet was received,.The gal then tells me «they don’t have a sheet with the specs „I told her „I left it with her husband who passed it to you in the office upstairs that it would be made, I told that I could send it as an attachment to the email of the shop along with a mobile photo of the resister so they can see what it looks like if they can please start on it.“ I called the lady the next day to see if she got my email, well she wasn’t in that day so the person in the office didn’t have access to the emails so I’m switched back to the shop guy. He tells me „he knows nothing about it“ so I’m switched back to the gal upstairs then told her have the „owners wife or owner“ call me as soon as possible. Well no returned call. I then called spoke to the owners wife asked about the email sent „she tells me the system is down“ I asked to speak to the owner she tells me „he’s at a jobsite he’ll have to call you later“Well now it’s five days I told her that I would send a fax the specs to her“ she then replies“ why don’t you bring it in» which I was starting to wonder at this point. I brought the old spark resister to the shop first thing the next morning as I walked into the place they were opening up the owner /​boss I had spoke to was screaming then yelling at his employees it actually made me a little nervous. As I’m standing there I noticed something look familiar… no it wasn’t a new spark resister it was my actual drawing print sheet that was partially crumbled on the floor at the front of the shop with garbage cans filled with scrap metal. I then spoke to the owner «Dallas» told him who I was then proceeded to show him the paper that was on the ground”. He gives me an angry fixed stare breathing hard. Afterwards he walks away without saying a word then starts screaming at two guys in the shop about the resister. Afterwards he starts yelling at someone else in the shop. That is when I told myself” enough is enough” tell you the truth I don’t know how these people stay in business with such «Angry Disorganized Goofs» in that place. I ended up waiting then wasting a week with no responses from Oceanside Sheet Metal. That place carelessly tossed my order along dealing with a really truly «Madman Owner» with a lost soul who really needs to go to «Anger Management Sessions.”

this is by far the best place in the BAY AREA to go to for any sheet-​metal (kitchens, sky-​lights, heating, air conditioning ect.) needs. They have been family owned for literally 41 years, and still going strong. If you want the job done RIGHT the FIRST time and don’t want to be over-​charged, then Oceanside is the ONLY place to go. I’ve gone to other sheet metal places in the past and have only been disappointed; ever since I hired Oceanside, I continued to use them exclusively for all my sheet metal needs. Good Job guys !

I have been using this company for at least ten years. I’m a bit of a DIYer, and I like the fact that I can bring them a pencil sketch or the old rusty part and have them fabricate exactly what I need. In addition, they give me good advice about installing it based on their years of experience.
This is the next best thing to having a family member with a garage full of sheet metal tools.

What can i say Unilocalers. despite some not-​so-​great reviews, these guys came through for us in a pinch on a weekend. I called them up and got an answering service (which btw was very professional and a stark difference between them and some dude answering with a «yea» like some of his competitors) and thoroughly expected to get blown off after leaving the message. He called back within a half an hour (on a weekend mind you) already knowing a little about what was going on via the relay from the service. After a brief discussion about the problem he already had a diagnosis over the phone and showed up to my humble outter-​richmond abode with a cool apprentice that found the problem (bad glow plug) and they were on their way in a half an hour with a pretty reasonable bill. The cool thing too with these guys is they expained what the deal was and educated you a little too in the process. I used cabrillo for the same heater and a water heater too and they were pricey and talked to me like I’d need a full semester of course work at the ivy –leagues of plumbing and heating to even begin to understand the problem. Ocean side educated me with my system and made me feel like i could diagnose it next time. nice work oceanside!

I dropped off a sample of sheet metal that I wanted made right into the owners hands. 10 days later they still haven’t called me back despite my 3 calls to the office. First 2 times they denied I’d ever been in there…
Why bother, there has to be someone who wants your business more

not even a star, not even worth a rating
pride himself as a professinoal in his businsess more like a con man

I should never have done business with these guys.
1) I had to do a call back because the removal was not done properly. They left ½ of the old downspout
2) New gutters were not installed correctly. The downspout angle exceeds 90 degrees, so it leaks. Do they expect water to run up hill? I am waiting for them to come out and correct.
How these guys get a high rating from the BBB is beyond me

I concur with the past evaluations. I had them replace a thermostat and it took one week after numerous calls. These guys put in my original furnace. I am still waiting a week for a fuse they need to replace on the furnace. I have called every other days but they do not have the courtesy to return my calls.
I would not recommend Oceanside Heating and Air conditioning

Worst experience ever with a wannabe professional business .Bad communication, bad customer service (they forget your info just as you get off the phone with them), almost impossible to get someone to come over to your place, the owner‘s attitude reflects the company‘s policy («we don‘t care «).Do yourself a favour and skip these guys if you want a quick job and not just promisses… they don‘t deserve not even 1 star…

One star is too much for these guys! I am so upset with the way they run their business. I had OSM do the vent work on four water heaters. They took two week to schedule the install date and then sent out a guy who made a huge mess and never came back… finally a week later somebody showed up to finish the job. Very unprofessional way of doing business!
More importantly, a permit was needed for the job. I’ve called several times to inquire about the inspection status but i don’t get a reply. beginning to wonder if they even pulled a permit (?) I guess I’ll be heading down to the permit office soon to find out for myself… but i shouldn’t have to! they should just f’n call me a give me a freaking answer!!! what’s up with that?

We’re in the midst of replacing the gutters in the front of our house.
They took out the gutters before some painters came in 2 days notice and they’re going to wait until the painters finish before putting the gutters on. So far they’ve been very professional. I’ll update this report once the gutters are installed.
update — the gutters have been installed and they look fine. well see what happens during rainy season.