Silicon Valley Builders Group

I live in an apartment building. My property manager has hired them for two projects so far. The first one, a balcony rebuilding about a year ago, took several months and was actually okay. It did run behind schedule, but I’m not sure whose fault that was. The property manager blamed city inspectors finding unforeseen problems.
Nonetheless, this does not make up for their deadbeat, irresponsible behavior on the ongoing project. In mid-​November, they put up signs saying that they would be rebuilding some of the concrete and would finish by Thanksgiving (a week and a half). They promptly tore out a bunch of concrete stairways and walkways, covered up the holes with plywood, and disappeared. It’s now February (about 12 weeks, folks), and they’re still not done. They did finish the majority of the project, but not the part closest to my apartment. In the whole past month, they’ve only shown up a couple of days. For a long time, they had left a wheelbarrow and some tools on our (admittedly unattractive) landscaping. I don’t know what’s worse: the dirty wheelbarrow or the fact that it’s now gone. I’m not sure if they’re coming back or not.

So the experience with these guys just keeps getting worse and worse my daughter and I are both disabled and they are constantly laughing at my daughter everytime she walks past them. I guess today’s topper was when I came home from work and found one of their employees rooting around in my dumpster. Not there a construction dumpster but the dumpster for the apartment building where they work sometimes going into people’s homes

very challenging experience, HOA project… but still living the fallout from our fence project…

These guys build great fences! They did a fantastic job on my house building a good neighbor style fence with lattice on top. They did exactly as I asked them to do, were in and out in 2 days, and left my job site spotless! I then had them do the fences at my parents house and had the same great experience. The did the backyard and a short decorative fence out front. If you want a great fence, call Silicon Valley Builders Group. Jon M.

I’ve lived near a building where these folks have been working for the past few years, and I’ve tried to communicate my frustrations to them over that time. They have left construction debris in my yard (including broken glass), laid ladders down on my landscaping, dropped debris and hit my house and rain barrel, and sprayed paint on my shingles… and that is just what I can think of off the top of my head. Not once have they EVER communicated to anyone in the neighborhood what they are doing and how long it will take. An oh yah, check out the picture I posted of the three different colors of paint on the side of the building they recently worked on. I tried calling them this morning and just got a message repeating, over and over: «…are you still there? …are you still there.»
Update ⁵⁄₇: apparently Unilocal didn’t like the photo I posted and took it down, saying it wasn’t representative of the work this company does. I beg to differ.

Great quality, decent communication, courteous staff. I guess the only bad thing to report is most workers struggle with the English language making dialogue difficult. But, that’s California for you!

The people below are upset because they live at an HOA and at the end of the day the association calls the shots when it comes to which repairs to make. I own a home on the peninsula and had a fantastic experience with Silicon Valley Builders. The owners, Frank, Chris, and Sergio are all honest and hard working. My fence was built with the highest quality, they were always punctual for meetings, delivered the project on time and on budget, and were patient with any change orders that I requested. I’ll be calling them in the future to build me a deck!!!

I’d have to say (based on my current experiences so far) that the review below is accurate.
Nobody returns calls at this business and several calls made (answered by a receptionist) by me, resulted in a reply of «they are in meetings right now». I leave my name and number and never receive a callback.
If this is the way you would like to be treated, please contact this company. Otherwise, stay away!

Silicon Valley Builders Group has been working on retrofitting the stairs in my complex. In the many construction projects I have been involved in o ver the past 28 years this is the worst. It here is no craftsmanship, the work is poor at best. One set of stairs fell apart just after being finished. There is no one on site who can communicate about the job. The supervisor is non existent. The casual workers they have do not even know how to use a level! After 4redos o f the same staircase, they still are not correct.
The workers are messy, dirty, and would appear to not have any experience. If you are consideri ng using this contractor, BEWARE! They are late, and over budget with all kinds of excuses. It is unfortunate I cannot give less than one star.