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CHECKBOOK provides:
- Award winning articles and reports of over 6,100 firms, compiled from more than 432,000 consumer ratings by Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports magazine subscribers who have used these companies and professionals.
- Thousands of hours of undercover shopping to compare prices
- Review of complaints received by local consumer agencies such as Better Business Bureau (BBB) and attorney general offices
- In-depth research.
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- No ballot-box stuffing.
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- Read CHECKBOOK's free advice on choosing a local plumber.
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Washington DC Consumers' CHECKBOOK (CHECKBOOK.org) will get your pet the best possible care while saving you trouble, time, and money. It's the independent, non-profit, no-advertising source of ratings and advice on hundreds of types of services you use in your everyday life. See list of services covered.
CHECKBOOK only publishes ratings for a specific firm when an adequate number of ratings of that firm (sample size) is reached. Therefore, not all firms in a given category will appear in CHECKBOOK's ratings tables. |
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8546 Fingerboard Rd
Frederick, MD
Phone: 301-482-1633
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Plumbers Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Plumbers.
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Subscriber from ANNANDALE, VA wrote about a local plumber:
Simply the best plumber Ive ever used. He is fast & does great work........
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Subscriber from ARLINGTON, VA wrote about a local plumber:
Was the first plumber to correctly diagnose AND fix a problem with the drain line..........
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Subscriber from LARGO, MD wrote about a local plumber:
Its Saturday morning and I need a plumber. I call 5 places and Royal Flush..........
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Subscriber from WOODBRIDGE, VA wrote about a local plumber:
Very satisfied!.......
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Subscriber from SILVER SPRING, MD wrote about a local plumber:
Nate was great. I used him to install a vessel sink w/ pop-up drain. I..........
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Subscriber from GAITHERSBURG, MD wrote about a local plumber:
I requested advice and possible repair of a leak from a shower. The repairs needed..........
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Subscriber from CHEVY CHASE, MD wrote about a local plumber:
These guys were friendly, knowledgeable, and fair priced........
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Subscriber from BETHESDA, MD wrote about a local plumber:
Richard Thompson knows his stuff, is conscientious, and is impeccably neat........
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