Sid Chung Plumbing and Rooter Service

Sid is a total disaster! Do not hire him for any work in your home! He might do a fine plumbing job, I don’t really know, but he’ll destroy everything in his path like a tornado. He busted several pickets in the fence, cut a bush in half leaving it dangling by just a few roots (rather than removing it completely or working around it), installed a new clean out in the middle of the lawn that is about 6 inches above the ground (ugly and dangerous), but the worst thing he did was cut through the underground electrical pipes carrying electricity to our pool with a skill saw! And he just buried the pipe like nothing happened! There had to have been a spark and he would have heard the pop of the breaker, but he said NOTHING to us!!! The pool guy told us there was no electricity to the pool. He copped to cutting the pipe after the pool guy Told us and said he would send someone skilled to take care of it. After days of dodging us, we called our handyman/​electrician to assess the damage. Sid agreed to pay the $ 1200 estimate, but ultimately showed up screaming and yelling about how mad he was that he had to pay for this and that he lost money on this job, offered $ 1000 and refused to pay the rest. He was horribly abusive and scary (the dude is seriously unhinged). Save yourself the trouble and a trip to small claims court by hiring anyone but this guy.

Sid is a likable guy and he works hard. Unfortunately he believes he does excellent work. Our contractor son had to drive hours to come and fix many things that Sid was paid to do. Besides breaking my lamp and burning out my husbands drill, he cut the hot water line to my washing machine. We had to lower the ceiling in the bathroom to accommodate the hoses that were supposed to go through the 2×4’s.

We had an issue with our toilet not flushing completely, often needing a 2^nd or 3^rd flush. I thought I needed to have the pipes snaked out. I was referred to Sid from Jeff Wagner. When I first spoke to him on the phone he was very friendly, knowledgeable and professional.
He arrived on time and quickly diagnosed that the problem we were having was neither our toilet nor our pipes but only the «water saving» flapper. He replaced it quickly and it now works perfectly. No more water wasting with multiple flushes. He didn’t ask for a full service charge because he was more interested in being our long term go to plumber.
Absolutely recommend Sid.

While Sid seems to know plumbing very well, is friendly and softspoken, the problem is, he doesn’t seem capable of cleaning up after his work or come prepared to contain the messes he causes. After draining our toilet tank with his shop vac, he simply picked up the vac and walked out of the bathroom with it, oblivious to the fact the hose was draining large puddles of dirty, rusted water all over the bathroom floor! After he took a couple of steps into the hallway, I stopped him and told him to go back. Only then did he look down and notice the leaking hose. I didn’t believe how much water there was and he didn’t trouble himself to bend down and wipe any of it!
I explained to him that the carpet in the hallway and the rest of the house was new and I was trying very hard to keep it clean. He didn’t seem to grasp that. We even had runners going down the length of the hallway to walk on, but his feet stepped all over the place.
Then he went on to fix the faucet in the bathtub. Any plumber who knows he’s going to put his foot in the tub and turn on the water should bring shop towels with him (or keep his foot out of the water). Any plumber knowing he’s going to use Dap with his fingers needs to bring towels to wipe his hands. But not Sid. When he was done with the Dap, he reached for the first thing he could see to wipe his hands on — my brand-​new folded shower curtain hung over the back rack. My husband stopped him or it would have been covered in Dap.
When he got up out of the tub, instead of wiping his now wet and very dirty shoe, he just walked out and promptly stepped on my new carpet, leaving an ugly footprint of his giant shoe on it, not to speak of leaving dirty footprints on the bathroom floor. Again I stopped him and brought him a towel to wipe his shoes on.
I was hoping the carpet wouldn’t be that bad after it dried, but his dirty footprints are darker now than they were wet. Every time I look at it, I feel like crying. It puts me between a rock and a hard place. I’m not sure what I’m going to have to do to get it cleaned. I have a lot of chronic health problems and its very difficult for me to get down on the floor to clean it. I’m also allergic to the chemicals they put in carpet cleaner, but it looks like I’ll have to call a professional carpet cleaner in.
Sid wasn’t cheap either. My husband and I live on a very limited income. Not only did he charge a lot for the little plumbing he ended up doing, but now I’ll have to pay for carpet cleaning on top of that.

Sidney came out to do a clean out of our sewer line, he was amazing, friendly and helpful. I will absolutely recommend his services to anyone looking for a plumber! :-)

Sid is a lifesaver. I live in a 37 year old home with intermittent drainage issues. You know the kind where the toilet won’t flush and drain, and the shower fills up with yuk?
Sid has saved me at least three times over the past 10 years, usually the day after Thanksgiving when we had too many people here, and we are in crisis mode with houseguest. He always responds quickly, does a thorough job and his pricing is very fair.
This is the weekend our daughter and family visit for Mothers Day, and guess what? Toilet and shower backed up this afternoon around 1:00. As I write this, it is 4:00 and Sid is here starting to fix our situation.
Please don’t hesitate to call Sid for plumbing problems, if plumbers could wear Superman capes, I would give him one. The best I can do is give hime 5 stars,
I feel badly, as I had intended to Unilocal him years ago.