Danielsen Construction & Energy Management

I hired Tom Danielsen to build a trellis and lay some flagstone to create an outside living space. At his suggestion, we were able to incorporate solar panels and improve greatly on our initial idea. Tom gave our little project a lot of thought and because of his efforts we ended up with a much better product at a very fair price. Thanks Tom!

Tom and his crew remodeled our cabin in Blue Lake Springs site unseen. We met him once, showed him what we wanted and gave him the keys. He took care of everything and got additional quotes for painting the outside, inside cabinets and staining the deck. He also put me in touch with a local vendor who upholsters chairs and got all of those done.
I highly recommend and trust Tom and his crew.

Wow… where do I start.
We are planning a roof replacement at our home in San Andreas. We have a roof mounted combination furnace/​air conditioner unit and the heater portion was not working. so, since we were having the roof replaced, we thought that this is the time to replace the furnace.
We had a few companies lined up to give us bids for this work and Tom was one of the contractor’s that I called. He came out and asked, why did we want this unit replaced and I told him the furnace does not work very efficiently. Well on day that he came to give us an estimate, he walked through the house, climbed the roof and starting taking off the covers of the unit to check it out. He went up and down a few times carrying equipment and meters and what not… then said to me that why replace when you could fix this unit! he spent almost 2 hours at our house and didn’t want any money!
We got bids between $ 8,000 and $ 11,000 to replace the unit and modify and seal our duct work. Tom fixed our furnace for $ 800. He said that he would rather see us tighten up the house we got with better insulation, seal the ductwork and a solar system than spend it on the furnace. How many contractors do that?
He recommended roofers and solar system contractor for us. The roofer was one of the lowest bidders and the solar guy is coming out next week.
Tom is honest, very knowledgeable, and trusted. How many contractors can you say this about? He not only knows his stuff, I truly believe he cares. Energy efficiency is more important than making the money on a contract job. He will be my go-​to guy when we work on our other house. Call Tom first, you won’t regret it!

We recently had Tom re-​work the heating and add air conditioning to our cabin in Blue Lake Springs. The old system was heating only and it left the upstairs really, really cold in the winter (there was very little air coming through the registers) and without air conditioning it was extremely hot both upstairs and downstairs in the summer.
Tom did an incredible job; he is a true professional. He installed a dual zone system with Wi-​Fi thermostats both upstairs and downstairs. Being Wi-​Fi thermostats I am able to control the temperatures from my regular home in Palo Alto — very useful; I can set the temperature when I am travelling there, and I can set it to heat when it is very cold to prevent freezing in the cabin.
In addition Tom left the place as he found it — clean!
I have nothing but praise for Tom and his team; he really knows everything there is to know about heating and AC systems, and he has the equipment to prove it.

I can’t say enough about the responsiveness and quality of Tom and his crew. We had a 150′ pine tree fall on our home in Blue Lake Springs and I called several contractors to get help with the initial tree removal and clean up. Tom was the first to respond and and was out to the site the next morning. He gave me a professional and honest assessment and helped me understand what I could expect from the insurance company. He changed his crew’s workload around so he could get his tree specialists out the next day. Alejandro and his partner took care of the 30′ section of tree still on the roof and cleaned up the remaining 100′ feet of downed tree in just one day. Other than the damage to the roof, the property was back to normal. Thanks Tom and Alejandro for your responsiveness and quality work. I would hire again and would strongly recommend to others.

This review might not sound real at first, but once you see the episode of Hotel Hell on Fox involving Murphys Historic Hotel, then you might become a believer. As the production designer for Hotel Hell, I am selective in who I like to hire because I know that there is a high level of quality expected from Chef Gordon Ramsey. I did my research around the local area of Murphys and found Tom Danielsen Construction. He runs a professional company that has the manpower to do the job and the attitude to make it simple and fun for everyone! I was impressed by the work ethic of his entire crew and really enjoyed working him. I hope that this review is helpful to anyone looking for a great contractor in the area.

Tom and his team did some work on a vacation cottage that my husband and I purchased last year. What could have been an incredibly stressful experience for so many reasons (remodeling in general is of course stressful, but we were managing the project from 120 miles away!) turned out to be as easy as could possibly be! We had Danielsen Construction paint all of our kitchen cabinets, install all new kitchen appliances, install 2 new exterior doors, refinish the front deck, rip out old carpeting and install laminate throughout the kitchen/​dining room/​living room, install plumbing fixtures in 3 bathroom sinks and 1 kitchen sink, and even repair the non-​functioning fireplace and A/​C units. When he promised he’d be done in 2 weeks, we weren’t sure what to believe, as we had lived through a remodel of our primary residence that took 2 months longer than promised to complete. When Tom actually DELIVERED on his promise (actually finished in less than 2 weeks!) we were floored. To boot, it was extremely high quality work and we couldn’t be happier with it. For my husband and me, Tom has now set the bar so high for contractors that we are now scared to undertake another remodel of our primary residence! It’s too bad we live so far from him, or we’d definitely have him do that job.
We cannot recommend Tom highly enough.

My wife and I are very pleased with the work Tom and his men did on our home. They reconfigured our inefficient duct work, blew in new insulation for a higher R rating and installed a new Heat Pump for a lower overall energy bill. Now our home is comfortable through out, and our energy usauge is much more efficient. I would recommend Tom Daniesen and his competent crew to do an evaluation of your home and to make it more comfortable and energy efficient. The clean up was fantastic and follow up was right on. We are very happy with the upgrade.