San Francisco Garage Company

SF Garage and Mercury Engineering/​Pollard Group are EPIC!!!
Need soft story work or have an unreinforced masonry building? Need garage work? Here is a GREAT recommendation. Our Building needed soft story work to comply with the city. We hired SF Garage to do the work and Mercury Engineering to do the plans. I can not express what an amazing job John Pollard and crew did. I am currently the HOA President at my condo building and I have to say that the entire ownership here is beyond impressed!
SF Garage had great project managers in the office and on site. Everyday they were on time. Totally professional. Nice, polite and positive workers. Quality work was done. This is not easy stuff. John and team always went the extra mile to make sure things were done right. John Pollard cares. Really cares. When there were questions or issues from homeowners, John’s team was immediately responsive and came up with solutions. As far as the work itself, to John, it’s not just about passing code but doing a job that makes the building better and stronger for a quake. He educates himself and studies earthquakes and does experiments on water tables to figure out how to make buildings stronger to hold up to quakes.
We found SF Garage via a company that does restoration for our building. They referred SF Garage to us to fix a unreinforced rear retaining wall in our yard. The wall had numerous huge cracks and was crumbling. This is not such a big deal but we sit about 13 feet high above our neighbors behind us. If the wall gave way in a quake, we would be in trouble. The yard is all packed sand! SF Garage excavated our yard 13 feet down, filled our yard with cement and built a new wall. Yaay!
I can not recommend The Pollard Groups: SF Garage & Mercury Engineering and John Pollard enough!
SF Garage: (415) 826‑0606

I have been a client for over 10 years Very satisfied and thankful of the Quailty work !
I have many soft story projects under way and in planning Thanks SFGarage

We had a great experience with San Francisco Garage Company and the entire team. John Pollard came highly recommended from a friend who is a developer on SF and always uses his services. We reached out to John after getting several very high bids from other companies known to do good work. He has a big crew and is very knowledgeable and sharp about retrofit, structural and drainage work. He was the only one who suggested a more economical way to change from our tandem parking situation into being able to move each of our two cars in and out independently. Others had solutions but the solutions were extremely extensive and expensive. He also was more competitive price wise. It was a no brainer. His suggestion re the parking worked and we are thrilled with the results. Collin was great as was Alan, the project manager, who handled our questions and concerns with poise and professionalism. The team who worked on our garage were always hard working, efficient and extremely professional. Our neighbors were also impressed with the them. Thanks John and SF Garage, glad we chose you guys.

I’ve worked with SF Garage Co on two remodels. High Quality Work. Good Customer Service. Competitive Prices. Excellent at Soft Story — Seismic retrofit work. They also help affordable housing projects, a bonus in my book!

I had these guys build a garage and additional unit for me and had a great experience. I had several other people come out bid on this but SF Garage gave me the best price and this was the company recommended to me by my neighbors.
They’re extremely knowledgeable about the local codes and were able to handle the engineering and permitting for me way faster than I expected. Highly recommended!

This company is like a swiss watch. We had to comply with the city to do a soft story.
They did the required screening form and the soft story retrofit from a to z. We were very nervous at first, because we have heard of horror stories of construction projects, so we had our fingers crossed. Our project was completed in a very timely matter, the building stucco, floor, interior was finished like it had never gone thru such project. We uncrossed our fingers, and give a high five to SF Garage.

They expanded our garage installing a steel rail along the ceiling and removing vertical pillars; now it’s side by side parking. Professional, smooth, courteous, timely, clean operations and I can’t be more pleased with their work!

Wow! I had my Soft Story Screening form submitted at no charge. John Pollard is very knowledgable about the process, his staff is efficient and helpful, and I was impressed with the prompt notice of acceptance from the Soft Story Program. I look forward to working with SF Garage on the next phase.

I have used SF Garage for 5 jobs in San Francisco, ranging from adding a garage to my two unit building to seismic upgrades of soft story buildings, to full remodels of apartments. I can’t say enough good things about this company and it’s owner John Pollard. I would highly recommend using them and I will continue to use them for all of my future jobs.

Full disclosure — I personally know John Pollard. He did a bathroom renovation for my house that is mindblowing, it is so good I invite friends over to use my shower and they still talk about it whenever I see them. His team is innovative, knows the code inside and out, and knows how to get things done. I count myself fortunate to know John, but even more fortunate to have had his team make my bathroom the oasis it is.

John Pollard and his team are simply one of the best companies in the Bay Area. Everyone who works at SF Garage is friendly, smart and customer energetic from the top to the bottom. I have done an extensive job with John and everything has flowed seamlessly. I love all the workmen. Jeffrey is a great project manager and I feel lucky he managed my job — but my guess is all the project managers at SF Garage are great because John Pollard runs a tight ship. If you want quality work at a fair price with good people — this is your company!

San Francisco Garage Company is the place to go when you are looking for the traditional construction experience. You will get all the good talk and promises regarding their years of experience and seamless timely delivery. The whole process was an absolute disaster and there seemed to be a severe lack of planning and coordination. There were weeks without any crew and then they showed up sporadically. Often the crew did not appear to know what to do and was on the phone trying to get some advise. Calls to the office and emails did not get answered. and the project took 4x as long as promised. A Major Mess!

No one can get you through the planning, engineering, concrete and final build out better than sf garage. I’ve seen SF Garage complete jobs that other companies say can’t be done. On top of all of this they are very competitive priced.

I renovated my home adding a 4^th story addition and was required to complete a full seismic upgrade. SF Garage was hired to complete the seismic work framing the first 3-​stories with steel, new foundation and slab. That was the easy part. Keeping up the permits, inspections while maintaining peace with San Franciscan neighbors was the real trick.
They will build my next house.

Had to gut remodel 3 bathrooms in 6 weeks (ok– it took 8) but John and his amazing crew pulled it off. We designed on the fly and Jeffrey Lee was the foreman not missing a single detail and coming up with great ideas and alternatives when we got stuck on issues. I have never seen such a hard working and dedicated crew. I miss them! Maybe now I’ll think about the kitchen…

I am a small developer in the city and SF Garage has now completed 5 garages for me over the past 4 years. They get the job done like no other. I secured 3 bids for the last garage and he brought in the job at 30% below the competing bids. no one knows there way around the permitting process than John Pollard. His forman Marteen runs a great crew.

what a fabulous operation. we needed our garage expanded and john came out, gave us a quote and time guidelines. His crews were professional and expert in their individual trades. Project completed on time and perfect. Could not ask for better. If you need garage work call these folks.