It was my experience, as well as several others that I have observed, that Gillece Plumbing will offer a low price, but once on site will be unable to fix the problem for that low price and will diagnose a much larger problem with a much higher cost and hit you with a high pressure sales pitch. They are also very hard to contact and deal with should you have a problem.

I called Gillece Plumbing about the faucet in my tub and sewage backing up in my basement. Their ad in the phone book said $99 drain cleaning and free video inspection. They came and in addition to the $99 drain cleaning added $87.50 access because I have no basement access from outside. They couln't snake it open so had to use the video camera and wanted to charge $1200 for that if I declined their quote on the sewer. They quoted $1998 for a new faucet in the tub and $13950 to fix the sewer. I passed on the faucet replacement but got another quote of $400 to $500. I will never use Gillece again!

I have an expensive, supposedly-complex (as indicated by a previous plumber who fixed an unrelated problem) faucet in my kitchen that developed a leak. The plumber that I usually use is a single guy in business for himself (as opposed to the large business that Gillece is), and he was unavailable due to health issues. I blindly called Gillece. What a mistake. They charged the standard $65 to come to my house to look at the problem. I thought that I would also ask them to fix 2 bathroom faucet handles and one bathroom faucet, all with minor issues, while they were there. Once in my door, they quoted me a price of $170 per faucet, regardless of the problem. So the loose handle on the bathroom faucet (that ultimately took my friend 5 minutes to fix) would cost $170, just like the kitchen faucet which would require a complete dismantle and rebuild. I told the nice "representative" plumber from Gillece to not let my doorknob hit him on the butt on the way out the door, and just at the $65. My friend fixed all but the kitchen faucet in a total of 15 minutes. Those three jobs that took my friend 15 minutes would have cost me $510 from Gillece (3 x $170). Do the math - that is $2040 per hour, folks!!!