The best of Toledo, from people who'd know

We've spent 25 years on roofs and ladders in Perrysburg, Sylvania, Maumee, and every street in between. You learn a lot about a town that way. You learn which crews show up when they say they will, which ones clean up after themselves, and which ones still answer the phone two years after the job is done.

So when a homeowner asks us for help with something that isn't ours to fix, we don't shrug. We send them to people we'd trust in our own homes. This is that list. Every business here earned its spot the hard way, by doing right by Toledo families long before we ever put them on a page.

Heating & Cooling — All Seasons

All Seasons has kept Toledo warm for three generations, still running on what they learned from Grandpa Bob and Grandma Barb. Read their reviews and the same word keeps coming up: refreshing. They give you a straight answer and an honest option — no BS sales pitch, they arrive when promised and call before they come, and they clean up like they were never there. 100% of their reviewers recommend them. When the furnace quits in February, this is who we'd call.
→ allseasonstoledo.com

Plumbing — T&J Rooter Service

T&J holds the BBB Torch Award for Ethics, the same recognition we earned in 2025, and that shared standard is exactly why they're on this list. They're also family-run with a 4.8 rating across 700-plus reviews — and, as it happens, our neighbors: their shop sits on South Avenue, a few blocks from our own. What earns the reviews is the showing-up: an 11 p.m. call in a snowstorm for clogged pipes, and they came, did the job, and cleaned up. More than once a homeowner with a checkbook out at 10:30 at night was told the estimate was free.
→ tandjrooterservice.com

Electrical — Great Lakes Electrical Contracting

Family-owned since 1987 and BBB-accredited since 1999, Great Lakes has wired Toledo homes for the better part of four decades. They're also an authorized Generac dealer — worth knowing in a region where a summer storm can take the power out for days, and a standby generator is the difference between an inconvenience and a flooded basement. Their customers single out the same thing we'd want: techs who walk you through the options, then clean up the worksite each day before they leave.
→ glecinc.com

Concrete & Driveways — Stall's Concrete Construction

Stall's runs on one principle: treat every project like we're building it for our own yard. Thirty-plus years in Northwest Ohio means they know exactly what our freeze-thaw winters do to a slab, and they pour to outlast them. It's still a father-and-son operation — John and his son Sean — and you feel it in the details: one homeowner described them offering suggestions that saved money even when it came out of their own pocket, keeping a clean job site, and showing up on time.
→ stallsconcrete.com

Basement Waterproofing — EverDry Waterproofing of Toledo

Toledo sits on clay, and clay holds water, which is why a wet basement is one of the calls almost every homeowner around here eventually has to make. EverDry has been answering it since 1986 — twenty thousand basements in the Greater Toledo area alone, a patented system, and a free inspection that tells you what's actually going on down there. The proof shows up years later, in reviews that read like this one: the basement was always damp and musty when it rained, and it's stayed dry fifteen years on. Waterproofing is something you want to buy exactly once. They're built to make that true.
→ everdrytoledo.com

Interior Painting — Lee's Re-Creation

When a painter puts booties on his shoes and on the legs of his ladder, you already know how the rest of the job is going to go. That's Lee's Re-Creation — family-owned, A+ with the BBB, Sherwin-Williams on the walls, and a lifetime workmanship warranty behind every job, which is a standard we happen to respect around here. Homeowners keep calling David Lee's crew back room after room and year after year, and the reviews all land in the same spot: on time, cleaned up every evening, did exactly what they promised. Good paint is the easy part. Showing up like a guest in someone's home is the rest of it.
→ leesrecreation.com

Home Inspection — CAI Home Inspection & Engineering

CAI is engineer-led — founded in 2010 by licensed engineer Matthew Kiefer — and it shows. While plenty of inspectors are in and out in an hour, CAI takes three to four, because the point isn't to check a box, it's to tell you the truth about the house. They cover the full picture too: radon, mold, termite, sewer scope, and thermal imaging. For anyone buying, selling, or just wanting to know where they stand, they're the most thorough name in town.
→ cai-ohio.com

Real Estate — Wiens & Roth

A boutique brokerage with a 4.9 rating across 159-plus reviews, Wiens & Roth was founded by Aaron and Melanie Wiens on a simple idea: focus on relationships, not transactions — which is about the highest compliment we know how to pay. Clients say the same thing over and over: they never felt rushed, pressured, or overwhelmed, and always got an honest opinion. They know Sylvania, Perrysburg, and Maumee the way we do — street by street.
→ wiensandroth.com

Junk Removal — Gentle Hippo Junk Removal

Gentle Hippo is family-owned and run by three brothers — Josh and Justin Lesniak and Garrett Sierra, BBB-accredited and based right in Perrysburg. Their values are posted on the wall — Integrity, Respect, Communication — and they treat your property as if it were their own. The old furniture, the cleared-out garage, the weekend that got ambitious: they call ahead, you point, they haul, and whatever can be reused gets donated rather than dumped.
→ gentlehippojunkremoval.com

The roof, the siding, the windows, the gutters? That part's ours, and it's backed for life by our Gold Standard Protection. Everything else, we'll point you to the right people. Because a strong home is built by a community that looks out for its own.