We had 2 bathrooms we wanted to remodel. We found ADS Flooring here & Angie's List (immediately responded to project request) as past work w/a different company was a bad experience. The immediate & professional response to our request was the beginning of a GREAT experience w/ADS; owner Tony, office mgr Monique and 3-4 of his installers.
Short review is that they came for in-person measure to estimate within 24-48hrs. They had us scheduled within 2wks. Our job went a bit long, BUT some was due to drywall and framing damage discovered post-demo. Tile work was excellent quality, we were given great suggestions and are happy w/completed work.
So much so, we just signed off on 2 additional projects (kitchen backsplash & fireplace hearth) to be done by ADS Flooring. Price was not the cheapest, but NOT most expensive. We were able to use tile we'd purchased. Their thorough prep work ensures showers/floors will be beautiful & watertight for many years!
Note: Many tile co's require you order tile through them; limiting selection & ability to find best price/quality/value. Also keep in mind while we ALL want our project done immediately, it's far more valuable to find a quality contractor!
Most of those have work scheduled already BECAUSE they do quality work. Have reasonable expectations that it'll take some time to be scheduled unless you have an emergency (actual damage NOT "visitors coming," etc.) or are prepared to pay a rush-job premium.
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We highly recommend ADS for your next job!
Tl;dr version w/more detail
Background: We'd previously removed our kitchen down to studs, changed layout & bought new flooring for entire home. It's a prior rental property w/long-term tenants who'd not reported a leak and water damage AND attempted unauthorized DIY electrical & paint/wallpaper projects. So most projects became greater in scope due to underlying damage or poor workmanship.
As we completed kitchen, flooring co. referred a "good flooring company w/great deals." We reviewed past work - 1 job in person. We hired them for ~1000sf (plus stairs) of laminate flooring, ~200sf of kitchen tile floor, backsplash, tiled toe-kicks and to re-tile fireplace hearth. Lam flooring turned out decent, tile was atrocious. Hearth tiles literally fell off w/in 2yrs and grout was disappearing from kitchen floor (they "forgot" to tile toe-kicks, we cancelled backsplash after losing faith in their abilities). We were a bit gun-shy but never found the time to do ourselves.
Enter ADS Flooring...
By the time we started bathrooms, we were 1mo away from a new baby. ADS did their best to get us on the schedule ASAP (~1.5-2wks out) after measure & estimate within 24hrs of contacting us. Tony (owner) personally conducted measure/estimate & made excellent recommendations. They happily work w/clients purchasing their own tile.
We completed demo & drywall repair. However, ADS can/will do demo work if you wish and does full end-to-end remodel. They had great referrals for other trades needed. They're def a great firm for those who know little-nothing about remodels and need everything coordinated/completed. In our case, my husband built custom homes and is an electrician. I was a prop mgr for years (later a project mgr) plus I'd worked for Home Depot. So we're pretty handy. It's nice to find a company that can work with either end of the spectrum!
The in-wall prep work (underlayment to hot mop) was of great quality. They custom-framed a shower pan for us to utilize more of the space. Believe me, that extra few inches of width and ~5-6" of depth (vs using prefab fiberglass/acrylic enclosure walls) makes a BIG difference in size of small shower & bathroom! Our larger bathroom got floors, new tub & tiled shower walls. We also opted to have them tile bathroom molding vs wood molding for durability/clean-ability.
We were in a time crunch w/baby coming (& associated family guests) AND able to do most work ourselves. Still, that created scheduling challenges as we needed one bathroom operable during process plus discovered in-wall damage then a delay as we received a damaged bathtub (must be installed in advance, as shower walls are tiled to the tub). Then of course baby came during final 2-3 days of project when tub damage was discovered. ADS was flexible and put things on hold for us while we had baby & purchased/installed a NEW, new tub.
I've attached a couple pics and will update as they complete the new jobs (kitchen - grout repair, tile toe-kicks and fireplace hearth) and as we complete bathroom finish-work to share true before/after. read more