BUYER BEWARE! This review may be long, but it's worth the read if you don't want to waste $$$Thousands of Dollars only to be left with a mediocre floor!!! Don't let the 5-Stars fool you. Although the workers were quite pleasant and did a good job, the manager and owner is unreliable, rude and definitely not trustworthy. He'll tell you one thing in person, and then wriggle his way out of any verbal commitment he made with you. And that's only if he bothers to call you back! The job they did on our floors was ok but we had to have our walls repainted because of the marks and scratched the crew made with their equipment. And there were several areas that I had to point out to them that were definitely NOT satisfactory...including an area in the upstairs hallway where the topcoat was applied quite poorly. So, why am I pointing out areas to the professionals? Can they not see them for themselves? We were not aware until after the job was started that one of the workers was being trained. Now maybe it's just me but if I'm paying for a professional job to be done in my home...I want professionals doing it. My home is not a training ground where "newbies" can learn from their mistakes. They had to return to "re-refinish" these areas...which are still only satisfactory...not professional.
We asked for an estimate on having our stairs rebuilt during the floor refinishing job his crew was currently doing for us in April. He gave an estimate and said it would be around July that the stairs could be done. I agreed to give the downpayment when we paid him for the floor job since it had not yet been completed. I asked if we could be considered for an earlier time if his schedule allowed and he said he would see what he could do. We waited until the middle of July and heard nothing back. After several months of our emails and phone calls NOT being returned, I was finally able to reach him to ask about the timeline for the stairs. HE TOLD ME OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER!!! He said he never put it on the schedule because we had not yet paid for the floor job and had not given him a downpayment for the stairs which I told him would be paid when the floor was finished. We had not paid him for the floor yet because the floor had STILL not been completed...and this was now JULY!! The crew had sanded into one of our existing floor reducers which had to be replaced (at their expense) and the rest of the floor had areas that needed touching up which was not completed until JULY (the job was started in April)!
SO...DON'T ACCEPT ANY VERBAL AGREEMENT FROM RALPH. GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING OR YOU'LL BE SORELY DISAPPOINTED AND PLAYED LIKE A FOOL...WE WERE!!! read more