Dave's agreed to provide floor sanding services to us. They attempted to do so but did a terrible job. Dave's agreed that we did not receive the level of service we expected and agreed to fully refund us the $826.00 down payment that was charged to our credit card. After weeks of trying to obtain our refund from Dave's they claimed ignorance and said they never agreed to refund our down payment.
We met with Wade from Dave's on January 28, 2016, to discuss refinishing our hardwood floors. Wade provided a proposal to us before leaving our appointment. The proposal for floor refinishing services included sanding and refinishing the kitchen, dinette, pantry, living room, dining, hall, foyer, 1/2 bath, closet, staircase (15 treads, 16 risers), remove and reinstall carpet runner, B & C on stairs, remove & reinstall shoe around cabinets. The total to perform the work as described on the proposal equaled $6,452.00.
We chose to scale the scope of our project down to only include the kitchen, dinette, pantry, 1/2 bath, removal, and re-installation of base shoe for a total of $1,653.00. We verbally accepted this scaled-down proposal and scheduled the project for March 21, 2016, during a telephone conversation with Dave's employee, Jeff.
Dave's then began the work and we had disputes with them about:
* Sanding our pantry (which wasn't supposed to be sanded),
* finishing the floors at a quality lesser than expected (visible lines in the stain finish, hair, and gritty particles),
* failing to adequately seal off rooms and cover furniture (which caused extreme dust everywhere),
* destroying our base shoe and failing to replace it in a manner that matched our existing cabinetry.
it's most important to know that Dave's ultimately agreed to refund our down payment because of these disputes.
Dave's improperly sanded our pantry. Before Dave's started the work, we called them two separate times and told them to remove the pantry from the scope of the work. The first conversation was held with Wade. The second conversation was held with Jeff. Both employees confirmed that the pantry would be removed from the scope of the project. Dave's simply screwed up and ignored our request to leave the pantry out of the scope of the project.
The finish on our floors did not meet the quality we expected. Performing work outside of the scope of the project was the beginning of our problems with Dave's. After Dave's said they completed the project, we found several problems with their work. For example, we found that our floors have visible lines in the finishing work. This suggests that either the finish wasn't properly applied or the buffing process wasn't properly completed. Either way, the floors look bad because of it and that work did not meet the quality we expected. In addition, we have found several hairs and gritty areas below the finish. This suggests that the floors weren't properly vacuumed in between the finish applications and buffing process. The floors look and feel bad because of it. Again, this is not the level of work we agreed on and we were not expecting these imperfections in the finished project.
Unfortunately, our house was a disaster at the completion of the project. We found out that this was because of Dave's employees--for some unexplained reason--removed the plastic protection before they were finished sanding and buffing which caused dust to disseminate and settle everywhere. We also learned that their employees chose to utilize machines that were "easy to handle" but did not have bags to catch the dust that was created. They created a huge mess that they could have been avoided with some easy precautions. This also likely caused the blemishes discussed above.
Dave's destroyed our base shoe in the areas sanded and failed to replace it with an equal quality product that matched our cabinetry. Dave's destroyed the base shoe below our cabinetry when it was sanding our floors. The original proposal was to remove and reinstall (existing) base shoe. But Dave's failed to remove the shoe in a way that preserved it and destroyed it beyond repair. Dave's then agreed to purchase and reinstall new base shoe that matched our cabinetry. But Dave's didn't do that and instead installed shoe that was of an inferior wood and stain than what they destroyed. The shoe still doesn't match to this day.
Dave's came out to our home several times to look at the issues with their work. They assigned a senior member of their team to "fix" the problems. His name is Mike. Upon entering our home, Mike was shown the imperfections in the finished floors and he explained that the only way to fix the damage was to completely re-do them. No thanks.
I called Jeff at Dave's and asked for a full refund of our original payment. And while Jeff said this was an unprecedented request, they will agree to it. But on July 15, 2016, Jeff said Dave's "changed their mind".
Because of their work product and ethics, I won't use again. read more