Repulsive lack of integrity from everyone outside the sales room. There's only so much damage to the customer experience the sales team can compensate for. This experience was way outside of those limits. Only do your remodeling with these folks if you are a penny-pincher in every other aspect of your life and have no regard for quality. Otherwise you'll probably have a very distressing experience. I remodeled 4 rooms, a kitchen, and 2 bathrooms with EZ Floors. I had a good experience only in the showroom- matching and picking out tile, backsplash, hardwood, granite, and a shower. The end result looks nice to me- because we picked everything out with the sales team and I personally fixed a lot of crap- but the installation process was an absolute nightmare.
What I really should have done with these folks is took 2 weeks off of work and micro-managed what every single person that stepped into my house did, or just spent a few thousand extra dollars and remodeled with someone else. The EZ Floor employee hardwood installers quite literally vandalized my newly painted walls. I have never seen anybody walk into a house and treat it with such disregard under legal circumstances. They put together my hardwood like kids playing with legos and left hundreds of gaps visible under a casual inspection. They left H-Joints, Stair Step patterns, and installed ugly or damaged boards which should have been put aside or thrown away. I have half a dozen boards that have audible signs of delamination, and have a handful of boards that weren't glued down- one small piece with not a speck of glue on it. I got an NWFA consultation, spoke with other hardwood installation companies, and my conclusion is that I got one of the worst floor installations legally possible. The repair team jacked around with me, lied to me on a dozen occasions- including giving me their technical "opinion" that the floor was installed correctly-, and let me think they were actually going to do something to fix my amateur installed floor but just stopped talking to me completely. They offered to put wood filler that doesn't even match on my floor. I don't want a hardwood floor that looks like tile and grout or brick and mortar, The granite installers cut a hole for the soap dispenser in a spot where the soap dispenser would not physically even fit. I had all the kitchen hardware available for the installers to look at before they started cutting holes but they didn't have the foresight to think it was necessary.
I spent dozens of hours of my spare time before work, after work, and on the weekends fixing what the EZ Floor employees and subcontractors jacked up in my house: picking out powder wood filler, custom mixing it to match my floor, filling every single gap between planks on my hands and knees, touching up paint on walls and doors, completely repainting 1 wall, buying plumbing parts that sub-contractors threw away but I still needed, fixing the RO filtration system because it was audible in the other room and not even filtering correctly- subcontracted plumber claimed it was behaving normally, moving the primary AC drain pipe- which the subcontracted plumber told me should be moved- back to its original and correct position, removing a leaking shower head and re-installing it with plumber's tape. Lots of touch ups like cleaning up pencil marks from the shower tile, cleaning wood glue out from between hardwood planks, wiping off concrete from my baseboards.
The only redeeming factor here is that the sales team will work with you on stuff that sub-contractors mess up. Pretty much everything except hardwood/carpet flooring is sub-contracted. I didn't get a satisfactory offer to compensate for what the EZ Floor employees did, and their job was the worst. My guess is that is because it would come out of EZ Floor's budget instead of a sub-contractor's, or, just as likely, that I paid my bill in full too early.
The most distressing part about this was the repair team jacking around with me. I called BS on them when they gave me their "technical expertise" stating that gaps between my tongue and groove engineered hardwood boards were necessary because of expansion and contraction of the wood. That is a novel idea.. whose arse was it pulled from? This is not an NWFA standard. I got an NWFA consultation, and consulted with other hardwood installation companies and they called it the same as me: BS. After calling BS on them they stuck to their "opinion". What reputable hardwood installation company would be brazen enough to send out people to walk into your home and lie to your face in the name of technical expertise? None in my opinion. EZ Floors does not seem reputable to me, and though I am a one time return customer I definitely will not be going back, nor would I recommend them to anybody. read more