This was a horrible experience! From practically the beginning, and was never resolved!
First of all, the crew made an appointment for installation, then postponed. Okay, no big deal, stuff happens. Although, this was the first of many times we'd hear excuses. Next, the crew DIDN'T SHOW UP for their newly scheduled time.
One guy came and ripped off the old gutters and our BRAND NEW drip edge on our brand new roof! Ripped it completely off without asking! The manager Doug, and Ron, said it was a standard thing that they do- ripping off drip edges of roofs. But, that is really irrelevant. No one mentioned anything about that to us before doing it, and it was literally a week old. We paid for that drip edge. Doug was very rude.
So, after the rest of the crew no showed, the plan was they would come the next day to install the gutter system, first thing. Surprise, surprise... they were more than two hours late.
While the gutters themselves look really good, and they do, there were many issues. First, the minor issues. There was some sloppy cutting of the edges and scratches on the finish. There was actually a large dried up drop of blood on one of the edges. Gross.
Now the much bigger problems! First, they left my yard TRASHED. And, this was something the salesman harped a good bit on, about how the crew is meticulous about cleaning up. LOL- NO.
They did not put the patio furniture back. They knocked over my plant stand and a few plants, and left them knocked over. There was a random large broom in the yard. Someone dumped out a red liquid in my driveway, and at first, it really concerned me because I have dogs and I had no idea what it was! They threw a piece of trash into my neighbor's yard- an empty tube of adhesive.
Now, the most personally upsetting issue (although, not the last): Not only were there dozens, tens of dozens of screws, and quite a few super long 16 penny nails, lots of washers, and other random debris all around my house, but there were pieces of metal...extremely sharp pieces of metal...literal SHANKS that you could actually kill someone with strewn all around my yard. Some were upwards of six inches long with dagger-sharp ends and razor sharp edges. Why is this so upsetting? Well, I have two kids and two dogs who like to run around the yard constantly. My husband mows the lawn. I like to garden. These pieces of metal could have SERIOUSLY injured any one of us. I was so upset, and for DAYS we were finding these shanks and other sharp metal shavings around the immediate proximity of our house.
So, we called Doug again. Was Doug apologetic? NOPE. Not at all! He made more excuses! One after another! Was not concerned one bit with the prison weapons lying throughout our yard. He reluctantly sent a crew guy back out a few days later to take a look at what we were calling him about.
I showed him the sloppy work. He said there was no excuse. Also said the same for them not showing up and being hours late. Then, I showed him the shanks and metal scraps we'd been finding. He acted appalled, although I highly doubt cared. He said it was ridiculous and that he would have been upset too. That he understood, as a father and a dog owner, that these things were really dangerous, and that the crew should not have left anything behind.
He went around and touched up the paint that had been scratched. And I am assuming he cleaned off the blood stain.
The crew guy agreed that the work was sloppy and he said that he would talk to Doug, because the crew needed to come back and make adjustments to the sloppiness, like rough edges, prying back our brand new shingles (which was another lie in the sales pitch....that they didn't have to mess with the shingles!), the drip edge (that they replaced my brand new one that they ripped off with) was uneven in places, one of the end caps not being well done, but also that the mess they left in the yard was unacceptable.
So, my husband waited to hear back about that. But no one ever called. That was around November 9, 2017.
I was sick of waiting and not getting a call back, so on November 26, 2017, I emailed the company through their website. No one ever contacted us. I waited it out through the holidays, but I'm not waiting any longer.
This company has been the most unprofessional company I've ever done business with. No concern for our time, what we have invested in this gutter system to improve our home, and most of all to our safety. Doug never once owned up to anything, and just made excuses throughout the process. The sales pitch was a joke, considering they didn't live up to many of the things that supposedly made them different. The gutters themselves look good (minus the sloppy details, which you can't see from a distance), and so far as we can tell a few months later, they have worked fine. But, I don't care about that when the company was so unprofessional....and I'd rather my kids or dogs not get sliced up as they play in the yard. read more