The main reason I picked Hatloes I was told that they have their own employees do the work which is not true according to the installers that came to my home, they use contractors. I went to their store on May 6 working on a complete kitchen remodel, I needed flooring, counter top, sink and fixtures, paint, tile back splash and I found the tile I had to have, I planned the entire kitchen floor to ceiling around this one imported tile from Turkey. I was told that they could get it within a week don't worry, it is in the warehouse this was the first of the many times I inquired via email, phone and in person over a two and a half month period and was told the same thing. On that same day I selected the counter top and asked for a bid, got it quick. I then selected a couple different floor samples, thought about it for five days, showed a friend and said yes this is the one.
Then it started, not returning phone calls, phone calls being screened, not replying to emails, appointments changed, example; when I called to find out if Jill was still coming to see the kitchen for planning materials and also measure the floors since she was late for the appointment I was told she was with another customer and the owner was coming to measure my floors. The owner of company comes hurrying into my home in his shorts apologizing like crazy for his appearance with his wife waiting out in the truck because they are on their way to a baseball game and the person that was suppose to measure was ill, but later Jill told me it was her son that was ill, neither of them knew I had called to see what was happening with the appointment. OK 1st benefit of doubt. Then it was not until a month later June 4th that anyone checked on the flooring, just guess, not available it had been recalled and Jill was not sure why they even had a sample on the floor for customers to choose. I had to start all over again and I was not looking for easy tan vinyl floor that everybody has. I finally settled on something that would work, but not super great and it is on the east coast, 16 days to get to Seattle. The counter top and sink which I purchased from Hatloes gets installed by another company while waiting for the flooring. Then on July 9th the floor installers arrive they think the prep work is great and this will not take more than 3 or 4 hours, they were happy, not going to take anytime at all. Just guess, they did not bring enough flooring, someone did not order enough or measuring was wrong, or not sure, but everyone was pointing fingers and the installer wanted to put a seam in the middle of the kitchen from end to end of the high traffic area, my husband said no and now the installer is really ticked off and really has an attitude. He has to wait a couple of hours for more flooring to be delivered, does a very poor job, no complete glue, no complete trimming, no cleaning etc.. and leaves. The next day Jill comes to see the work and measure for the back splash, I tell her I want to be done with the back splash at the end of July, it is July 10, she has known the plan all along. She has a clipboard writing stuff down while pointing out poor work that she says needs to be fixed and now we have to wait until Monday before the installer can come back and finish the job completely. He comes for about 30 minutes, does some trimming around the edges and tells my husband if we want anything else fixed with the floor we need to talk to Jill, he has nothing else to fix on his list. I call leave a message, then have to email the store Jill tells me via email that the installer fixed everything. The molding does not fit due to there is vinyl up the side of the cabinets, there are deep scratch marks from trim knives on my brand new 16K custom cabinets, the seams are splitting apart just a little bit in multiple places after 6 days, seams are crooked some cut high some cut low. They did send a different contractor a couple days later blaming us conflict w/contractor, to fix as much as he could, he was not able to fix it all. Then I get an email on July 15 stating that the tile I have been asking about since May 7th is not available until the end of August and beside that they do not have any installers available until then anyway, does Jill expect me to believe that 5 days earlier she did not know that they had no one to do the work for a month and a half? This is her job. This email also suggested that I might want to select another tile that would be easier to get. As for selecting another tile at this point when the kitchen is complete with the exception of the back splash where the tile is to be used knowing all along from the start of design that the entire kitchen has been focused on this selection of this one tile is just an absurd suggestion.
I did send an email directly to Jim Hatloe at two different email addresses many days ago and never heard a word, I have learned my lesson. I will never recommend Hatloes to anyone ever. read more