Do NOT order a stock front door for your home from Lowes! In store ordering was the easiest part, and they did send someone to measure the door and take pictures of how everything is prior to the install. After that it has all been down hill...save yourself and stay away!
The lady at the door department was great. She was like the door is in stock and install takes 1 day if that. We send the install team with everything you need even the inspection paperwork. Great, pay in full and get scheduled for install. Then, install team arrives and nothing fits on the door. The paperwork they sent for inspection was of a garage door for a property that wasn't my home. Install team kept blaming the store for the mix up of the parts, the door, and paper work. Okay, call the store...it's fine we will get inspection with the city out there after install. Okay, we fail inspection because they used dry wall blue screws and not enough across the top. Call the store (and install team) again. No worries it happens all the time. Okay, well nothing fits on the door, the threshold is off, the matching trim is off, we failed inspection, and this isn't going to work this way. The store goes well the threshold is supposed to have an inch gap from the tile and a gap from where the door meets on the new ones. I go there is NO way am I tripping out the door every time I walk out it. I have never seen a front door with any gaps where people, animals, ADA issues can hurt themselves. What? Next, you have to match the trim around the or you devalue the house (the trim they left was the wrong size so you can see through the crack of the door frame and wall to the outside) I love letting air conditioning out and bugs in. Call the store and install team again, well because of Covid there is a delay on parts. Okay no problem. Wait another week, get updates daily by phone (hours worth of calls) then a month in the calls stop. The store closed out the order since the parts never came in for a pre-hung ready to go door. So I call again and re-open the order. This time the install team and store want videos, pictures, and written description of what's going on. Okay not a problem...send that all in. Months go by and same excuses. Finally after the new year I get a call from Lowes that they have all the parts and it will be fixed after months of back and forth. Install guy arrives and nope, he has no parts, nothing to fix it, and wants to take up the tile floors to get the door in. I'm like ohhhh heck no, I'm not messing with tile and replacing floors for a standard pre-hung door that was supposed to take 1 day in. So then the owner of the install company FaceTimes with me and figured out that Lowes requested the right door jam size, but sent the wrong jam to the house. Okay, so let's get the right one. Now the install owner is on the case.
Well another month goes by and I don't hear from Lowes, The Lowes Install Department, or the Install company owner. Just called in now to get an update and surprise the parts aren't listed to be ordered and the jam is on back order/can't be ordered so they will have to order a new pre-hung door.
To summarize: a pre-hung in stock front door that was supposed to take 1 day to install (that was ordered August 2021) is still not properly installed in June 2022. With now no end date in sight. Between all the phone calls, emails, failed install appointments it has taken me hours and lots of money in time off of work to deal with this. Plus, we are going into Hurricane season so I'm hoping we don't have a storm because I have no faith in the strength of my partially installed front door. To top it all off, Lowes just keeps saying this happens all the time and we will keep working on it. Round and round we go!! read more