Please allow me to spend a moment sharing my worst customer experience ever, which of course occurred at Lowe's. In April 2024, Lowe's sold me porcelain tile for my kitchen, dining, and laundry area. They installed the tile in late April, and it was an absolutely awful job. No spacers were used, grout lines were crooked, and the floor was uneven. They got grout all over my kitchen cabinets and moved the appliances back before the tile had set. There was even a partial piece of tile under my stove that caused one side to be higher than the other. They also used the wrong grout color. Service Pros, who handled the installation, sent out an inspector who immediately determined that they "owed me a floor" because of how inept the installer had been. Then began the miscommunication and stalling nightmare I am still living to this day (July 5, 2024). Multiple installers came out, each citing a different reason why tile would not work on my floor (subfloor, dishwasher, house settling, doors). Lowe's installation has called me so many times I lost count, each not knowing what the others have said, but they all admit that they should have never sold me the floor or installed it in the first place. The Installation support team has told me everything from "tile might work if you pay a contractor to level the floor and replace your doors," to "LVP will work," to "only sheet vinyl will work"; one even told me I could only use carpet...in a kitchen. On June 25th, an installer came who tore up 3/4 of the tile they had originally laid to "see what the problem with the subfloor" is. They left me with partial tile, mostly subfloor with screws sticking up from it, and some concrete board, mortar, and chunks of tile, which I have been walking on since. After 3 conversations with Lowe's and 3 with Service Pros in just under 2 days, I finally just asked them to install sheet vinyl, like I had before, as soon as possible so I could use my kitchen again. That was on June 26th. Today, July 5th, I still have no installation date. This week, I have received two emails that they have to do a lead paint assessment, even though my home was built in 1997 and does not require one, and a second request for a measurement even though they measured yet again for sheet vinyl this week. Apparently, they cannot use the same measurement for tile on a sheet vinyl job, for reasons unknown to me. I have communicated with the store multiple times, and that has been my best experience, although once the information hits the Lowe's installation team, the nightmare starts all over again. I spoke to someone on the installation team yesterday who gave me the Lowe's Corporate Installation number, but when I called it, it was a number for medical alert devices. So far, I have received no compensation or offer of compensation from Lowe's, and I still don't have a floor. Again, this project started in April, and it is now July. Yesterday, the installation team called me and requested $5,000 for the sheet vinyl before they could schedule the installation. For reference, the Stainmaster porcelain tile they originally installed was just over $5,000. Obviously, sheet vinyl does not cost as much as porcelain tile to install; additionally, there is no way I am paying Lowe's again considering they never completed the first job. The way I see it, it is only reasonable for Lowe's to completely reimburse me at this point. If I had known then what I know now, I would have kept the floor I had. I urge you, if you need flooring installation, look elsewhere. read more