Can't even begin to express my disappointment with Lowe's customer service, design, delivery & installation services. If you contract a home project, after you've paid, you will never get anyone on the phone... not cabinetry, not flooring, not customer service. Hard to call any of these services professional. Six months (hours and hours of phone calls & emails) and after one weeks-long attempt to remediate the initial install...the seams on our kitchen floor are still incongruous & uneven. I could write a literal book on what we've been through with Sterling Lowe's and their subcontracted installers. For our sanity and peace of mind we are trying to put it behind us. Go somewhere else for your home makeover.
***Follow-up 14 months after project "breaking ground". Complete. Still many more delays after last review, mostly because reorders also incorrect and communication with Lowe's flooring and cabinetry personnel, very difficult over the phone. (Lowe's basically does not answer their phones, and seem to be severely understaffed from a customer service perspective).
From our initial order last October, I believe I've planned & scheduled over three dozen deliveries of parts and replacement parts and supplies and replacement parts -- not including the times they told me I had to come in and pick things up on my own . Oh, and the trucks never show when they are supposed to, and don't unload inside when I paid for it and drivers were sometimes really unpleasant --but so many scheduled days of deliveries because as mentioned above, styles and patterns were mixed and wrong, even within the same order. It's hard for me to leave a comprehensive review of the experience I've had over the last two years with Lowe's, it makes me sound & feel crazy every time!
I guess in the end, I am happy with my kitchen and bath, and the cabinet installation was way less painful than the flooring - owing to a complete lack of expertise and professionalism among the flooring installers (Service Pros). (From the communication, to the complete lack of disregard for my house, and the bathroom, they used --clogging the sink with plaster and leaving piss all over the toilet). Having these crews in my house for weeks on end, and well past the estimated time to completion was a bit of a nightmare...
The quality of the material seems good enough, but in order for it to look good, Lowe's has to hire and retain skilled work. Their contracted work teams came from all over and out of state resulting in the first two tile installations being horrendous. Their centralized "project management" office was very polite, but largely inefficient, and sometimes ineffective. I spent hours & hours holding on the phone for them to coordinate, not to mention updating them with my project progress, which amazingly they didn't often have.
After 2 very poor kitchen floor tile installations & elevating my project management calls through various levels of supervisory, and finally mentioning small business court, the Lowe's district manager and service foreman were in my house the next week. So they finally sent their "best" guy. And he was way better, the 3rd go at a tile floor resulted in a mostly even and level surface!
If you've made it this far in my reviews, then I would obviously recommend that you run fast in another direction for your kitchen and bathroom remodel, unless you have a LOT of time and patience, and/or may be interested in working on your general contractor skills. read more