Likely one of the single worst vendor experiences I have ever had. They had me come in and sign for the direction of the carpeting to be laid out and made a big deal about getting me to sign off on the exact way we preferred the carpeting. Somehow, they screwed that up and installed it the wrong way. The rep, Paul, apologized and said it was completely his fault and that it would be corrected. I suspect he delayed ordering the replacement thinking we would just accept it, because a couple MONTHS later the product they screwed up on, is no longer being made. That debacle is the tip of the iceberg as the installation was problematic as well.
One of my daughters cut her foot because there was a staple left sticking up in the middle of the carpet. When the installer came to try and fix it, he spent a half hour messing around only to say he would have to PULL the carpet for it to be removed. He was alone and I guess expected us to move all of the furniture there? He came back and did remove the nail/staple, but did leave a nice little blemish on the carpeting where he had tried to pull it THROUGH the carpeting the first time.
In my other daughter's room, apparently they did NOT realize the tack strips they used were not compatible with lower pile carpeting. That resulted in little nails being able to be felt. I get it that the edges are rarely touched, but the THRESHOLD area is absolutely 100% unacceptable. Side note there too, they had to attempt to fix it TWICE as the first time they left a couple sharp nails exposed and did not get them all. My daughter likes to play behind her bed, and her feet apparently got near the walls, and she received a nice little cut due to the nails still being partially exposed. BOTH of my children have received bodily injury as a result of the lack of attention to detail. There was also shoddy workmanship in the basement as the seam there was also attempted to be corrected TWICE too. Sad when the second person comes out and tells you it does look off and that it can be corrected. There again, it was eventually corrected, but had to ask them out twice.
I also made the mistake of allowing them to carpet a home I was selling. Paul apparently had LOST the original measurements, and had to schedule another date and time to do it again. Would not be an issue if we were living there at the time, but we were not and had to schedule yet another date and time so he could do it again.
At the time of installation at that house, I showed up to greet the men and let them in the house. So I am talking with the supervisor, and noticed the bathroom door was shut. I knocked and there was one of the installers there sitting on the throne relieving himself and doing his morning business. I was absolutely blown away that a worker would not only use a bathroom before asking, but decided to drop a bomb in my home. The real kicker is the fact the water was isolated and turned off in the home temporarily while an item was being fixed. So a worker decides to contaminate a customer's bathroom, unannounced no less, and then tries to blow it off.
They also failed to reinstall the covers (3 of them) in one room, the closet slide guide in another room, and left the removed doors right in front of a toilet when they left.
All in all a horrible experience that never seemed to get any better. The real kicker is that one of the suggested solutions to the problem is that they would credit me for the error in the room they screwed up, IF I decided to seek new carpeting from a real carpet store. They were saying how they would remove the old carpet, right before I had the new carpet from another company we selected. So not only would they not replace it with similar quality to what they ripped out, but he really did suggest that he would refund the cost of that room to their errors, IF I chose to replace it with another carpet from a different carpeting store?? IT even sounds insane when I write this but that is seriously what was suggested. read more