We hired this company to clean our couch. We used an Amazon local deal, which cost $45. Arunas showed up and said it would be an extra $60 on top of the deal because it was a 4-piece secional couch, which was annoying but understandable. Still a good deal for this size couch. I agreed and he went to work. Then the storm came...while elsewhere in the house, my husband and I looked at our camera system to check on our two kids napping...we have four rooms on camera, including the one in which he was cleaning. We watched in horror as he spilled a 5-gallon bucket of water on our pristine hardwood floors. We went upstairs to help clean up, but there was so much water it was standing on the floors for about 10+ minutes. Under the couch, the media cabinet, in the kitchen, etc. He told us not to worry, that it would "dry up" and to just leave the water under our $4,000 media cabinet from Room and Board. We insisted on getting his help to lift up the media cabinet to dry underneath and put towels down to air it out. 24 hours later the floorboards started bowing on an approximately 8' x 8' area of the hardwood floors and we called him to investigate. He came and acknowledged that the water did "look like it caused some damage." He said, again, don't worry and that it will "dry up" and that the floorboards would "return to normal" (obviously they haven't). After two estimates for repair (one sent by him), at approximately $6,000 worth of damage, and worrying about mold in the floor: Arunas has stopped returning our calls and gone silent, and we've left him dozens of messages. So, we paid $125 for a nice clean couch ($45+$60+$20 tip) and $6,000 for a ruined floor. You do the math.
I was fully prepared to offer a 4-star review (taking away 1 star for the spill) based on how Pro Steamer handles the situation, because accidents do happen, and when a company works hard to correct a mistake I think it says a lot about their character. Unfortunately, this company is COMPLETELY IGNORING us.
We are in the process of hiring leg@l counsel to force them reconcile with us and engage the insurance that they claim to have (on their website) to fix this horrible damage. Review will be updated pending how Pro Steamer Carpet Cleaner fixes this situation. Regardless, our enormous family room/kitchen has to be torn up, rebuilt, resanded, restained and revarnished and we will have to move us and our two babies out of the house for a week while the work is done.
If you want to work with a responsible company with a great work ethic, keep searching. Let the simple truth of our story with Pro Steamer Carpet Cleaner guide your decision. These aren't even extraordinary circumstances - spills happen all the time and that is why insurance companies are in business.
UPDATE on 8/24/2012: We paid a couple of thousand dollars to have our floors redone. He continues to completely ignore us (even though he signed for registered letters) so we are filing a l@wsuit. I could go into more detail but honestly I'm tired of talking about him. Ugh. read more