Ordered & was sent 7 boxes of flooring. All looked identical, it was only when my fitter came to fit them that, upon opening the second pack, realised we'd been sent 2 different click systems. Informed by SFD when I raised the issue that it's basically my own fault for not noticing that two identical boxes were different because of the word plus on two of the boxes, something which would have meant nothing to me as the website only sells this colour in one range, so I would never have even considered that the two could be different ranges. Overall, I'm now going to be out fitting costs as I have to pay to have my hallway done as we didn't have enough flooring due to the mix up, the cost of acquiring one extra pack of laminate from a local supplier at double the cost I had paid from SFD (sadly I couldn't afford a second pack from the supplier at that price so had to just get the bare minimum to do one room). SFD openly admitted that even their own staff weren't aware that they had two different types of flooring there, so how am I, as someone who isn't trained in flooring, expected to tell the difference?
SFD offered to collect the two incorrect packs and refund, but made no effort to address the additional costs incurred and just kept saying "not our problem, it's your own fault for fitting some" (even though I would be out of pocket even more if I had stopped my fitter once we had noticed the issue, as I would have had to pay for his time to fit my bedroom AND hallway twice, as opposed to just the hallway!)
As an aside, their delivery was awful too. Turned up at 7:30am (website advises 9-5 delivery slot, and so I would have thought anything outside of these hours would be notified in advance) and dumped the palette of floor, in the rain, blocking my neighbour's car about 5 mins before she had to leave for work. My neighbour then had to help me bring the flooring in as I had only arranged to have a family member over from 9am to wait in for the delivery as I am unable to carry heavy items myself. read more