I was torn as to awarding 2 or 3 stars but settled on 3 because there were some positives. Buckle up, and I'll tell you why.
We were in the market for a flooring company to remove our old carpet in two rooms and install hardwood flooring. After two estimates with two companies, we settled on The Good Guys based on many positive reviews, a reasonable quote, timing of the project, and our very positive interaction with Steve, the salesman. We were so excited to finally be getting our house updated!
We scheduled our demo and install for a Friday in May 2020 and were told it would be a 2-day project. Cool! Here's where things went south.
Day 1 (Friday):
Two-man crew arrived on time and was quick to get started on pulling up the carpet. Steve, the salesman, and a husband/wife team arrived to get going on the project and left shortly thereafter. The crew worked all day Friday and left around 6pm after a full day of work with the promise to return Saturday.
Day 2 (Saturday):
Same two-man crew arrived close enough to the morning scheduled time, slightly late but not too bad. Worked all day and as 8:00pm neared they were still clearly working hard but also still had a TON of work left to do. Slightly disappointing because we were told this was a 2-day job and it clearly wasn't. The two guys left and said they would come back on Sunday at 9:00am to finish.
Day 3 (Sunday):
9:00am... no sign/no call. 10:00am.... no sign/no call. Finally, around 10:30am I call our salesman and left a VM. I also message Beth, the manager, on a Yelp asking for any update as to arrival or anything. She was very responsive and had someone call me. He tells me the guys overslept and would be at our house in about 30 minutes and would be finished quickly as there was only "clean-up" left to do. Well, that must be what the crew told him because we looked in the rooms and the flooring was only half-installed in one, there was no trim on the wall, definitely a clean up was in order, AND our torn up carpet/pad was still on our front yard (sorry, neighbors)..
12:20pm.... the crew shows up - 3 hours after the original arrival time and nearly 2 hours after the second arrival time. The crew left around 5 or 6 and still hadn't installed transitions, the trim on the walls was sloppily installed (gapping from the wall, broken pieces put on the wall, etc.), planks were misaligned and the new floors had tons of adhesive on them.
I'll wrap this up. Day 4-6 all blur together now, were beyond frustrating and filled with much of the same from days 2-3: late arrivals, no shows, incomplete work, and lazy cleanup. The crew had started a new job so we were put on the back burner to just get our small job finished. I say our job is a small job because we were told that they were working on a 22 bedroom house in Highland Park and he had to go get supplies for that.
The one thing that I will commend is that Steve was responsive and easy to get ahold of and also went above and beyond to make our trim look nice for us in the end. We were happy with our interactions with Steve.
On Day 6: they finally installed the transitions that had to be reordered because they broke the originals. Granted, they were over 2 hours late - again. The install manager, Robert, cleaned the floors and they appeared clean to us. Sigh of relief - this just might be all resolved!
Day 6 evening: excited to see the floors, I popped in to admire our (finally finished) rooms! My bubble was burst when there was still tons of small spots of adhesive ALL over the floors. Beyond frustrated with this process, we did not want to have to call the company again because, frankly, we were over having this crew working in our house. Over the course of 2-3 hours, we scrubbed (SCRUBBED) the floors with Magic Erasers - thanks, Google - to try to remove as much adhesive as we could before it really settled. In the end, we went through 6 Magic Erasers, lots of tears shed, and a lot of elbow grease and have floors that were are just happy to be finished working on.
Extras: adhesive was tracked onto our existing bamboo floors and the bathroom tile which we are still working to remove, the crew was very rough with our pocket doors of the bathroom and they had to be fixed. The Good Guys offered to fix them, which we appreciated since they were fine before this project. They are back at 90% and, again, we were just exhausted from this project and decided to stop fighting with the crew and just accept the 90% restoration of the door movement. We will tackle that project ourselves another day. read more