My husband and I purchased a whirlpool fridge and matching dishwasher at your North Windham, CT location on December 23rd, 2016. We were assisted by Doug in the appliance department. Doug was wonderful, helpful, informative and available without being pushy. He helped us make our choices and also helped us with the decision to purchase the extended warranty on our fridge. Our purchase total, including the parts and installation on the dishwasher, was close to $2000.
Our products could not be scheduled for delivery until Jan 14th, which was fine and understandable. Lots of people buy appliances around the holidays. We find out on Jan 13th that our shipment is in two deliveries for some reason - and they are scheduled from 10-2 for the fridge, and from 1-5 for the dishwasher, which leaves us stuck in the house waiting, all day.
It's upsetting but not the end of the world. We clean and empty out our fridge and await delivery. That is, until the company who you paid to deliver our fridge calls us to tell us their trucks do not drive up hills, and will not be attempting to make delivery of our fridge because our driveway is a hill.
We have lived in this house for five years and have had all sorts of delivery trucks successfully navigate our driveway. We were very upset. The delivery driver told us he would be coming up to our house to see if they could even get the fridge in the door, but unless WE provided a truck to get the fridge up the driveway there was nothing they could or would do. They told us we would have to contact Home Depot. They refused to walk the fridge up with their handtruck. My husband walked down to meet them, but apparently they changed their minds and just drove off with our fridge.
I called the store to ask what to do. When a manager called me back she was astonished and said this had never happened before. She also indicated that the company did not have a manager or anyone on duty to discuss how we would be getting our fridge.
At this point, we are extremely frustrated. BUT that is not the end of the day. Our dishwasher arrives - somehow, the truck made it up to our house. Wonderful. The techs remove our old dishwasher and install the new one, which is beautiful and looks fantastic! They leave.
About two hours later, I go into the kitchen to prepare dinner and almost fall on my soaking wet floor. I pull open the cabinet under the sink to find that the hose that the techs hooked up is spraying water.
My husband and I are not plumbers, which is why we paid the money to have it installed by who we were assured were professionals. I call Home Depot yet again and speak to another manager, who again was polite and shocked to hear that our dishwasher was not hooked up correctly and we had a hose spraying our kitchen down. He gives us a number to call the company who installed the dishwasher.
We call, and are told the techs will call us back with their arrival time, and that they understand plumbing is a serious issue. Apparently they don't, because the techs tell us they cannot get back to us until Monday or Tuesday! Which means my husband and I have to:
Take time off of work to be at home waiting. Not only Monday but perhaps Tuesday, And who knows what that call is going to be about? Will we get someone out here to fix things on Monday or Tuesday, or will we be forced to take multiple days off of work?
Close off the water to our sink/kitchen to keep from flooding, which we can only do after we call a friend who has somewhat of an idea of how to do this. See again, we are not plumbers, which is why we paid for the professional installation.
So here we are, having paid no small amount of money for new appliances promised to be delivered and installed by January 14th. We have half of our order, however, we cannot even use that half that we do have!
Home Depot employees have been helpful, but the companies you contract out to delivery and install are lacking and I am very upset. My husband and I wasted an entire Saturday at home waiting for appliances that either did not arrive or were installed incorrectly. I don't know how you can have a delivery company in New England that is incapable of driving up hills, and even tries to push responsibility on your customers by implying they need to get a truck. I don't like to complain, but I feel very disillusioned by Home Depot at this point and thought you should know you have extremely disappointed customers.
I have sent PMs through facebook, where I was told to email the social media team my info. I did that on Monday morning. No response. I asked on facebook when I would be acknowledge, no response.
TL;DR - DO NOT purchase anything for delivery from Home Depot if you have an incline on your driveway. They will refuse to deliver. Do not pay money for these "professionals" to install dishwashers. They are not professionals. read more