****BUYER BEWARE****
This company is an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with. We purchased cabinets for my mothers home. Were very eager to get them installed since we had major renovations done to our kitchen at the time and had to work with several contractors. The cabinets we were told would take about 5 days to install. We showed alot of good faith and even paid them in full in advance. BIG MISTAKE as it was clear and obvious that they had put us at the end of their list now that they had received the payment. The guy who came to install them kept making excuses that he had other jobs very far away in "Chicago" so he was unable to come. This went on and on. The guy would stop in 1 day of any given week and brought 2 or 3 guys with him and they'd "work" for about an hour then leave. Several times we saw them laying in our yard taking a break, sitting in their car blasting music and eating all the while no real progress was being made.
After 4 MONTHS only 2 or 3 cabinets had actually been installed. We had to push back the granit installation multiple times because they could not set it since the cabinets had yet to be finished installing. During this entire time all we got was excuses as to how there was no way they could come install this week, but would definitely be here next week to finish everything. This went on and on until we told them we needed it done or we were going to hire someone else to do it. As you can see after 4 months for a 5 day project we had exhausted all of our patience. Even after we told them that they STILL did not come out. According to them, they had an "important party" and could not come AGAIN. (Thats right... a party)
We called a gentlemen out of Spring Grove IL who came out to quote us. He immediately told us every single cabinet that had been installed was not aligned properly and would have to be taken down and reinstalled. This meant it was going to cost us more now than it would have originally had Western Expo never tried installing in the first place. We accepted because at this point it was going to be 5 MONTHS without a functioning kitchen in our home. After we accepted this price the man started work that same day and was done in just 3 DAYS BY HIMSELF. All the cabinets we had were up, mounted and aligned. That however is not the end of this nightmare. Since we had purchased these cabinets and the installation initially with Western Corps the person in charge of installing was also in charge of bringing the cabinets to our home. They never brought everything even after 4 almost 5 months. We had to adjust on the fly because many cabinets were missing crucial components. At this point we told them we simply wanted a refund for the installation alone, since it had been done wrong and was grossly past their project completion date. THEY REFUSED. We told them they were being extremely unreasonable and that if they did not refund us the installation in full we would take them to court for all the repairs that had to be made. This is because they broke and damaged many of the cabinets during their 4 month long "installation" as well as damaging floors and walls. They still refused. We took them to court which was another long and strenuous process. Luckily it was very clear to the judge that they were completely out of line. The judge handed us a verdict that manged to return our installation deposit, cover the cost of repairs, the cost of hiring a new person and the court costs. If there's ever been a company that held the TITLE of being RUDE, INCOMPETENT, LAZY, & UNQUALIFIED it would have a difficult time competing with this one. read more