Overall satisfied with the installation of carpets but would not return as a customer to this location and likely any other location due to poor customer service.
Installed product was done as I expected, and the install team was very professional and met my expectations. To note but was not an issue for me, the installers arrived a ¾ of an hour into the installation window and install took marginally longer than expected window, but were clearly working to their capacity, just the estimation was likely off.
Customer service was below an expected level.
During measurement, Chris Foley (Manager) did not take any Covid 19 precautions, and closed into within 2 meters from myself, resulting in me having to take precautions from him vice him from me in my residence. Managed to not touch much but did help himself to sit at a table. Not satisfactory in todays world and resulted in the customer having to do work to sanitize after his departure.
Manager attempted to up sell me to resurface more than was requested, using the safety of my kids and the dangers of hardwood floors as the rational to resurface more of the desired spaces. This is an incredibly low tactic which in retrospect should have made me reconsider conducting business.
I was only provided an invoice once I demanded on the day of installation, with the manager suggesting that the carbon copy previously provided was sufficient. My insistence of a line by line invoice seemed to be a large inconvenience for the manager but he indicated that he thought it had been previously sent.
When questioned about lack of clarity of the invoice, the manager became curt and aggressive towards my wife, and did not want her to transfer to me, assessed as my wife as an attempt to bully her. When transferred to me, his first statement being that he would pull the team off the project immediately and how dare I question someone who has 35 plus years of experience. This is a bully tactic and should not be in tolerated in the current world. The manage refused to listen to me, cutting me off by saying that he would answer my questions, despite me not yet finishing my sentence. I never actually was able to ask my question and ultimately did not receive satisfaction to my questions.
Of concern, the manager had a series of answers to provide prior to being asked which indicates that he often receives questions signalling that there may be a pattern of the business not be providing information until asked for it.
Despite the understanding that the customer was to remove the existing carpet "lift the carpet on the Invoice", on the day of the install I was informed that I was to coordinate the disposal of the old carpet. Minor inconvenience but something that could have been done prior had the expectations been better laid out. The manager accepted that he did didn't articulate this nor that he put it on the carbon copy invoice, suggesting that disposal costs the major portion of the $0.50 per sq ft that they charged vice labour to remove the carpet, underlay, and staples. An efficient business may have offered to do amend the contract and add the disposal at $0.50 per sq ft to make profit, but it was not offered possibly not possible due to final payment was processed prior to start of the job. Overall more of an annoyance but very much encapsulates the customer service provided.
Recommend anyone using this business avoid dealing with the manager, or conversely go to the other location on Merivale Rd, as it is 20 minutes away and has much better reviews. read more
