I would NEVER, NEVER, and did I say NEVER, recommend this location or any of the chains to ANYONE. We are remodeling our home, went to Carpet Exchange to get pricing on carpet and hardwood flooring. Very happy with the carpet, that is the only reason I am giving a star rating at all. As for the hardwood floor, not at all. We had 650sq' of hardwood flooring, not a huge sale but still a decent amount. It took over 2 weeks for them to get someone out to do the measuring, then I had to do all the initiation of communication to get the ball rolling. We chose the Rustic Maple because we like the rustic look of the wood. YES we were told that there would be knots, fisher lines and the like and we accepted that. We WERE NOT told that it was "AS IS NO WARRANTY". We were told that we would need to order 15-20% more to compensate for shrinkage and waste, not a problem. When the material was delivered there was only 655sq', not much wiggle room for waste and shrinkage in my book. The day of install, the installers were about a quarter of the way through the dining room and were laying a lot of the wood off to the side and had already used approximately a quarter of the wood. They asked me where the rest of the boxes were stored???? There were no more boxes, They then called their boss to discuss the amount of bad pieces of wood and that they did not think there would be enough material. He showed up shortly after their conversation, looked around and the 3 of them went out side to discuss the situation. They were told to use what they were setting aside as "BAD PIECES", that is what the wood is supposed to look like. This should have been our first clue that there was a problem. The 3 day install only took 2, nice for us. When they completed the installation there were 3 sticks of flooring left that possibly measured 10' in length, this should have been our 2nd clue there was an issue. Upon inspecting the floor and letting the AWHH of the new floor ware off of us, we found SOOOO many bad pieces in the flooring. When I say bad I am talking splintering wood, so bad that I will not let my grandchildren play or walk bare foot in certain areas fearing they will get LARGE splinters in their feet. I am talking splinters the length of the board. I called and requested that these pieces be replaced. They were not receptive to that idea and it took many calls and on online complete to get this accomplished. 3 weeks later they sent the same install crew out with 3 boxes of wood. They came in and inspected all the areas that we had taped as needing to be replaced and proceeded to agree that they needed to be replace and actually found more. We, the installer and I, went to his truck to inspect the wood he had brought and found that it was worse then what was already on the floor. SOOOO at that point he suggested that they use a wood filler and seal the splintering areas down and fill in the bib gouges and cracks in the wood. SO, I agreed, BAD,BAD,BAD decision on my part. Well after they left and the wood filler dried I now have all these dull smudges ALL OVER my house where they used the filler. So I called again and was told that a manager would call me back and would discuss the situation, please note that I have sent up to 60 pictures to my salesman at this point. WELL I never received a call from any one. So I sent a message via their website. I did then receive a call from the manager of the store. He was a very rude person, spoke to me like I was a child, and informed that, in his words, you signed the contract and that contract states that you are purchasing product "AS IS-NO WARRANTY" and then pretty much told me to go pound sand.
DO NOT BUY HARDWOOD FLOORING FROM THIS COMPANY. I am in the process of filing a complaint with BBB to see if I can get some kind of resolution to this. read more