We had a couple options for our gas fireplace, we picked Clayton Richard's because it was in our…read moretown. If I read the Yelp reviews I would NOT have picked them
I think it was the 1st week in November when we went to Clayton Richard's stone & Fireplace. We met the lady at the desk (which turns out is the sister in law & not all that friendly) We picked out our stove & Eric came to price it out. We came up with we were buying the stone and mantle & in Eric's words, prices his jobs "with everything" installed, including stone and mantle. Weeks went by then months. When it came in, we we were told by Eric, the fireplace came in broken, that they had to order another one. But a few weeks earlier the sister in law told us it was back ordered.
At this point I purchased the stone. I wasn't paying to much attention to the stonework, ,but was completed. Eric says let me know when the mantle is in, & the gas line is done They don't do it, but said just get it to the fireplace, we'll hook it up. So i got the line close, and figured they would want to install a line from the fireplace to the pipe. Now that the stonework was done, I noticed that the stone was higher up then I'd envisioned. With it being so high, how was It going to work, adding another 6" or 8" mantle. It was going to look absolutely ridiculous. I mean it was going to bring the bottom of the tv to a minimum of 58" almost 5 foot off the ground. So NOT noticing at first glance that the stonework was off center, and there was a 2 1/2 to 3" difference. I had the mantle cut to the size of the length of the stone.
Ok mantle is in, and we call the store, and Eric gets back to us and says ok it'll be 700.00 to install. We absolutely could not believe he was charging us. We knew that Eric specifically told us he does not like to bill separately for jobs, that he charges one price. & that's for the entire job. It was then that we noticed the stonework was "OFF" we called the store and told them we need Eric to come and look at the job, that they screwed it up. And they also have to complete the job ( it still was NOT hooked up) .So one of the guys came, and I showed him what the issue was. If you could have seen his face ..it was priceless. OOOFFF I said we really didn't notice it, until later. We also told Oscar, that the stonework was really high, that they did not account for the mantle being installed. So he took pictures and obviously sent them to Eric. Oscar plugs in the receiver or whatever, and tells me the gas liine isn't installed. I told him Eric told me to get it close to the fireplace and they'll hook it up. But he tells me they dont do that.. I found that odd, it literally took me 10 minutes to hook up. And because we were so bothered by the work he did abd the fact that he was charging us to mouth the mantle. I actually paid someone else to hang it. We even had them cut back the stone a row so we can have the height of the tv somewhat normal. (Mind you this was like in January, when it was finished)
Ok Eric calls me the next day or so. Says I heard there was an issue with the fireplace. I say yeah it's "OFF" IN every sense of the word. And I told him seriously this is like basic skills, this is level and symmetrical 101. So now we're going back and forth about the job, and what they did. I didn't flip out, yell, I just figured he'd fix it. We did have a balance of 2,000 and Eric says what if I take off 500. I said Eric the job cost us 12 THOUSAND DOLLARS! & the entire job is messed up. I mean this isn't an easy fix. I said you really need to come and look at the job. So he says ok let's call it a wash and forget about the balance. Which was more what I was thinking of. We called the store for some reason and the lady says we have a note here that we have a balance of 2000, and we're not to come back to the house..something like that. So at this point the fireplace was not even tested by them, "They were done with the job" they never once saw it or tested to see if it was working. That I think is terrible business..this is a propane stove and just left as is!
A few weeks later Eric calls me says I didn't like the wsy it ended, I dont think I ( meaning himself) did the right thing. Says i want to make it right, that he was going to fix it, and don't worry about anything we'll take care of it. The way the phone call went, he was fixing it for nothing, to clear his name &rreputation. He comes over looks at and first glance says the air is wrong on the unit. Its causing the chimney to have all that soot and glass is black. I said well when your son left, he left with pictures thats it. He never mentioned anything about completing the job. It just needed a flex line ..and nobody once asked if it was hooked up, or anything. You guys just left. So he adjusted the air and had his guys clean the glass. He says ok ill set some up. He calls & tells me ill do it for the balance. I was so annoyed,I just left it as is
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND