On July 2nd, our cat flooded a portion of our house. She turned on the laundry-room sink while no…read moreone was home and it overflowed for about eight hours. Our master bedroom and closet, laundry room, mud room, living room, basement stairs, and about 1/3 of our basement was covered in water. ServiceMaster Restore came out the next morning to start the clean-up process. They removed the carpet, the damaged rugs for cleaning, baseboards, and a portion of the vinyl flooring in the mudroom. They set up their drying machines and would come back and check them every few days. Well - after only removing half the flooring, it took TEN days for the subfloor to dry. After we took off work and were no-showed twice (and a hotel stay since it was unbearably hot with the machines running nonstop and half the house sectioned off) they finally removed more flooring on the ninth day and removed the machines on the tenth day. When they finally showed up to remove the machines, I had to run fans to get the smell of weed out of my house... it was SO strong from the workers who were in and out. A month went by and we heard nothing. Apparently the project manager had left and our project was handed over. We met the new manager and did a walk-through... half the items needed to be done were "forgotten" so we had to start from the beginning in getting him up to speed. He encouraged us to utilize a moving pod to hold our furniture in our driveway so the restoration to be completed. We agreed, and appreciated that suggestion. Well, now we are at the two month mark... half my house is still missing flooring. We are still walking on splintering sub-floor and stepping over multiple spike strips, with a crawling toddler and little kids. Last week they finally called back and asked if the painters could come "tomorrow" at 7am. YES! - but no pod was delivered. What we thought would be a one-day paint job was actually scheduled for four days (news to us - we found this out when the painters said they were coming back at 7am tomorrow)... More time off work for Brandon and I... We were waking up at 5am each morning to move around furniture so the walls would be accessible. Our bedroom furniture was too heavy for us to move by ourselves, which we were told we would not have to do... so the wall behind our bed? Not painted. Our closet? Not painted. But alas, we were making progress, and a few walls not painted is not a huge deal. Until I went to grab groceries from the garage freezer days after the painting was completed... the workers unplugged the fridge/freezer and never notified us or plugged it back in. Everything is bad and needs to be thrown out. More money gone. My rugs they took before the Fourth of July? Five different phone calls to try and FIND them (apparently it was a different branch that took them) and ASK for them back. I was told they have been done for weeks and can be brought back tomorrow, they "don't know" why we were never notified. Well, it is now "tomorrow" and we have been no-showed again after taking the morning off work to be home. I called and I was told they sent the guy to another job, instead, and they would not be delivered today.... We are FINALLY on the calendar to get our flooring installed on Friday the 13th (fitting, right?) but they will not move our furniture back into our house until some time the following week, since this is a Friday and they will not do it on the weekend. Back to planning accommodations for three kids, three dogs, and two cats... I have never experienced such carelessness from a company designed for disaster relief. One sink overflowing has cost us our entire summer, weeks of work, cancelled vacations. Worst of all, it has been over two months of making-do with unsafe living conditions with small children and animals. This has been so exhausting and defeating - and ServiceMaster Restore has refused to do anything to make these matters right.

Avoid these people at all costs. They won't call you back, they'll give you false information,…read morethey'll delay your project based on that false information, they'll say they'll do something and then never do it (all the time), they won't return phone calls, and are generally a nightmare to work with. I'm an insurance adjuster and I work with the Servicemaster and Servpro franchises all the time, and all over the country and they're always competent and professional, 9 times out of 10. I've never dealt with such a ridiculous level of incompetency or disrespect as with these guys. Absolutely avoid them.