JewelFreak
Ideal_Rock
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There's a law that renovation has to cost twice as much & take twice as long as you estimate. I proved it! I'm spiffing up the master bathroom to get it in shape as cheaply as possible for selling the house in a year or so. Headache City.
It still had wall-to-wall carpeting that was there when we bought the house; needs to be tiled. Tiling on tub & shower is okay, so it's only the floor. 2 estimates were close to $5K, gasp, so I went for Lowe's, much less & I've had good experience w/them before. Chose tile, paid some, & they said they'd call in 24 to 48 hrs to set up a start date.
One week later, hadn't heard a peep from them, so I called. And called. Spent the next 3 days constantly on the phone -- "The contractor will get in touch today..." over & over. Finally, after 10 days, a chick phones me & is shocked & indignant that I'm impatient -- fairly rude, in fact. But it's scheduled, yay!
The guys arrive....but Lowe's never delivered the materials, so they have no tile to lay! I asked them to pull out the rug -- and they found that the house's settling over 35 yrs had made the floor too uneven to continue until someone levels it first, $$$$! Off they go, promising cheerily that Lowe's will call me in about a half hour.
You guessed it -- zero communication for 3 days. Then I receive a call from someone who asks in a perky voice, "I just wanted to check how satisfied you are with your installation!" Are you kidding???
Next day I cancelled the whole project, and the only good part of the experience is that they were very nice about refunding every penny. A 4th company due tomorrow for another estimate & to tell me what to do about the uneven floor.
It'll get done eventually, but for more than I expected -- BIG sticker shock on this stuff -- maybe I'll appreciate it that much more. For the past week I've been walking around on the plywood base flooring & I suppose will be for some time to come. Feels good to vent!!
--- Laurie
It still had wall-to-wall carpeting that was there when we bought the house; needs to be tiled. Tiling on tub & shower is okay, so it's only the floor. 2 estimates were close to $5K, gasp, so I went for Lowe's, much less & I've had good experience w/them before. Chose tile, paid some, & they said they'd call in 24 to 48 hrs to set up a start date.
One week later, hadn't heard a peep from them, so I called. And called. Spent the next 3 days constantly on the phone -- "The contractor will get in touch today..." over & over. Finally, after 10 days, a chick phones me & is shocked & indignant that I'm impatient -- fairly rude, in fact. But it's scheduled, yay!
The guys arrive....but Lowe's never delivered the materials, so they have no tile to lay! I asked them to pull out the rug -- and they found that the house's settling over 35 yrs had made the floor too uneven to continue until someone levels it first, $$$$! Off they go, promising cheerily that Lowe's will call me in about a half hour.
You guessed it -- zero communication for 3 days. Then I receive a call from someone who asks in a perky voice, "I just wanted to check how satisfied you are with your installation!" Are you kidding???
Next day I cancelled the whole project, and the only good part of the experience is that they were very nice about refunding every penny. A 4th company due tomorrow for another estimate & to tell me what to do about the uneven floor.It'll get done eventually, but for more than I expected -- BIG sticker shock on this stuff -- maybe I'll appreciate it that much more. For the past week I've been walking around on the plywood base flooring & I suppose will be for some time to come. Feels good to vent!!
--- Laurie
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