Abysmal experience. Zero oversight. Over a year and counting for a SIX WEEK PROJECT. They and their subcontractors damaged (among smaller things): my existing oven, my existing refrigerator, my backyard turf, my new hardwood floors they installed, and my dishwasher. Cupboards are not aligned, drawers are not aligned, cabinet hardware put on crooked, exposed nails in numerous places, one cupboard damaged, undermount lighting flickering, broke through the linen closet, broke through the closet in my childs' room, failed to protect the bottom floor of the home under where the kitchen was and trash and debris covered the room under the kitchen, messes left for days, potfiller still not producing consumable water after over a year, etc... Do you think the project manager noticed any of this? NOPE. He was here, I believe 4 times total other than when he was collecting checks, trying to get me to upgrade or pushing me to sign off on things poorly or incompletely done. And not once on time (fortunately I was working from home). Be prepared to be your own project manager and you better check everything carefully. Take lots of pictures. At the outset, I did sign off on a design that seemed to look nice on the computer, but I was never warned that it was drastic overkill for my space. Like, exponentially the amount of storage that a kitchen 2x my size should have! Again, not once was it suggested to me that this may be too much! No checking of soffits was done, so I incurred $3000 thanks to their failure to check what was behind the soffits in the existing kitchen. They did however attempt to upsale, as the Project Manager and two others from the company office acted as though there was a big emergency the day or two after construction started and wanted me to redo the INSIDE of my ceiling for an additional $1500! I asked, is it a danger? No. Is it otherwise not to code? No. Then No - I have better things to spend money on other than a ceiling interior, especially when you simultaneously inform me you failed to check the soffits and need an extra $3k. Their one contribution to design was to try to get me to NOT do the niches on either side of my oven (which was my idea and I love having), I think because the amount they quoted me wasn't worth their time. Finally, since my kitchen had been redone approximately 1.5 years before this work was started (I bought a new-to-me-home), I asked if I could keep the existing white shaker cabinets and just purchase new ones where needed. They said yes, and that was the plan. However, they never informed me that the two whites were different colors, so now I have paid FIVE FIGURES for a kitchen where the cupboards don't match and are two shades of white. Garbage was left for days both inside and outside my home, no communication as to when noise levels would be such that I'd need to be out of the house, constant follow up required by ME, not them, to finish the job, which remains ongoing. Nightmare. Run.
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