Avoid Home Depot Carpet Installation
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Comments (5)Thanks Jbranch, Yes, we have use the the rebond in most of our home for carpet. This room here, is below grade, basement. I wouldnt really call it a bsement though, because it has no appearances as such. Plenty of natural light,,,no visible water problems; and the only problem is with moisture is during summer, muggy months, in which our dehumidification cures that. Based upon our research, talk with others, etc,, everyone seems to say go with a felt pad in the basemnet as it will let and water vapor pass through the pad and not be trapped by the pad as what would happen with the rebond pad. So we were going to go with a felt pad; but shopping around in Home Depot, they also mentioned that they sell this white looking cotton type of pad as mentioned above, that works well against mold and supposedly moisture areas; so we felt that this might be another option. Thanks, Jim...See MoreHome Depot Carpet Colors
Comments (5)Sorry, colors aren't available online. If anyone has carpet suggestions from elsewhere, that is fine. I can compare the colors for a close match. There is no carpet on a roll at the store, but there are 4 inch square samples that you can take from the store. There are many different shades of taupe/brown. I am wondering if I should try to match the wall color closely for a unified look, or go with a either a lighter or darker shade for contrast. I am afraid if I go darker, the room will look like a cave....See MoreHome Depot Pricing on Granite & Install
Comments (19)Yesterday a contractor that HD recommended from a list called "Red Beacon" finished our upstairs guest bathroom. They recommend Red Beacon when the job is too small for one of their in house subs. It looks terrible. What a mess. Then he charged me way more than his bid. I didn't like the guy, just a weird dude, so I just paid him and told him how disappointed I was with the way he did it as in the grout lines were to be zero grout line and they are all different sizes up to a quarter of an inch when we agreed on an eighth of an inch. Not to mention he didn't put the tiles all running in the same direction of flow meaning the tiles have a directional pattern on them in the form of veins running through the marble. The tiles vary greatly in shading and he put darker ones all in a row and lighter ones randomly when it would have looked better to disperse them throughout. He didn't even install a threshold and had told me he would cut the tile in small rectangular pieces to meet the door jam but he ran the tile all the way to the entry and just cut off the edges and butted it against a thin metal strip and filled it in with grout. The tile cut isn't cut evenly so it's all running down hill as far as the butt joint against a metal strip. It isn't a metal threshold strip it's just a thin metal strip. I reminded him that he said he was going to do a threshold and he said oh yeah I did say that I don't know why I didn't and just shrugged. I told him I didn't think it looked good and would he like that in his house? He said no. I said what do you think we should do about it and he said that well if you ever have any other work in the future I could fix it then. What? I wanted to say there will never be another time. I paid him the full amount because we were alone in the house and I just don't need to be feeling like someone would do something to me or even say something to me that was really awful and with no witnesses here, he really could do/say whatever he wanted. It was so awkward. His skill level was just not up to doing this very small bathroom. I am not sure where to go from here. I don't want him coming back here. I can't even make myself go up there and look at it closely. It took him 3 long days to do 36 square feet of tile plus the side of a 5 foot bathtub and there was no tear out except for taking up that amount of carpet. I think I could manage getting over what I paid him but it's the materials that I am agonizing over. It was all Carrera marble tile and side splash on the face of the tub and a new Kohler toilet. I am starting to hate HDepot and Lowe's. Something always goes wrong when I have dealt with them and I don't know why they recommend people that don't have skill levels to meet even basic requirements. I honestly feel I could have done as good of a job. He also used three more boxes of tile than he estimated which would have been nearly half again as much as the space. I realize that setting tile on the diagonal takes more but not that much. So he bought more tile and I had to pay for that too. I cleaned up the driveway myself and there was so much wasted tile out there including some he was cutting in circles to place over the open trap for the toilet that smells so bad while working which I totally get but I had mentioned just setting a full tile on top of it as we have done in the past with the master remodel not cutting a custom tile piece just for the amount of time the drain was going to be open. Each tile costs several dollars and I saw at least three of them discarded when I was cleaning up I guess he was practicing on, not counting the ones that were upstairs. What is going on Home Depot?...See MoreHave you had Home Depot or Lowes install an entry door?
Comments (16)Lowes installed my doors. What a cluster of catastrophes, It started with their crew coming out to measure. Then they came back with the windows and doors that THEY measured and the doors were so much smaller than the openings that they looked ridiculous. The doors were Pella wood sliders, very nice, but too small for the openings. I begged them to make the doors bigger, not smaller, but they said they could not. Then they could not find trim to fit the doors, so they left the last trim they bought in my yard to be rained on. As they were preparing to leave, I asked what they were doing with the trim and they told me I had purchased it and I could do whatever I wanted. This was their 6th try at installing said trim, so they never came back. I called and went to the store in Simpsonville, SC every day for weeks. I contacted the CEO of Lowes (not the current one) and he told me Blaine (the fellow in charge of my special order at the store) told them that I had ordered smaller doors to save money! first of all, I begged to make the doors bigger and the larger doors were less money because they were standard size. Now fast forward a few years and the largest set of doors will not even open at all! I had Pella out to my home and they said the doors were installed wrong from the beginning and that they need to take the whole thing out and reinstall. When the doors were first completed I was told that they only needed to be adjusted and I was doing it wrong. Can I sue lowes? Really angry!...See More- 6 years ago
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