Home Depot
I’m curious if anyone has experience using Home Depot as a contractor. I’m looking to have an apartment painted, have a built-in closet designed/installed and have a built-in bookshelf/media station designed/installed. It seems to me that using HD would take some of the reputational issues out of the equation (which is generally a major concern),…
I’m curious if anyone has experience using Home Depot as a contractor. I’m looking to have an apartment painted, have a built-in closet designed/installed and have a built-in bookshelf/media station designed/installed. It seems to me that using HD would take some of the reputational issues out of the equation (which is generally a major concern), but I haven’t seen much written about them or heard of anyone’s experience with them. Are there any thoughts on this?
The problem is Home Depot, SEARS, and other big names charge the nice high professional price to the customer…however the subcontractors they use work at ridiculous rates and wages, and do shotty work. I know because i am a contractor, and was inquiring about being apart of their pro services….on top of that, they want the contractor to have all insurances in order, they want the sub to be accountable for everything that goes wrong….and there you have a recipe for disaster!!! Thus why these names are associated with so many problems, and why i don’t bother with them.
Home Depot installed my flooring in an otherwise beautifully renovated apartment overlooking the intracoastal in West Palm Beach.
After 8 months of waiting for them to tear it out and start over, which never happened, I moved.
Two years later I am still trying to get them to take responsibility via a lawsuit.
It is a horrible mess. They didn’t complete the floors, the put them in wrong in the first place, they used subcontractors that aren’t licensed and they didn’t even pull a permit.
If any others have had this problem I would love to hear from you: parkerchris9@aol.com
Home Depot installed my flooring in an otherwise beautifully renovated apartment overlooking the intracoastal in West Palm Beach.
After 8 months of waiting for them to tear it out and start over, which never happened, I moved.
Two years later I am still trying to get them to take responsibility via a lawsuit.
It is a horrible mess. They didn’t complete the floors, the put them in wrong in the first place, they used subcontractors that aren’t licensed and they didn’t even pull a permit.
If any others have had this problem I would love to hear from you: parkerchris9@aol.com
If you want a great general contractor, I can’t recommend Roy of All Precision Renovation highly enough. We used Roy and his guys for a bunch of work on our first house, and they’re downstairs now doing work on our new (1906) house. He and his men are punctual, honest, friendly, knowledgeable, flexible, and the work is superb. One example: in our new house, one room had been stripped of all its original window, door and part of its floor moldings. The next day, Roy found and installed replacements to match all the other rooms, and by the time we got home that night, they were in place, primed and painted. You’d never know they weren’t always there. He has great plumbers, electricians, siding people — you name it. All thorough and all genuinely nice. And his prices are very fair. I don’t think you’ll find better; the only question would be his availability. Roy is at 917-842-6760.
Just say no!
We used Home Depot for our kitchen renovation, involving cabinets, countertops, an appliances. We’ll never deal with them again.
Dave, a man after my own heart, says it all. Yes indeed, the 3rd Avenue store is truly a preview of hell. Getting a contractor from there is a thought too terrifying to really think through.
Using Home Depot would be a GREAT idea if you want to simultaneously videotape an undercover expose on shoddy products, shoddy installation, and a shoddy, apathetic corporation that only cares about the extraction of money from your bank account.
Home Depot symbolizes, quite perfectly, everything that is wrong today with America, and why we really are imbecilic assholes to allow big box businesses to dominate the landscape from coast to coast.
Home Depot is good at sales. Once the project is handed over to contractors things fall apart.
I had them do replacement windows.
Sales meeting went fine. First meeting with contractor to take measurements also fine.
Windows arrive- wrong style but they had already ripped out old windows so put in anyway and had to order new sashes.
New sashes arrive- half do not fit and have to be reordered. Others have questionable fit – I have to fiddle with hardware to make them close.
Last sashes arrive: I spend all day waiting for contractor who is “30 minutes away”.
Window capping was horrible- they didn’t care if it looked good or not. What makes it worse is the warranty is dependent upon the capping so to fix the problem I voided the warranty.
So I would stay away from Home Depot for contracting.