4 years ago
I am the wife of the previous reviewer. To be clea...
I am the wife of the previous reviewer. To be clear, we were more than happy working with Zachary, the gentleman that came to our home to give us an estimate. His communication skills about our project were clear, he spent a lot of time on details, and he was able to give good ideas by looking at the space we had to work with. Even if he had miss quoted the price, we would have continued to work with him at a higher price if we were told there was more work involved than originally thought. Our bad experience was with the sales associate, Kim (I believe that is her name). From the beginning of my communication with her, I felt she had no understanding of my project. She kept asking for pictures of other fireplaces, even tho the project I am trying to do is custom and will not look like other people's fireplace. Zachary immediately knew what we were trying to do by just looking at our space. He brought back pictures of our space to the office for Kim to see, but she still wanted photos of other people's fireplaces. When Zack was at the house, I asked him if we could schedule an appointment with another designer because I felt Kim was difficult for me to communicate with. He said they don't do appointments, but there would be other staff working as well. When we arrived, I tried to request a different staff, but Kim insisted on helping us. I do feel we may have had a better experience if we had a better fit w a staff that clearly understand our project and had communicated things differently. Sometimes it's just a bad fit.
***Update: We had a masonry come look at our fireplace, who said it was a very easy standard fireplace remodel, and quoted us ~$1,500 in labor (not including supplies). This was much more inline with what Zack said when he was at our house, and very different from what Kim told us. She went on about the possibilities of wall rot, and we had a crack in our brick making it a ~$5k job. I'm so glad we moved on from this store. I have no experience working with them on floors, but they were recommended for fireplace remodel, and I don't think they're the best fit for this project. They don't seem to have experience with fireplaces, know how they are built, or how to remodel them. Go to a masonry for fireplace remodeling.