We have had a difficult flooring experience with Carpets of Arizona. We used them previously at another home and had a good experience, however, this time was different. Pros and cons are as follows:
1. Pro/Con: The sales team is highly communicative, answers all questions, and are very helpful. That being said, they did get the measurements wrong twice. We also included baseboards into our overall cost. What we were not told is that the baseboards would be unfinished. We were under the impression our floors, and baseboards, would be good as new. The baseboards were also installed with bad cuts, nails sticking out, etc. I've been told they've now corrected this process as other customers also had this issue.
2. Con: Our install - and I cannot emphasize this enough - was a nightmare. It started in November 2020 and it is still not done as of this pos due to all the repairs and re-do's needed. We did, to be fair, request a break during the Christmas holiday as we didn't want to live through a torn up house any more than we already had been.
We did carpet and LTV in the entire house. Our LTV floors were supposed to be dropped off at our house 48 hrs in advance to acclimate, but a holiday in China impacted shipping from the vendor, which no one at the company knew about.
Instead of waiting for a firm response on when the floors would arrive and pushing our install back appropriately, they continued with the schedule. Luis and another gentleman ripped out the remaining carpet and baseboards and were visibly and verbally frustrated stating they never start jobs without the floors being ready. They piled all the furniture in two different rooms. During this process they damaged three pieces of furniture and we had multiple varying degrees of drywall damage, both large and small. At the end of the day after everything had been ripped out and our house was essentially unlivable, we were told it would be a WEEK before the floors arrived. We had no place to eat or sit.
They also left a ton of broken up cement all over the house, large nails sticking out of the walls dangerously, and three razor blades lying on the floor. My husband and I spent several hours that night cleaning up the mess, pulling out the nails, and making our house as safe as possible.
SOME photos of all the issues/damages attached.
3. Con: Management team and internal communications during the first half of this install. Eric, who was at the time the operating manager and has since been fired, told us varying truths, conflicting stories, and gave us false guarantees. We also later learned he never escalated any of our issues as he told us he had done.
4: Pro/Con - new installers: A week later, Manuel and Jimmy installed our floors. Jimmy was highly communicative the entire time. Manuel is a master LTV floor installer and did a beautiful herringbone pattern in our dining room. The two of them were extremely careful with moving things around and not damaging anything. The con here is where they started rushing at the end. There were quite a few places with the brand new LTV that needed repairs, including one entire room that had to be re-done; gaps were so large you could see the cement below, for example. Several places where carpet started popping up or just wasn't seemingly tacked down. Also, some baseboards were installed that were damaged and had to be replaced or repaired.
I believe the issue is we were originally told the install would take 9 days, but Eric forced it into 6 days, thus the damage. Now it's taken 2.5 months to fix everything.
I do want to give Manuel a lot of credit. He has been nothing but honest and fully accountable, and a huge help in coming out to fix everything. He is kind, trustworthy, and does an excellent job. Kudos to Miranda and Geraldine as well for their awesome service.
5. Pro/Con: Overall, the new management team and those now aware of the problems have fully stepped up, apologized, and taken all the necessary steps to right the wrongs.
My biggest disappointment here is in the way the company has handled collection of payment. We spent ~$18k on the floors; not a small amount of money. We paid 50% down and almost all of the rest, except for a small buffer of money set aside for drywall, furniture, and painting repairs due to the damage, which is to be deducted from the final payment. At one point they sent us a lien notice for final payment in the middle of things getting fixed - it's auto generated, but that is the last thing a customer with our situation should get. They also charged our credit card for the remaining $2300 without our permission and didn't realize why this was a problem, and before all repairs were done, which is extremely unprofessional.
6. In progress: Half a dozen+ more flooring repairs and a Karndean professional is supposed to come out and assess the flooring. Also, the refund on our card until repairs are complete.
(Note: I posted a Google review, which is not showing up.)