I have been patient over the last 5 months. Much of my time was wasted waiting on Diamond's employees & contractors to do (and redo) their work. I regret not checking their Yelp rating first.
I scheduled my countertop installation for before I moved in, July 6th, so that I would have a working kitchen. I moved in July 11th. I still don't have a working kitchen. It's quite inconvenient to cook out of boxes, because you don't want to unpack just to repack whenever they happen to decide to call to fix their faulty workmanship as promised. Plus, I don't want them to damage more of my property when they come back. They told me 14 days ago that they would tear out/replace my new countertop a week from then. They haven't scheduled anything with me; nor have they returned my calls. I need my kitchen finished before I can refinance, which was the whole point of renovating my kitchen. They are costing me a lot of money and time. My tile backsplash was supposed to be installed over a month ago. It can't be done until the countertop is finished. That contractor is frustrated as well.
The seam by the window was ground down on top of the quartz, instead of from underneath, leaving a large unpolished indention that is very noticeable. Their contractor agreed that they need to replace that entire section of the countertop after sending a tech to my home during a 6 hr window to inspect it. Another 4 hr window: they came to template again, because they threw away the original. My last message from them was that they forgot to remeasure my sink (standard sink sold by Diamond & brought to my home by the contractor at installation,) so they need to come by again to measure their sink. That means another long window of waiting for them, but not the last. When is this remeasure? When is tear out/installation? They won't return my calls. After they install the new quartz, they said I will also have to reschedule to have my sink reconnected with their plumbing contractor, which is more of my time. My next step will be a Registrar of Contractor complaint against the contractor, but I know that's a lengthy process.
They were messy, chipped my wall to the metal at installation. They chipped paint off my newly refinished cabinets. They embedded gray caulking on my newly painted walls and cabinets (not where it belonged.) I had to scrape product off my windows. All of the counters are not shiny, some from caulking spills, some I'm not sure what from... I'm hoping they will make it all feel and look shiny and new when they come to redo the rest. They also left the sink box on the side of my front yard on top of sawdust with cardboard, sticky rags, loose razorblades inside. I almost cut my hand open cleaning it out.
I have called Diamond many times. A different salesman than mine returned my call after I went down there in person to complain about not getting a call or email back after my poor installation when my salesman happened to be on vacation. Once the salesman who handled my account returned from vacation, I didn't hear from anyone at Diamond. I had the same problem trying to get a quote from them back in April and again, trying to pay in May. I was ignored and had to go down there to get my quote in writing. Unfortunately, even though my friend and I picked out the sink type and color at the salesman's instruction during the quoting process, the salesman didn't itemize it on the quote. When I went down there in person (because I couldn't get a call or email back as usual) to pay and sign my contract, I ended up paying more than I expected, because of that error. The manager said they would do the initial tear out right away, within a week. He said they'd call me, but they didn't. After a week I contacted the number on my receipt, reached a manager who emailed my salesman. It was the best turnaround time I had from them getting a return call (2 days.) It turned out my order hadn't been entered in their system, so it was just sitting there.
All of this trouble might be understandable if they were a discount shop with ridiculous deals. They're not. I paid over $6K for my quartz countertops. I did not receive any discount for this mess, my time, trouble, headache. I can't even get an I'm sorry call from them after all this... or any call for that matter.
Why? My friend recommended Diamond. What I have been told since I experienced this nightmare is that they used to be great, but they are trying to expand rapidly, piling work on the salesmen from floor sales to following up on purchase orders, and they can't keep up. In essence, the customers can't get serviced.
The sink contractor, who also does the tear out, was wonderful. He estimated within a 2 hr window, was on time, professional, thorough. I had incorrect measurements for the sink from Diamond and he gave me a sink strainer that would fit their sink. He even reconnected my dishwasher to the new countertop. I cannot say enough good things about him and his team.