Will L.
04/11/2023 12:00:00 SA
Add me to the list of people who wished they looked at Yelp vs other review sites.
This company is an absolute nightmare. Granted, I am pleased with 99% of the final product (still waiting weeks for the last 1% as usual with them). The materials they use are great, and everything looks beautiful. That is the end of any compliment for this company.
You think you are getting a one-stop shop where all of your anxiety is comforted by one company who will advocate to get your project completed. Instead, you have to personally deal with several different sub-contractors who all contact you on their own schedule that is different from what HHF tells you.
My entire demo and install was supposed to take approx. 2.5 weeks. I am now over two months from the start date without a fully finished product.
The original sales/design consultant was anything but a design consultant. He was friendly, though, and convinced us we would like LVP over what we were shopping for, tile (we are pleased). He gave rough ideas and opinions of things to do, but none of this was documented anywhere, so when the sub-contracted installers come, you have to be ready to answer design questions when you don't even really understand your options.
The demo itself took several days longer than they expected, and instead of sending more people to get done closer to on schedule, they sometimes sent only 1 person and once sent nobody. They claim their demo is "less dust" but don't promise "dust-free" which is fair. But they put almost no effort into actually producing less dust or protecting your home/belongings. They put up minimal plastic only in the room they were working in while the rest of the house gets coated. Then they move to the next room and hang plastic. I used their plastic rolls over night to cover all of the things in my house that were clearly collecting dust after one day, i.e., everything. They completely blasted one of my rooms with dust without any care at all. It looked like a war zone in there.
Their demo guys also managed to knock an unused water valve behind my fridge loose that started leaking and caused a small flood in my kitchen. Their installers had to have seen noticeable moisture and installed right over it. We later had to have this ripped up and replaced which took forever within this process.
Progress is slow and you will have to call the office daily to figure out what is going on. They won't know either, but they will promise to call you back, and then you get to see if that's true (usually not).
You will run into surprises because nobody is keeping you informed. Like when our sub-contractor floor installer matter-of-factly gave us about 45 minutes notice before we were to not walk anywhere on our downstairs level for several hours. We had to pack and bolt like refugees over this nonsense. Later, a similar surprise when we were told there would be no way we could use our stairs for 24 hours. They figured out a way around this, but we had to facilitate it ourselves, of course.
They will run out of materials because they didn't order enough and then have to order more, only to still have not ordered enough and have to order yet again. This will make you insane.
And today I find out from one of the sub-contractors that I was expecting to arrive today to finish one last issue that he and 7 other contractors haven't even been getting paid, so they are refusing work now from HHF. But he specifically asked HHF to inform me, and of course, they did not.
This company is absolutely garbage, and it sounds like their days are numbered. Who knows? Don't buy into their marketing. I have yet to get my final inspection and who knows what it will be like to try to get repairs under their worry-free guarantee. It's a nightmare. Don't use this company. Yesterday was 9 weeks into a 3 week job, and I hope it will end someday.