First of all let me caution anyone who reads this review against purchasing any housing materials such as flooring, carpet, cabinetry, countertops, etc. and especially their installation services! You are unlikely to receive any quality of service whether regarding the installation itself or the communication and “customer service” to go along with it.
My wife and I purchased and scheduled a carpet installation approximately 10 weeks ago and had planned for the installation date as it is the only day in the week that we can make work with our schedules and had completely torn apart two rooms of our house and cluttered and stuffed the other two rooms with everything that had to be moved for the installation. The installation was set for 8-11AM and I had received a confirmation of the appointment that morning around 8:00AM. After 11:00AM had come around, my wife and I had still received no communication as to update us of the status of the installation team.
I tried to contact the point of contact (POC) for the job but received no answer back. I called the office of the installation service, a full half hour after the ending of the appointment time at 11:00AM and also a half hour after having reached out to POC for an estimated time of arrival for the installation team. The contact at the office told me, after 30minutes on hold, that the POC was trying to contact the installation team and would get in touch with me with an ETA for the installation team. I did not receive a response. I called office again and they reached out to the POC, and were apparently able to get in contact with them again while I still could not, who I still had not heard from at this point (it is about 12:30PM at this point) and was told that the installer had received an injury the previous day and that there was no choice but to reschedule. The POC called me another 1/2 hour later to tell me the same things as I had already been told by the contact with the office. I expressed my frustrations at having received a rather shoddy installation of laminate flooring 2 years prior, to which there was no apology given only deflection as to the installation service being free from any blame and instead the POC states that Lowe’s itself was to blame for the mishandling of that order and installation let alone this one. The lack of communication and rescheduling after rearranging the entire house and working around my wife and my work schedules to fit this appointment in only to have it rescheduled for days which we have to work and cannot be present for the installation were the last straws for us. We canceled our installation in order to find a more competent and professionally communicative service for installation. When attempting to contact Lowe’s customer service on the matter my wife and I were hung up on by the customer service staff without them having even answered the phone.
I began shopping at Lowe’s because in general I felt them to be more welcoming, engaging, and helpful than Home Depot, a place where my family shopped for home projects almost exclusively (along with Ace Hardware) since I was a child. It is a shame that after several years I no longer feel as though any of these qualities are present at least within their Bozeman location.
I would strongly recommend avoiding Lowe’s at all cost for any housing projects and installation services! You are likely to receive sub-standard work and a complete lack of communication for the significant amount of money that is paid for their installation services. Better to spend your money with a quality local service that has more honesty and dedication to their profession.
-Jason Swietek