Poor communication and customer service
If you want an installation performed by a company which has good communication with its customers and good internal communications to prevent issues arising, then I would not recommend this company.
One example: Their plasterers plastered over a doorframe, rendering a door unusable. Initially I was told it would be fixed. After the installation, following no communication about it, I emailed the company with a 5 point list of unresolved issues they had left me with.
My email went unresponded to but finally someone did turn up, randomly without an appointment and took away the quantity of rubbish they'd left strewn across my garden and spilled bags of plaster from my dining room which I'd had to prompt them in my email to remove. I was led to believe by the worker that the issue of my unusable bedroom door would be fixed, but after two weeks of silence I concluded no one was coming to fix it. I emailed again only to be told that since the plasterers had followed the plans there was nothing they could do.
Being given the brush off with what sounds like "corporate speak" for go away was upsetting. No one had informed me beforehand that the plans for installing insulation and replastering would involve damage and expense to myself. At the very least customers should be informed of potential issues or damage to their property so they can make informed decisions about whether to proceed or not.
The insulation/plastering narrowed a dormer window so that the original blinds didn't fit. They left me to find this out by myself after the installation when I wondered why they had reinstalled the other tracks and blinds but not the bedroom one. Discourteous at the very least. I swallowed the expense of this and replaced it. But with the damaged door frame on top, the expense was running into hundreds of pounds. I tried DIY solutions such as door planing and sanding the plaster before I asked them for help. So to be treated as a nuisance, when calling them back was my last resort, was distressing.
I have to say the workers were sloppy in some respects and rushing at the end to finish. They removed a kitchen door to do some work and never put it back on its hinges. I requested, as one of the workers was leaving, for it to be put back on. I was given assurances that it would be. Now, weeks on, I still have no kitchen door. It is too heavy for me to fix it myself. Ironically the heat generated from the new installation is being lost through a door that they never bothered to reinstall.
After the heating system was installed a bunch of papers were put under my nose to sign and I was rushed through it without a proper explanation. The customer satisfaction form had been pre-filled for me with positive feedback. I felt under pressure to sign it, with the worker standing over me. Not being a natural complainer it was difficult to resist this pressure to sign, even though the feedback wasn't mine. But in effect it robbed me of the means to express my true feelings about my experience with this company and they have basically rated themselves, even though I am dissatisfied with various aspects of the installation. I don't believe it is ethically acceptable to fill in your customers' satisfaction surveys for them. I raised this matter twice with them in emails but was given no response about it. Surely I should have been sent another form to fill in, so that I can record my experiences accurately? Perhaps it's unfair to conclude that the company is actively trying to suppress complaints or dissatisfaction over its work practices by pre-filling forms, but it is not a good look.
I wasn't given a thorough enough explanation of how the heating system works, so that I had to trouble-shoot problems via Google afterwards. Given the lack of communication generally and being given the brush off over the damage caused to my property, despite verbal assurances that matters would be rectified, it left me feeling uncomfortable about asking for help in relation to newly arising issues with the actual heating system such as noisy pipes and noisy radiators and whether these could be remedied.
I don't want to tar all the workers with the same brush so I should just mention the 2 excellent electricians who were very helpful and made themselves available afterwards for questions. But regarding the company's customer relations, communication, being informed ahead about potential problems, and the awful state they left my house and garden in afterwards, and now leaving me high and dry with the expense of trying to fix issues they didn't warn me about and then reneging on promises to fix them, I am very unhappy and this is reflected in my low rating.
22 maja 2024
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