The Kitchen Restoration Company
Lovely doors, but apalling after-care - The Kitchen Restoration Company Furniture

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Lovely doors, but apalling after-care
The Kitchen Restoration Company

Catmom

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The Kitchen Restoration Company

Date: 06/04/11, updated on 06/04/11 (147 review reads)

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Advantages: Lovely doors

Disadvantages: Very poor after-care with no sense of urgency at all

We had our new kitchen doors fitted on 15 March and are very happy indeed with the way it looks and the speed of the installation but the pipe draining our kitchen sink was damaged during the installation process, flooding our kitchen the first time we washed up afterwards. As the pipe is out of view we didn't immediately find the source of the problem but did fax and post a letter to Kitchen Restoration on the morning of 18th, enclosing photographs of the broken pipe.

We had a phone call promising that someone would come and sort things out on 23rd (more than a week after the damage was done), but this ended up being cancelled as the fitter was delayed and couldn't get to us. We then had a message on our answerphone at home offering us a further date of 6 April (after three weeks of having to do our dishes in a plastic bowl and throw the water down the loo or into the garden) despite the company having both my husband's mobile number and my own.

An extremely pleasant man arrived a day early (5th, which they keep telling us was the day we were booked in despite their phone message and our confirmatory letter stating 6th!) "to assess the damage" but being unable to do anything about it. I was fortunately at home as we weren't expecting someone that day!

Does the elusive Mr Craig Davies (Operations Manager) really exist? He certainly hasn't had the courtesy to reply to one of our letters or numerous phone calls, and as he's the only person who can allocate us with a date for the work to be done.... I'm just sorry we didn't read these reviews before contacting them as clearly they have a track record of incredibly poor after-care service which means one cannot recommend them despite the good quality of their product.

Summary: A real pity I couldn't recommend them with a clear conscience!