I went to Home Depot because I thought I would be "safe" and they were a retailer I could trust. How wrong was I. They sent a smooth talking salesman out to the home "to measure". I had no intention of signing a contract but he made a big deal about how good the prices are, that refacing costs half of what it does to get new cabinets and I could get a discount only if I signed that day. If I waited till the next day, no discount. I never fall for this stuff but I thought I was dealing with Home Depot and I could trust them so I signed because remodeling was so confusing and he made it sound so easy. I also thought the price was good because it was about what my neighbor just spent on an identical kitchen. I was wrong though as I later found out my neighbor got the refacing AND granite AND plumbing for the price I paid just for refacing) The salesman also told me that this will all be done in house by Home Depot. That is a lie. Another company named US Remodelers is a subcontractor and does the work, NOT Home Depot. The people at Home Depot won't even help you with it and they tell you to call US Remodelers yourself!

The cabinets look awful. The guy left a huge seam in the middle at eye level. I made him come back and redo it. Then in looking at the cabinets, most of the doors were all hung crooked. They said my cabinets are crooked, not the doors. Well, the old doors were straight...He also did not finish edges or caulk to fill in spaces. Very shoddy work. He was always in a hurry to leave in the afternoons. He also never hauled the old countertops off and left them next to the dumpster which got me a citation. They did come out and redo everything when I complained. But the workmanship is shoddy and the product looks cheap even though they will tell you it is the top of the line. (When the salesman comes he brings a tiny sample and you can't really see how it is going to look) Not only does it look bad but I believe there is deception with their pricing. They cannot tell you how much anything cost or how they arrived at the price of the bid. It is all very suspicious. I since got an estimate from another company and it was 30% less.

Moral of the story, DO NOT THINK YOU ARE DEALING WITH HOME DEPOT BECAUSE THEY SELL SOMETHING THERE. You are not. You are dealing with another company under contract with them.

I also had alot of problems with the Home Depot people on the other things with the remodel, they were very ill informed and the woman I was dealing with at the store was very rude.

Google NBC Los Angeles and then put Home Depot in Search and you will see an investigative series about Home Depot. I wish I had done this before I went there, I never would have used them. They have actual employees stating how US Remodlers over measures and overcharges customers!!

In January of '06 we purchased a GE water heater with installation and lifetime labor extended warranty from Home Depot. 2 1/2 year later, this past Monday night, the tank developed a leak and flooded our basement. For the past 3 days I have been on the phone and in person with the store, Executive customer relations, GE and the Warranty department, and they have still failed to replace our water heater under the warranty. I don't think I have EVER come across a more incompetent bunch of morons in my life. I have been given nothing but the runaround and excuses. The latest was the store manager, David Moriarty, who told me yesterday, when he said that the installer was coming, he got it confused with another customer by mistake. UNBELIEVABLY. We haven't been able to take a shower, or wash dishes or clothes for over 3 days now, with little end in sight. NEVER buy a major appliance from these incompetent thieves. And DEFINATELY do NOT but an extended warranty. It's as worthless as they are.

In February of 2008, purchased 2 new exterior doors, 2 new storm doors and four new interior doors. Scheduled installation for March (all doors were to be in). Installation was to be done by H.D. sub-contractors (one to do the exterior doors and a different one to do the interior doors). I took a vacation day to be there for this work. Note: H.D. uses one installation contractor in this area who subs his work out to other sub contractors! The installers arrived to do the 4 exterior doors. They set-up to do the front exterior door, only to find out that the door was the wrong handed door. The front custom storm door was not in. They went to install the custom interior kitchen door only to find it had hairline cracks in it and now had to be reordered. They left the kitchen storm door and materials in my garage. H.D. went and found another door from one of the other stores and had it delivered to Waltham. Scheduled another vacation day for the install. Recieved a phone call from the installer late that morning only to tell me the door came in incorrect. This time the box was marked correct on the outside but was the opposite handed door in the box. Now they had to find another one and I would now have to take more time off! A different installer came back this time and only had time to do the front exterior and storm door install. He left the new kitchen door replacement in my garage and would have to ccome back another day to do it's install. That weekend I checked out the "new" custom kitchen door, only to find out they brought back the same door which was rejected! Would now have to wait almost another month to get this door reordered and installed. Another vacation day lost, installer came back took off the old kitchen door and tried to install the new one. Only to find out that the door hinges were manufactured incorrectly (door cut wrong). Temporarily installed door and ordered another door. Keep in mind, that the kitchen storm door has been in the garage all this time. The new door arrived and was to be installed by the manufacturer's rep and not the sub contractor. Did this on a Saturday (lucky me I didn't have to take another vacation day, right). He took off the temporary door installation, only to find out that the sub-contractor did a "make shift" job on building out the side studs. Went and picked up 2x4's and had the new door installed properly by the manufacturer's rep. NOTE: This door was measured by the sub-contractor and said it needed to be custom made. According to the manufacturer's rep, an off the shelf door would have fit (which would have saved me money & time). Now I have to call the sub contractor back to come out and install the kitchen storm door, which was not the responsibilty of the manufacture's rep who only was representing the extrior door company (another day off). The owner's son came out to do the work. Installed the door and determined this door was warped. Had to now reorder the custom storm door. Door came in and was installed by a different sub-contractor (another day off from work). Now keep in mind, this entire project which was to be completed in one possibly two days by two sub-contractros, did not get completed until September 2008 (took approximately 7 months form the original order). Lets talk about the interior door replacements: These were custom sized doors (measured by the sub-contractor) and were to replace existing slab doors. These doors were measured to fit over a wall-to-wall carpet (not installed). The doors were installed on the very first day they were scheduled and seemed to be just fine. The carpet came in and was installed. Only then did I find out that only two of the four doors were cut properly. Being very frustrated and not wanting to take more time off from work, I planed one door by myself and got that to work. Tried to plane the second door only to find out the bottom plug of the door was almost completely gone (cut-off during initial installation). These doors were to be custom made and there should have had at least 1" of plug in the bottom of the doors. Also during all of this time, two of the interior doors were hitting the srike plates and would not close. My front exterior door was hitting the strike plate and had dropped to the strike plate side. My exterior front storm door had dropped and could not be locked. Had to schedule another day off for both the exterior sub-contractor and the interior sub-contractor to come back to fix the problems. For the most part, they were resolved (front exterior door still swings in by itself and the storm door is not plum/level but locks). I paid for all of the materials up front and had a balance of appx $2000 for the labor/installation. During this whole process, I dealt with the same expediter at H.D. and he was always very understanding and apologetic. Said he had never had an order for work go so wrong. From the get go, I told him we would need to address all of my lost wages (vacation time) if & when this work was completed. He agreed! I met with him and discussed what I thought would be a fair reimbursement for my time ($1400.00 could have been more). My daily salary is $280.00). He said he would discuss it with his manager. Approximately 45 days later (10-23-08) a service manager called and left a message that they were going to give me a 10% discount!!! They want $1743.00 for the install. I called and talked with the service manager who was told to talk to me by the store manager. I told him it was unacceptable and that I needed to discuss this with the manager (who was not in). I will be calling him onthe 25th. FINALLY, NEVER WOULD I USE A HOME DEPOT INSTALLATION SERVICE OF ANY KIND! ALSO, IF THIS ISN'T RESOLVED TO "MY SATISFACTION", I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT IN A HOME DEPOT AGAIN (THERE IS A COMPETITOR!).

We had a large living room carpeted by Home Depot. We purchased the carpet through them and had them install it. The carpet was EXTREMELY poorly installed. There are ripples going all the way across the floor as well as little mounds against all of the walls. Obviously the installers did not know what they were doing--the carpet was not properly stretched. I even had a contractor come in and tell me he has never seen such a poor installation job. I contacted Home Depot regarding this issue and they ignored my complaint. I contacted them a second time and they simply sent a letter--complete with typos--telling me that my complaint was 'rejected'. I would never have anything installed by Home Depot again--we are stcuk with this awful carpet that guests trip over and many comment on. Of course, we are always happy to tell them just who installed our carpet just in case they are looking for the worst carpet installation service in the country,

Two years ago I purchased a fridge with extended warranty from Home Depot. Sixteen days ago my fridge stopped working. It took a full 12 days for them to get the right info in their computer system, then they sent a GE repairman instead of Maytag, which is the brand I have. I'm insisting that I need my fridge fixed or replaced, while they insist that it's not their fault. They apparently have no intention whatsoever to rectify the situation. How much longer do I have to wait? I will NEVER purchase ANYTHING from them again! Looks like I spent $1500 on a paperweight!