Left with an unusable bathroom. AVOID!
We purchased a bathroom/installation on the promise stated on the website: a “One Stop Service
Our fully qualified interior designers will design your bathroom and our trusted installation teams will manage your project and offer a quick completion time.” We were reassured by website claims that: “You’re In Safe Hands. We offer a ‘fixed’ quote for your products and you won’t pay a penny for your installation until it’s fully completed and you’re happy.”
After a showroom consultation using photos, a surveyor visited for a site inspection prior to finalising the quotation, so that the scale of the works was known and understood. A fixed price quotation was confirmed on the basis of that site visit.
The products were significantly more expensive than identical products elsewhere, but we believed the extra cost of using a single company would offer peace of mind and reliability. The same Morina unit I ordered for £736 is widely available elsewhere for £383 with free delivery. The Luxey basin we bought costs £179 INCUDING VAT elsewhere but £328 EXCLUDING VAT from here. Despite the huge price differential, we were content that it was worth paying so much more for the fittings to get a service that would be quick, courteous and reliable. How wrong we were!
Despite promises of fixed prices on goods, all of the prices quoted at the time we accepted the quote, paid the deposit and signed the contract increased when we came to pay the balance.
We were informed then that the promised brass shower screen was unavailable and we would need to source one elsewhere ourselves. Furthermore, brass was also unavailable for our chosen shower, and we must purchase a more expensive model from them.
The fittings were delivered on Monday 21 November 2022, the day the bathroom was ripped out - wrong taps, shower, and waste all in cheaper chrome and not the brass we had paid/ordered. The brass toilet flush was far too big to fit the cistern housing.
We were told the fittings we ordered would not be available until 30 November, more than a week after the bathroom was removed. Identical taps from a different supplier could be obtained on Monday 28 November – but even this would leave us a full week without washing facilities.
Repeated calls to the company went unanswered. Eventually I spoke to someone, who promised a visit to offer a resolution. It was now Friday 25 November, we had been without a bathroom for a five full days, and no end in sight.
They agreed to return on Monday with the correct fittings and a resolution. We heard nothing on Monday. The driver who delivered the taps brought the wrong ones again.
The fitter fitted the wrong taps then noticed the shower, was a different colour. After more than a week, we finally had a bath. It had the wrong taps and no side; there was no shower or waterproof sealant; no tiles; no flushing toilet; no wash hand basin or tap; no heating (at the end of November!); no shaver socket; no wall light; no door; and lights dangling from sockets in the ceiling. That was Monday. No one came on Tuesday. The fitter on Wednesday said the third set of taps were also wrong and he went away.
The rest of the house was in chaos. The stair carpet is covered in plastic, we have dust sheets through the house to the door, the furniture has been moved to allow workmen easy access... and it has been like this now for ten days and counting...
When I pushed for a resolution, they introduced the subject hitherto unmentioned of “extra” work to the walls requiring additional cost, yet the company observed the state of the walls, and provided a quotation for the work.
If there was any work necessary due to the state of the walls, they should have said during the survey, and factored it into the quotation or the fitter should have brought this to our attention when the bathroom was removed. The first we knew of "extra" work was when it was mentioned more than a week after the bathroom was removed and the “problem” was known. Given that we had already paid for the ceiling to be plastered and walls to be made good after tile removal, it is hard to understand in such a small room how so much additional cost was incurred, or why it was not mentioned for over a week, until a complaint was made. Even if true, this was as a result of the company's error.
A week and a half into a project that should have finished last week, we still have no functioning bathroom and no other bathroom. My husband is 75 and has 3 broken ribs. Their only resolution is to refund the brass items and we can start all over again trying to source elsewhere - all the time with no bathroom. When I complained on FaceBook they even blocked me!
November 30, 2022
Unprompted review