A bit of a mixed bag with Alan Kinghorn Plumbing & Heating:
Pros:
+ Boiler installed to spec on time.
+ Stuck to quote, despite job turning out to be bigger than originally expected.
+ Alan, Robert and Michael were all very pleasant and friendly.
+ Addressed issues I had very quickly - a joiner was sent round the following day.
Cons:
- Little effort to tidy up, leaving the kitchen and bathroom in a state: surfaces & cabinets were filthy, floor needed swept, chairs had dirt and splinters on, bath and shower had dirty marks on them etc.
- Used one of our kitchen pans to contain a leak, complete with black residue, and didn't wash up.
- Plumber left with my house keys on the Friday, rather than leaving them in the property, and didn't return them until Sunday.
- Boxing for vertical pipes was damaged and not replaced.
- Old boiler flue left sticking out of the wall.
- Fairly extensive damage to our floors: lino had to be scrapped (fair enough), and a channel was cut through the floorboards rather than lifting them in sections, the joiner they sent commented "they must have had a bad day".
To be fair to them on the last point: they reckon they couldn't have gotten the floor up without pulling the cabinets out, but the job they did was somewhat shoddy regardless.
All in all I got the boiler I asked for at a price I was quoted, despite them having to do a lot extra work, but I feel communication and professional courtesy was a little lacking.
Stuart