Dad's Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
About us
10 Employees. No subs. Cost determined by the job. Travel charges may apply. Extra Charge for after hours service may apply.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Cleaning - carpet, draperies & curtains, mattresses, oriental rugs, tile & grout, upholstery, wood flooring
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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They were not the cheapest estimate we received, but very close in price and just seemed more professional. Delivery took a week longer than I expected because we were having it delivered, but was no big deal. I was called on a Wednesday to let me know the rug was ready and that was the time I expected it, but because they only do deliveries on Wednesdays, I had to wait until the following Wednesday. Again, wasn't an issue for me and we will certainly deal with them again.
"Thank you for your kind words. I will pass them along to the technicians that took care of you."
That said I was NOT pleased when the man arrived at hour newly-purchased home to do the cleaning. When I originally spoke with the owner, I gave him the approximate dimensions of the rooms in our house (we hadn't yet received the exact room sizes). I did let him know that the rooms were larger than normal and that we had a bonus room as well. We were given a quote of $325 to clean and add a protectant to the carpet. This seemed like a lot of money to invest in builder-grade carpet, but it seemed a better alternative to the cost of replacement (though there were practically no dark stains or problems with the carpet).
The technician called me from my house (I wasn't able to be there) and explained that the owner actually misquoted me over the phone. After he measured the rooms, he quoted me more than $500 to do the same job! I couldn't believe the price differential. He said he could "help me out" by still conditioning the carpet but leaving out the protectant at the end to keep the price closer to $300+. I politely asked him to leave.
I was disappointed and felt as though they had played the oldest trick in the book: quote something over the phone, schedule the appointment, and jack up the price upon arrival. No doubt I will find myself a different carpet cleaning company for future jobs.
"Thank you for your kind words about our responsiveness and professionalism. I apologize that we were inaccurate with our over the phone estimate. I'm sorry you felt like we intentionally tricked you. I can understand you feeling that way but that was not our intent. We are inaccurate over the phone by more that $50 less than 1% of the time but you have reminded us to work harder to find ways to never be even less inaccurate with our phone estimates."
I found Dad's on Angie's List and gave them a call. They were able to come out the next day and do both, the restretching and the steam-cleaning. (For whatever reason, our decorator wanted to use two different groups and thought they needed to be on different days because the scheduling would be too difficult to coordinate) The steam cleaning guy came out right on time, although the re-stretcher was running behind from another job. (I thought this was reasonable, seeing as I made my appointment less than 24 hours before). I asked them if they were going to have enough time (it was already 3pm), and they assured me it would get done.
Our basement is pretty large (includes a guest bedroom, a hallway, stairs and a large main area), and so it was taking longer than they expected (since they had not come out to make an estimate for time). The guys offered to come in the next day (Saturday) in the morning, so that the carpet would be ready to go when the painters started on Monday morning.
The guys were so helpful and did a great job. It was a breath of fresh air after being told repeatedly that it was not possible to have it done on the time table we needed, to having them come over and just do it. They did a great job, and we will definitely use them again.
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