I knew that we were paying a little more to go with Woodbridge than other companies, but the expectation was that they level of professionalism and quality would more than make up for it... Boy were we wrong.
It started off bad when we just got a phone call out of the blue one morning from the installer saying he'll be there in 20 min. No scheduling, no call from the company saying we're ready to start, no coordination with us to even see if we'd be available. While I applaud the eagerness to get started, a professional company will call the customer before starting a project.
When we finally did get everything worked out with the company to begin the project the siding installer was like something out of a comedy movie. Every word out of his mouth was a lie. From the time he would show up every day (every night he said he'd be there at 7:30 the next morning, he showed up between 10 and 11:30 every day.). To how late he'd work (said until dark, but cut out around 4-5 most days and didn't even show one day after spending 20 min convincing us he was coming). All of this without a single phone call.
The project was quoted by both the sales person, the supervisor, and the installer as a 3-4 day job... It took 10 days to finish!
I had to baby sit the installer. Luckily I work from home and was able to keep an eye on him. We had to call out the supervisor because the guy was just wrapping the old rotting wood even though they he knew and told us he wouldn't. When we called they told him to stop work until the supervisor could inspect. Amazingly, that was the only day he showed up at 7:30 and immediately started covering up all the stuff he did wrong. We called the company, they called him and told him again to stop. He told them he was tying down some loose items he was afraid would blow in the pool. There was no wind, they had all been secured well enough to leave over night, and he was cutting out rotten wood he had already wrapped. I'm fairly confident the door frame wasn't going to blow into the pool. The whole siding install went on like this. The finished product was good, but only because we baby sat the install making them fix all sorts of things and had a supervisor come out.
The yard was left in a mess, grass is worn to death in several place (including the middle of my front yard) from where they set up equipment. We're still picking up pieces of plastic, metal, nails, and cigarette butts. We found over 20 nails in the driveway the morning after they finished the siding.
The door installation was a completely different story. The team was professional, clean, and safe. The problem here was that Woodbridge ordered the wrong size door and it was too big for the opening. The install team spent an entire day cutting and grinding to get the opening big enough to fit the door. Once that was done we found the next issue. Woodbridge ordered the door with the wrong trim color. So they couldn't even finish the install. We had to wait over the weekend with exposed wood in rain and weather until later the next week when someone could come out and wrap it in the correct color.
The finished product is good, we are happy with the final results, but for the price we paid, in no way was it worth the headache and pain we went through getting it installed. Even after the project was done, Woodbridge sent us the warranty packet with copies of all the paperwork, except they failed here as well, not even including the siding warranty, just the paperwork for the door.
The lack of professionalism and customer care that this company showed left us incredibly disappointed. Communication was terrible, attention to detail was terrible, and they showed almost no consideration for the customer experience.