The main reason I picked Hatloes is I support small local companies even if it cost more and also I was told that they have their own employees do the work which is not true according to the installers that came to my home, they use contractors. My first contact with this company was in person at their store on May 6 working on a complete kitchen remodel, I needed flooring, counter tops, sink and fixtures, paint, tile back splash and I found the tile I had to have which also was the planning of the entire kitchen floor to ceiling around this one imported tile from Turkey. I was told that they could get it within a week don't worry, it is in the warehouse in Kent this was the first of the many times I inquired via email, phone and in person over a two and a half month period and was told the same thing. On that same day I selected the counter top and asked for a bid, got it quick. I then selected a couple different floor samples, thought about it for five days, showed a friend and said yes this is it. Then it started, not returning phone calls, phone calls being screened, not replying to emails, appointments changed, when I called to find out if the design person was still coming to see the kitchen and also measure the floors since she was late for the appointment I was told she was with another customer and the owner was coming to measure my floors. The owner of company comes hurrying into my home in his shorts apologizing for his appearance with his wife waiting out in the truck because they are on their way to a baseball game and the person that was suppose to measure was ill, but later she told me it was her son that was ill, neither of them knew I had called to see what was happening with the appointment. Then it was not until a month later June 4th that anyone checked on the flooring, just guess, not available it had been recalled and she was not sure why they even had a sample on the floor for customers to choose. I had to start all over again and I was not looking for easy tan vinyl floor that everybody has. I finally settled on something that would work, but not super great and it is on the east coast, 16 days to get to Seattle. The counter top and sink which I purchased from Hatloes gets installed by another company while waiting for the flooring. Then on July 9th the floor installers arrive they think the prep work is great and this will not take 3 or 4 hours, not anytime at all. They did not bring enough flooring, someone did not order enough or measured wrong and they want to put a seam in the middle of the kitchen from end to end of the high traffic area, my husband said no and now the installer is ticked off and really has an attitude. He has to wait several hours for more flooring to be delivered from Kent, does a very poor job and leaves. The next day someone comes to see the work and measure for the back splash she has a clipboard is writing stuff down and pointing out poor work that she says needs to be fixed and now we have to wait until Monday before the installer can come back and finish the job completely. He comes for about 30 minutes, does some trimming around the edges and tells my husband if we want anything else fixed with the floor we need to talk to the store, he has nothing else to fix. When I contacted the store they told me that the installer fixed everything. We were missing glue in most of the areas a foot away from the wall, the molding will not fit due to there is vinyl up the side of the cabinets, there are deep scratch marks from their trim knives on my brand new 16000.00 custom cabinets, the seams are splitting apart after 6 days, seams are crooked some cut high some cut low. They did send another contractor a couple days later to fix as much as he could, he was not able to fix it all. Then I get an email on July 15 stating that the tile I have been asking about since May 7th is not available until the end of August and beside that they do not have any installers available until then anyway. This email also suggested that I might want to select another tile that would be easier to get. As for selecting another tile at this point when the kitchen is complete with the exception of the back splash and they have known all along from the start of design that the entire kitchen has been focused on this selection of this one tile is just an absurd suggestion. My budget was 36000.00 and it all started with the one tile why in the world would they suggest such a stupid idea as just pick something else out. After giving them the benefit of the doubt several times all I did was get myself ripped off. I did send an email directly to Jim Hatloe just a few days ago and never heard a word, I have learned my lesson. I will never recommend Hatloes to anyone ever.