Complaint Review: Home Depot - Seattle Washington

This is a brief summary of my experience with Home Depot.

I hired Home Depot to replace my sidning in May of 2017, for work to begin in July 2017.  The work included tear down of old siding, replacing rotten plywood underneath, and installing new siding.

• Home Depot reschedules for August and drops off all material on August 1st.  They then reschedule the day before.  They continue to keep reschedule the day before work is to begin and then just cut off all communication.  I try calling, emailing, filing complaints, texting, anything to get a hold of someone.  They only say they cannot help and someone will get back to me.  Lots of material sits on lawn for several months.

• After calling and filing a complaint almost every day to no avail, they show up unannounced on Sept. 19 and begin siding.

• What was supposed to be a team removing my old siding, rotten plywood, and residing my house for a week turns to be one guy saying he will do it in 3 days. He begins to rush the job.

• I catch him siding over old rotten plywood and call in a complaint and a stoppage of work.

• Home Depot says they are sorry and we will have discussions about compensation for how they have treated me. Work continues, they side all but a portion of my house that will require some extra work, this is on 9/25. They say they will be back to finish job.

• I have contractor come out performing some work, he has to tear off portions of my house and finds that the siders have covered up more rotten wood with siding that they were supposed to replace. He has also stated that with all his years as a contractor he has never seen such poor workmanship on siding. (If anyone wants I have the letter of faults he found with the siding that I can share)

• I call in a complaint to Home Depot and they say they will investigate and discuss this issue with me, nothing happens.

• Home Depot claims they will have the rest of siding complete by end of October.  I ask if I can have another contractor finish the work and they claim it will void their warranty if I do that.

• On 10/18 it rains hard and I find out the front of my house is leaking like crazy. Home Depot claims it is not their fault but it did not leak anywhere near this degree before their siding install.  They calim it is due to leakage past a window but many factors don't add up.

• I have a window specialist come out and he can not see any signs of leakage.

It is now November, my siding is incomplete, there is a bunch of rotten wood beneath the siding, a bunch of material still siting in my yard since Aug, my house leaks, and Home Depot will still not have discussions with me or answer any of my complaints.  It is also raining heavily and I do not know what to do.  I have wanted to get the siding finished as to avoid any further damage due to rains but am afraid of losing warranty, if it's any good.