Home Depot kitchen renovations

No experience with them but what’s the benefit of going through HD/Lowes rather than straight to the contractors? Seems like they’d just be a middle man taking a cut

Well then, you’re calling the wrong contractors.

There are contractors out there that take pride in their work and their word.

No experience myself, but I have heard a handful of stories from others. Quality of work will be the luck of the draw. Pricing is comparable, because HD is getting cheaper workers, then adding their price markup; I do not know if it's because of lack of experience, lack of quality, or contractual obligation

When we started our renovations, we went to HD with our kitchen layout, which was not changing. As it turned out, we wound up using a kitchen-specific company. Their price was about half of HD’s, which didn’t even include removal of our existing cabinets and counters. Lots of folks use HD and Lowes, just keep in mind they are only the middleman in the process.

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i used them for carpet replacement. the crew they sent out was a father and son team and we were very pleased with their work.

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i have 0 problem using their carpet flooring teams as they're just local contractors but probably wouldn't on a bathroom/kitchen remodel.

regarding the earlier poster who said "just go to the contractor," a lot of contractors aren't even taking jobs. full GMs and new builds are steady money with very little interruption for them, and honestly just repeating the same process without having to deal with existing layouts, out of code homes.

when the new build market crashes, sure, but right now it's probably hard to get somebody nailed down.

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Has anyone ever used Home Depot for a remodel/renovation? I have an appointment with them to see what it's all about and get some prices next week and just wondering if I'm going to regret using them or not. Looks like they use local contractors. What's been the board's experience with using them? I'd check with Lowes too but it doesn't look like they do actual renovations, only installation services for certain things. I've gotten prices elsewhere before and they were astronomical, I assume Home Depot may be even higher since there's probably an extra fee to go through them but I'll find out soon enough.

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They are going to send a guy from Max Home, LLC to your house to bid the job. I recently went to HD for a bathroom remodel and that is who they sent. Ultimately, I did not go with them but their price was competitive to what I ended up doing.

Shame you are getting the run around on finding a reliable contractor. I had a friend use HD for flooring on one of his rentals and it turned out well.

Iam not much help on the contractor part but I sell appliances. I have been able to beat HD prices and we do offer installation for the appliances. If any of that interests you send me an email on what you are looking for and I can send you some options.

Shawn@dts-direct.com

I used HD for my Kitchen about 10yrs ago. I'am in Tx. though. I did the demo down to the studs, moved and added some electrical and had a buddy put in a new tile floor. Went to HD and picked out cabinets, sink, counter tops and the apliances. They installed the cabinets,sink and countertop. I did the rest. If I remember rt HD gives you a contact person or number to call if any problems. Our cabinet guy decided to not install a oakwood panel on the pantry. We called HD and the made him come back out and fix it. Overall a good experiance except for dates of deliveries/install. HD would say hey your cabinets will arrive on Tue. and the wouldnt get there till Friday. Stuff like that. Good work just slow to get it done. Thats all I got.

You are thinking like I was. I wanted to do all I could to keep cost down. I have a small kitchen, 10x16 but went with nice stuff. Ended up paying about 20k total. One thing I forgot to mention I would do differant would be to sell a kidney to have someone do the drywall. Frick a drywall install. Good luck.