This is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard of. I called Hansons Windows today to have them come out and give me an estimate on new gutters for our house. The salesman asked me when a good time would be to meet us, I told hime Saturday Morning would be fine he asked if Debby would be there I said no, she has been working 7 10s & 12s at her job and would be until after the first of the year. he then told me he could not meet with just me!!!!!


What kind og B.S is this, who the heck runns this company???


Rocky

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I called them when I was looking for improvements to my home. I told them all I wanted was an estimate on roof and vinyl siding. They told me that the appointment would last 45 minutes for their sales consult. I told them I didn't want a sales consult, just an estimate and they said that's how they work so I told them to forget about it.

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I have heard of that happening with empire carpet someone i know said they would not come out until the husband and wife were both home, i think it is pretty stupid.
edited to add maybe try chucks roofing he is local here is the number and address 2405 Fort St - (313) 386-8962

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My mother in law had carpet done by Empire this past spring. It's been replaced twice because of unraveling. The first crew, she said, couldn't even speak English.

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Rocky, I also use Mulligan Construction. If you want their info let me know and I'll PM you when I get home.

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Rocky, did you call any LP business' for estimates? I just wondered because you always talk about supporting the business' here in LP.

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Well lets see since you seem to wanna insinuate something Discount Carpet (now out of business), installed the carpet, in my house $3300.00 they installed my store carpet $2000.00 in past central carpets did my appartments, 1800.00 last time they were done by Discount carpet, use to buy all my paint at leat $500.00 a year from Detroit Paint and Glass ( Now Dream Pool) after Det. P&G was gone I went to Hank at Park Floor covering Now out of business. Terry at Asap signs does all my signs he is on Fort In LP. When I wholesaled cars a few years back I spent about $400.00 a month with Painters supply for supplies to wheel out and touch up cars. Bought all of my work cloths at that time from Central, get my hair cut at fantastic sams. Spend about $400 -$500 a month in gas at the gas station on Fort and New York. Get all of our Meats at Jumbos market, shop at Krogers, Had the glass and block company on Southfield do the windows in back of my store and the basement windows at my house and my rental house on Ford Blvd, and my House on 9th and plum in Wyandotte. Buy all of our Appliances for our rental homes appartments and even my home thru Phil at Quality appliances on Fort And Liberty. Have bought 11 used cars from First class Autos on Fort and Buckingham, Go to the brewery at least once a month, along with Hobnobs once or twice a month, Bill and Sons on Dix does all my Auto repairs, had a new transmission installed last year at the Tranzman on Southfield......Oh there is a lot more I just figured I would nep what you are trying to insinuate in the budd.....


Donnabird I did not know Chucks did Gutter, I called them they are going to get back with me today, they do the seamless gutters I want.

I went with Hansons simply because I caught their add on the boob tub this morning.I did e-mai lthe owner and told him I thought this policy was rediculous, don't know if I will get a response or not.

Rocky

Last year I posted something about the Wallside windows....I am still impressed with these things we have not had a single problem yet, and what a difference in energy consumption.....

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There's another home improvement place up on Dix by Goddard too, I think Dix goes through Lincoln Park too.

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We had Hansons and Wallside out for estimates. Wallside simply had a better price, plus we got one year no interest, so we choose Wallside.

Once we decided to go with Wallside, my wife saw a commercial for Hansons that had the President of Hanson's saying, "If you can find a better deal, we'll give $100 towards the purchase of their windows." So my wife called them on it. They made her fax over our estimate, then we had to also fax the final receipt once work was complete. After all that, their sales manager tells my wife that the $100 offer is only good for comparable products. He said that Hansons was far superior to Wallside, and that the offer was only good for something like Anderson's and Pella windows.

Now, I know that Anderson and Pella are some of the best windows money can buy. I had them both out for estimates, and have seen them both installed, and I see very little difference in windows from Hanson's and Wallside. In my eyes they are comparable products and they are each other's main competitors.

We also had Magic Windows out. They were very expensive, but their windows are made from Fiberglass, versus Vinyl like Hansons and Wallside.

Either way, I would not recommend Hansons based on my past experience. On the other hand, we are very happy with our Wallside windows.

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I have been wanting to get seamless gutters too but since i had the tree in front of my house cut down i just repainted them along with my house.
I have used central carpet too john and cindy are such nice people to work with i highly reccomend them.

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Oh thats the name of the Road I take to get to Hobnobs....Thanks.....I had gotten into the habit of calling it the road that needed paving 10 times worse then Fort St!!!


Rocky

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My buddy works as an installer for Magic. He mainly does the shower liners. I went through him to order my new front window, (11'x6' w/tempered glass), on my house because both Hansens and Wallside were like $2200 and I got it through him at cost for $1300 and we installed it on my lunch hour. Awesome window.

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Jeyhey we used Wallsides no interst for 12 months to, this is a great deal if you pay it off in that 12 months, you can't get a loan from the bank for that cheap, you do wanna make sure you pay it off in that 12 months though the interest rates are like 24% or something.

I am going to have wallside put some windows in my moms house this year.

Rocky

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i have called places for estimates b-4 that wont talk to just me, they want my wife and i togeather. i tell them we can see them together, at about 02:00 in the a.m. sun. morn. which isnt to far from the truth, with our work sched. and other things we only see each other a couple times a month. dont waste your time with companys like that.

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Where is Central Carpet at? Thanks

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our house has 32 windows and 5 doors.we were looking to have them replaced.everywhere i called they had to talk to both my husband and myself.i explained that at that time my husband was working 14-15 hrs a day 7 days a week and just was not available,i also told them i was joint owner of this shack and my husband would be the first to tell them you want a sale talk to me.wallside were the reasonable people worked with us and we bought from them.they want both of you here to talk to thinking they will reduce the time they have to take to make a sale if they have you both together.a long standing ritual at our house is no matter what we are after,after it is all said and done we do discuss it and make a decision,and we dont dont do it with the hard sell salesmen there either,.long live wallside.

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I believe the place your talking about is home base. I had work done by them a few years ago and wasn't too happy. I had a driveway done by them and it all crumbled within a few months and it was like pulling teeth to get them to come and repour it. We finally had our lawyer give them a call and they were able to make it out after that.

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I'm just curious - does Hanson and Wallside give lifetime warranties on the windows? I know Anderson does and I think Pella does too.

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Wallside is 25 or 35 years. I am not sure about Hanson.

My parents and In-laws both have Wallside and they both have had them out for maintenance. Both times Wallside was real friendly and accomodating, they didn't even need to show receipts or anything like that (I think Wallside keeps good records because the warranty is transferable if you sell your house).

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