Mohawk Complaint - Mohawk Doesn't Care - Hard wood flooring - floating

Hard wood flooring - floating - Complaint

Review by ZeldaB on 2009-07-01

NEW MEXICO -- We built a new home recently and used Mohawk for all of our flooring; tile, carpet and hard wood. We have a concrete slab and ordered/purchased a floating hard wood floor. Our contractor told us that because of the slab and shifting/settling of the ground a floating floor would allow the floor to "give" and not gap or break should the slab move. I don't if it was installed correctly or not. Right now (over 3 months since we complained) our flooring is still not right. Our installer came by to look at it after we noticed that the floor was very wavy - high spots that you could actually see move up and down when you stepped on them - and when it started to separate between planks. They tried to fix it by ripping up some of the flooring and "pushing it together" with big straps. Obviously that did not work. They called Mohawk back in the middle of April to get them involved with the problem. Mohawk had to send out an "independent inspector" before anything could be done. It took almost 4 weeks to get an inspector and then he didn't turn in his report for over 1 week after that. Of course Mohawk pays this "independent" inspector and found they were not at fault and it was the installers problem. I tried to talk to customer service and they said they could not speak with me, they only speak to the distributors/resellers. I asked to speak to someone who COULD speak with me and I was told that no one ever speaks directly to the customer, it's their policy! I guess I should have known - Mohawk got it's money from the distributor/installer and the installer got our money and now we're left with part of our floor torn up and no idea if it will ever be fixed. A lot of finger pointing going on and Mohawk DOES NOT CARE if the customer is happy or not. I hope everyone who reads this will seriously consider NOT USING MOHAWK for any of your flooring needs. According to the independent inspector Mohawk will let anyone sell their product as long they pay them. Oh... and our floor gets smudges on it too and dog Drool is super hard to get up!

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Posted by madconsumer on 2009-07-01:

it does sound like an installer issue. engieered wood floors are very stable and uniform. what type of under layment was useds? was it rated for concrete?

Posted by BokiBean on 2009-07-01:

Go right back to your installer and don't let them fob you off on Mohawk. They put it in wrong.

Posted by jktshff1 on 2009-07-01:

Yep, installer and distributor you purchased it from. That's where the blame lies.