Better check out the rules for installing water heaters here. The sign says 235.00 for a water heater install but it wont tell you that you also have to pay for a permit, a drip pan, new fittings, new hoses, 35.00 for an estimate that is non refundable. You are much better off to get someone from around the area to install it for you if you cant. Most local plumbers will do the job for about 150.00. By the time Lowe's is done with you you will have spent 800.00 or more for a 350.00 appliance. Don't purchase an extended maintenance plan. You are better off to just buy the next series heater up i.e. a 9 year rather than a 6 year since you wont have to deal with the crap from a second rip off. Oops forgot that you have to pay extra for pick up and if the location is elevated there is another charge as well as the headaches that go with hooking up electricity. Plan ahead because it will take you a half hour just to get the paper work done and then you still have to wait for an installer to call you and make an appointment to check out everything first. Then you go in to purchase everything. Hope you didn't need hot water for a couple of days. Just hire someone local and save yourself a lot of hassles.

November 2009 purchased over $4, 000 in pergo flooring and installation.Contractor started mid November and finished mid Feburary .Incorrectly installed, floor is bowing and quarter round peeling .Have tried to get some resolution from Lowe;s, they all agree it's a poor job and should be re-done.I have unsucessfully to get them to do something.They come out and look but that's about all that they will do.I am at the point I am ready to hire an attorney and slap a law suit againest Lowe's.That seems to be the only way to get their attention.I will never do any business with this co.again.

I have been in this business for more than 7 years. I originally came over from Home Depot, which now is something I deeply regret! Prior to that, I worked in the restaurant business for about 10yrs., where at one point, I was a store manager.
The fortunate thing is that Lowes itself, is not a bad company to work for. However, my store / store manager is a diferent story! Prior to working in this industry, I ran successful, award-winning fast food restaurants with happy employees and even happier customers . I also held a couple successful sales jobs. In my entire work history, I have never come across a bigger ASSHOLE, than Mark Gullotti. He is a poor leader by example, he treats his management staff like dog shit, and then can't seem to understand why the people he oversees, absolutely HATE HIM. And it's not just staff. I've had a few of my customers even come in and complain about his rudeness. Generally in the corporate world, you see a distance or lack of understanding between what actually goes on at the store level, and the "suits" as I call them. It's understandable that a "head-honcho" at your corporate office may not understand some of the day to day issues that go on in a store, but for a store manage not to understand it, is just rediculous. My problem really started when I began to have health isses. Since that time, Mark has made it his mission to make my life miserable in the hopes that I will one day quit. Unfortunately, I am not one of his "brainless pawns, that will do whatever he says. (especially if I don't believe it's correct/ ethical. Example: We've had several HR managers go through our store in the past few years, none of them lasting more than a year. Why? Well, because they weren't willing to sit and preach the policies to employees, while the store manager will overlook every poilcy and expect them to back him. Now, as far as myself..I have tried endlessly to move up within the company, I am one of the top-performers at my job within the district, but ther's one catch (or maybe a few) I'm brutally honest, I have missed time due to personal and family medical issues. -so accordking to them, I have an "attendance" issue. (even though I have have doctor's notes, hospital statements, and letters from my mother's oncologist!!!) Pretty unbelievable right?

If anyone else reading this has had a similar issue, please post something on here! I'm now in jeopardy of losing my job!
Did I mention that my "final" write up consisted of "punching in 10mins early 3 times in 2 wks, calling out one day, and being late one day, even though one of the managers was aware of the appointment. Now I'm being told I may lose my job/ be documented because I spent my 15 break out in my car, smoking.

Please help..do I contact the labor board<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Monday 11/9/09 at 3pm i went to lowes to get some paint from lowes. The store was completly dead yet there were like 5 employees behind the customer service counter conversating. Aftere about 20 minutes i had picked out my colors NOT 1 person asked me if i needed help. So, i stood at the desk for about 15 minutes and the girls behind the customer service desk practically watched me wait, and the customer service desk is about 10 feet away from the paint counter. Finially, i went over and asked for some assistance and this girl called someone from the back to come mix the paint. A few minutes later he came out and was incredibly rude n was rushing, i totally regret not looking at his name tag! So i figured they were short on staff for the paint counter n left upset. THEN!... about 530 pm i went back to get some extra paint rollers and some tinted oil based primer. stood at the counter for 20 minutes ...literally. The same girls were working behind the customer service counter so i asked them if they could get someone to help me (clearly they were still just standing there conversating doing nothing productive). She said some one will be right out. 10 minutes later... the SAME GIRL said are you waiting for some one and i said yes im still waiteg for someone to help me. I honestly don't even know why i stayed there i should have jst left. So finally someone came out and helped me and had to call someone on his cell phone to ask them how to tint the primer and do everything else. Im not the type to complain, infact ive had some preety bad service experiences and this is the first time i have ever felt the need to complain. It was the most unbelievably terrible service i have EVER seen in my life i am embarrased for who ever runs that store. I just would like them to know how bad there staff is and you should probably do some reevaluating!

I was once employed at this lowes. First off I had to train myself. I soon realized that I knew more about the department i worked in (hardware) and the products than my department manager. She was very lazy and incompetant ( I hear she still is). If you work here long enough you realize the store is run by CSA's the managers ( Department, Zone, Operations, and Store Manager) are idiots. The higher your rank the less you know. This store illustrates the Peter Principle very well. David, try actually working a full week like most managers. Ken, you've kissed enough a%% come up for air. Ernie, you're a joke seriously. Maria...lol, you get the award for the Laziest, Most Incompetant, Undeserving Manager of all the Lowes stores. Oh yeah you should really reevaluate the excuses you come up with for your two hr lunch breaks, sudden illnesses, and MIA moments. You're starting to repeat your lies over and over again. People are noticing.