Wickes Reviews

Name: Wickes
Address: Wickes Building Supplies, Rhosilli Road, Northampton
Rating: 1.50

1.5 Rating 1,702 Reviews

11 %

of reviewers recommend Wickes

About Wickes:

Wickes continues to be one of the major brands in the DIY and Home Improvement sector. We have a range of over 10,000 products (98% own brand), and are able to offer our customers everyday low prices by sourcing the best quality products at the lowest possible cost. Most of our products are available for next-day delivery, including big & bulky stuff. At Wickes you can discover a whole host of inspirational ideas for your Home and Garden, with some of our key products being doors, flooring, tiles, kitchens and gardens. Launched in 2006, the Wickes transactional website features product details covering the complete Wickes range. Our website is constantly being enhanced to help improve customer satisfaction, so why not be a part of that journey by helping customers find us.

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Wickes Building Supplies, Rhosilli Road
Northampton
NN4 7JE

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Wickes 1 star review on 23rd October 2024

Alan

"My review has to do more with Wickes in general. The staff in store are lovely and really know their stuff. However, our experience with Wickes as a whole has been completely shocking. Almost 3 years ago we had our bathroom redone and decided to use Wickes for supply and install as thought this would be the least hassle route. However, this was a HUGE mistake. Firstly, the installer completely messed up the initial install. We left him for a day and came back to find out that he had full tiled rather than half tiled, he installed the showerhead on the wrong side, leaky tap and a whole host of other issues. Took us over a year to get those issues sorted (and we ended up just accepting the tiling as it was). We thought things we sorted, then noticed that some wallpaper in the room adjoining the bathroom was starting to peel. On inspection, we discovered significant damp and mould developing due to the shower leaking. We chased for months for them to come out and resolve. They did come out and stated that they had resolved the issues and it did seem better for a while. However, last autumn we were getting flooring replaced in the rooms adjoining the bathroom and, on taking the current floor up, discovered the entire skirting board was rotten and half the plasterboard. Turns out the leaks weren't all fixed and there has been a slow leak for months behind the wall. We got send out replacement items (as they determined they needed to replace the shower (it turned out the original installer hadn't put proper supports under the shower and the flex in the tray was causing small, unnoticeable gaps in the seals), but these arrived well before Christmas and we are still waiting for an installer (towards the end of April). We have been given provisional dates but these never pan out. This was our only shower in the house. Last autumn, because of the issues, we paid over \u00a33k to get our small toilet redone to fit a little shower. This expenditure was solely down to the issues in the main bathroom. I'm now desperate to have the issues resolved but am at my wits ends as to what to do. :-( We've been living without a main shower and with a gaping hole in the wall in the adjoining room.\r\nAs another negative to Wickes. We needed our kitchen redoing last summer and, while we would never use Wickes again for install, we liked some of their kitchen units and decided to purchase and get our own installer to put them in. The units are lovely, but the process of getting the right items delivered was horrific. Half the items missing on first delivery, then several incorrect items delivered. Took so much back and forth to eventually get the correct items. How hard can it be to deliver what is on a clear inventory of items?!?!? To add to this, Wickes refused to collect many of the incorrect items - mainly really long kickboards. So now we are left with the cost of disposing of these?!? This is simply not right. I don't understand how such a company can be so completely shocking at customer service, delivery, etc., in what they do as a business!!!!!"

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“Ordered fence panels, they didn't turn up, spoken to 3 different agents who all promised to get back to me but no-one bothers. All they can tell me is the store the order went to, not why it wasn't delivered or whether it ever will be. Customer Services have closed their mailbox so I can't even raise an official complaint. If they can't fulfil the order they should just say so and give me a refund, but ignoring me in the hope that I'll go away is disgraceful. They've taken my money but there is no sign of the goods - that's theft and in breach of the Consumer Rights Act, which I'm guessing they don't care about judging by some of the reviews. I won't ever buy from Wickes again, and will quite happily advise others not to either. I urge the rest of you still waiting for goods or refunds to write directly to their MD - they publicise his details on the web. Something might happen then...”

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Posted 4 years ago

“We ordered 2 bathrooms That were fitted in February 2020 and spent over £12 500. We used the design service where enjoying a soak was discussed Within these sessions. We were shocked to find that after fitting, the baths are very shallow! We wrote to customer services but they just offered £90 refund “as a good will gesture”. It will cost around £1000 for us to buy and fit 2 new baths. I wouldn’t advise buying wickes baths if you enjoy a bath as they are only 28cm to the overflow. They don’t supply these specifications and I suspect the designer didn’t have the knowledge of the bath products to be aware this is a shallow bath and not suitable. The installers were fantastic however I wouldn’t advise purchasing wickes baths and customer services are not helpful or bothered if there is an issue. The furniture ombudsmen also won’t help resolve as the bathroom designers don’t take notes during the design discussion so you can’t prove what’s been discussed. Wickes design service claims they know their products well and they want to ensure customer satisfaction but in practise this is not the case in our experience. We regret having used wickes for our bathroom installations. I have left this review on another site and the managing director left a response saying “this needed to be looked into again” but we never heard anything. Shocking design and customer service. Use somewhere else.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Can’t even email, waited 3 months for a refund.was promised a refund on 2 June.within 21 days !! Can’t believe email isn’t functioning!!! Service is appalling and now being told another 14 days wait !”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Hanger Lane Wickes is absolutely rubbish. I bought a kitchen design by Paul, I will never recommend him to anyone. He was ok until we paid after that he will not answer your phone calls, he made so many mistakes in the design and asked us to pay extra money. I place my order a few months ago and till now struggle to finish the kitchen because he doesn't care. He is very unprofessional!! Do not waste your time and money!!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Ordered a door and paid for a timed delivery. Absolutely nothing happened - unable to get to speak to customer "support", emails returned. But they took my £255. Thieves.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Wasted trip after website says 20 log roll with spike in stock , can't reserve online they just use as a scam to get u into the store to be told your the 5th person today who been in for that product. Wasted 2 hours of the day”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Why can’t I give zero stars? I will not waste my time relating my experience with Wickes Online Ordering, Delivery and Customer Non-Service. Suffice to say that I totally agree with all the negative reviews. SHAMBOLIC. APPALLING. AVOID!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Order not delivered. After a 40 minute wait to speak to customer services I was told the delivery had been cancelled and someone from the local branch would telephone. No call, no refund, branch not answering the telephone. Never again”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Delivered half the order with no contact !! 509996924”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Appalling . Never had such bad service. Order number HY-501291118. Had a message to say that they would deliver yesterday so I booked a days annual leave to accept delivery. Had a message at 10.30 am yesterday to say "delivered signed for by 'No stock available '". waited all day but it never turned up and I spent 1 and a half hours waiting on the phone to query it. Had another message yesterday to say it would be delivered today. So I booked a second day's annual leave to wait in for it. They turned up at 10.15 am with the wrong items. Spent 30 minutes waiting on the phone to query it. Had a phone call at 3pm to say they will deliver it tomorrow .. ..we'll see what happens.. ???. 2 days holiday waisted and 2 days at home just waiting... this will be the last time I buy ANYTHING from Wickes...”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Simply ordered six deck boards online in April. Four weeks later and after two deliveries i had received four boards. No idea why they couldnt just deliver all six at the same time. Now we are well into June and still im waiting for the remaining boards. Rang customer services four times now, only for the staff to tell me they will look into it and call me back. Unfortunately they never do. Guess Wickes must be growing the trees required from seed to complete this order. Being a professional landscaper, I simply cannot deal with incompetence and the complete disregard that this company shows its customers. I will never use them again. Yes 1 star is very generous!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“waited for items for two weeks and paid £8 (whole order was £15) for delivery. never turned up. such a waste of time and money. did not even bother to inform me. no apologies such a worst customer service is hard to find. first and last order with wickes.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“As you will see from the original posting - still intact below, things went VERY wrong. However, when the posting online was brought to the attention of senior management, the Wickes fitters were empowered to address any issues so that my install will happen. It is a shame that both I and the Wickes fitter had to go through 20+ pointless phone calls and all of the trauma that we did to get there. Here is the original review... Wickes have had more than £15k of our money for a new kitchen since January. Planned installation was April 20th. Eta was delayed due to covid19. However, at beginning of June, we were advised that they were ready. So shipment arranged for the 26th June and their fitters arranged for the 29th. However, the fitter rang yesterday to ask if I was aware of delays to 2 units. No I was not, so rang Wickes. Waited 35 minutes for the call to be answered, to be told that the order was going to ship as planned on the 26th. I stated that the fitter had been advised that 2 units would be missing - meaning that the kitchen could not be fitted. Wickes agreed to call the fitter, who rang me back after the call and advised that it was correct that 2 key units would not be shipped. Today I received a text advising that just 1 key unit would not ship, but would be shipped approx a week later. This was too late for the Wickes fitters! So I rang Wickes again, this time waiting 25 minutes to speak to somebody. This time the Wickes person went away for 10 minutes to investigate, and then came back and said that there were 6 units not going to be shipped - 1 was going to be shipped next week, but the other 5 had no eta! Bear in mind that this kitchen was paid in full in January and should have been fitted in April! So, we now have no working kitchen as we are ready for a new kitchen and Wickes change their mind as to what will be shipped and what will not. Either way the kitchen fitters, arranged by Wickes, will not be able to fit the kitchen in the timeframe that they planned - and that there is NO ETA for 5 key missing units! This is NOT A JOKE! Wickes are an absolute disgrace! Oh, and by the way, we have no point of contact as the very helpful, knowledgable and experienced sales person (15 years with Wickes) has been made redundant! I have just been waiting on the phone to talk to Wickes Customer Services to be bombarded with information about how wonderful Wickes Kitchens are and how, as a customer, you will have a dedicated project manager to deal with ALL issues till project completion. IT IS NOT TRUE!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Terrible customer services. Stock levels low so i ended up paying for click and collect at 2 local stores getting half my order from each. Received a text to say order was ready for collection so i went to store to be told the items were not in stock and they had issued a refund. I immediately phoned customer services and explained i needed the complete order (14 packs of felt shingles) so could i collect the remaining 7 packs from another store. I was told no, the refund was being processed and i need to wait 5 days for the refund but to get the job done pay out another £415.00 to get the items i require. I have never experienced customer service this poor. You have lost a customer.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Absolutely shabby customer service well I say service very very loosely no service whatsoever We ordered a bathroom from you months ago finally it was started this week and then it was discovered there was asbestos under the floor even though we have had plenty of people survey the bathroom nothing was discovered until now and as the bathroom had been taken out we had to employ people to get rid of the asbestos at a considerable cost to us in order for the work to continue What would have happened if we had demanded the old bathroom be put back and not paid for the workmen ? Where would that have left you? We want an explanation from everybody at Wickes Truro SR”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Ordered/paid for 33 shelving parts on 8/6/20 with earliest delivery 22/06/20. 9 parts, with 1 damaged, turned up 22/06/20, have been chasing customer services for balance of 24 parts all day on the 24/06/20. Totally shambolic delivery surface with no one knowing whats being delivered where.... NEVER AGAIN !!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Bought items online, only partially delivered and customer service cannot do anything about it. Customer service were unable to reschedule the delivery or refund it until they got confirmation from the shop that the items hadn't been delivered. I have no confidence that this is going to happen, this is the same shop that had cancelled a delivery previously without letting me know. The same shop that is not picking up the phone. So, right now, I'm over £200 out of pocket, don't have the materials to do the work but have to spend another £200 to get the work going. If I had to do this again, I wouldn't buy the materials online as it seems that the shops in charge of deliveries are not really set up for it.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“customer service is practically non existent. lucky I suppose I got a refund what a joke they haven't refunded the delivery charge wouldn't mind if there had been a delivery. so back to customer services I hope to hear in another months time I expect. if this is how they run a company how do they expect to get customers. after reading all the bad reviews you'd at least think the CEO would be asking what the hell is going on. Oh don't be daft hes sitting in his ivory tower collecting his thousands each week without even bothering about customers.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“They simply don't care about you.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“When I first started looking at french doors, there was plenty of companies on Ebay for 5ft Grey French doors and they were £80 cheaper than Wickes, however their estimated delivery date was the the 15th until 29th June which was of no use to me as this was 6 weeks away worst case....so I paid the extra £80 as there was no notification on the wicked website any delays ...it just said in green writing delivery within 14 days. So I placed the order on the 17th May hoping to receive them by the 31st May, when I heard nothing at all I contacted Wickes on 1st June, and was told someone would get back to me...they didn't :( ...so I contacted again a couple of days later to which I was told the manufacturer had informed them that the delivery would be the week commencing the 15th June, now obviously I was not happy about that as it wasn't what I was promised and the fact that I had to keep chasing Wickes instead of them keeping me fully informed. But it was in fact the case and at least I now had a date....on the 15th June I received an email from the Delivery company , asking me to book my delivery date and the nearest date I could get was for the 22nd June....now another week added to the dates!!! Again not happy but now I had a definite date as I had a delivery booked in. Then today I received a "courtesy" call from the manufacturer explaining that the stock was not available for me on the 22nd June but in fact it would now be the following week of the 29th June, but couldn't promise this and couldn't give me date from the week commencing the 29th. I told her I was not happy at all with the situation and that I had seriously been messed about, I explained that I had a workman booked in as I had a booked in delivery...I was told by the manufacturer that I should NOT have done that without confirmation but surely booking in the delivery is confirmation. I was then told by the manufacturer that it is not a confirmed booking if I haven't heard from the courier but I had booked it in with the courier...she was completely contradictory and I am most unhappy with the situation. I then called Wickes, and what another mistake that was...I have screenshot how long I was on the phone trying to sort this situation and in all I was on the phone for 1hour 15 minutes and then to my dismay I find out I have been charged 35pence per minute which works out at £26, and that is only todays phone call, this shouldn't happen to good honest genuine customers...I have had to do all the chasing not once have Wickes contacted e with an update and so I can only assume that I have paid in excess of £50 in phone calls....£80 extra on top of the french doors, on top of all this I had to pay the workman as he has lost a days wages Then I had a message from a manager acknowledging my complaint and said he worked on behalf of the CEO David Wood and he was undertaking my complaint but that was 5 days ago and not heard anything since which tbh I feel I have been more than patient but I have literally come to the end of my patience”

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Posted 4 years ago

Wickes is rated 1.5 based on 1,702 reviews