How did it go? Hassled. Still hassling, actually. Originally quite pleased with salesman Josh (recently laid off). Helpful in choosing prefinished v finish in place, etc. We had our choice narrowed down to 2 floors, a Bruce and Armstrong (CarpetOne) product. Their pricing on the Bruce was not as good as other dealers/online. However,the Armstrong (CarpetOne) was touted as a and quot;superiorand quot; newer product and due to and quot;introand quot; pricing, not that much more $. So, after some negotiating, we decided to go with the Armstrong from McCall's. So imagine our surprise when a truckload of Bruce product arrived at our house on delivery day. After getting second opinions, talking to other vendors, online research, etc., we are convinced that they are likely the same floor, sold under different names and price points. Bruce and Armstrong are apparently the same company. We may be wrong, but I swear, we did our homework. There is 1 digit different in the product #. Maybe that digit indicates a superior finish (as I'm told by CarpetOne) or that it's the box that gets shipped to CarpetOne. But I'm told by a Bruce rep that they are compatible floors, and that there is no major difference in finish. SO, we agreed that if McCall's would match a competitor's price on the Bruce product that we would go ahead and install that floor. Again, not so hard to negotiate with, and pleased with the compromise, though it was more of a hassle than we wanted. Moving on to installation, less than thrilled but OK with the crew (not clean-cut, but that's not always a big deal to me), until we found out from our other contractor (who had done all the subfloor work) that they weren't nailing down the rows of floor next to the walls (because they couldn't use the nail gun and and quot;they won't be walking this close to the wall anywayand quot; was the reply when he asked them about it.) Maybe we wouldn't have noticed initially, but I'm guessing when we went to move furniture against those walls, we would have noticed the creakiness. Apparently it didn't happen all over the house (again, we're talking nearly 2000 sq ft of hardwood, and they'd been called on it early in the game) and was happening mostly while the supervisor was away. But of course, after that, we probably looked a lot closer than we ordinarily would have...and found numerous squeaks and ding marks apparently from the nail gun . On the first return trip with the installation mgr, they were trying to cover them up as fast as they could (sloppily...putty streaks and dull marks). A week (and 2 unreturned phone calls) later, we're still trying to get it all resolved without having to call Mr. McCall himself. Just a little shadier and more hassled than I would like. We haven't paid in full yet, but to me, $18,000+ is a lot of money to pay for questionable work. We'll see how it goes from here, the van says we'll be happy or it'll be replaced for free, but I wish we'd hired someone else and not had the problems. <br /> UPDATE 6.7.10 <br /> STILL I am not moved back into my house because the floor issues are not settled. ~May 10 (after having to re-order some replacement wood) our installers made another return trip to fix the creaky places, squeaky boards, dings, etc. It was implied that alot of the damage was someone else's fault (ours or the other crews). No sense of responsibility AT ALL. We have lots of little crescent shaped dings that seem to be from the nail gun. Some had been puttied, but not very well, so I brought that up, and was told I just needed to clean the floor. There is some other incidental scratching etc. We did have other work going on, and I do not hold them accountable for that. (However, I am wishing that my initial request that we just install the part we had to and wait on the rest, had been considered.) So, on this return trip, they were here for maybe an hour and 1/2 (including smoke breaks). The manager had told my husband that he would come with them to oversee, but did not. When I asked about the other major areas to be fixed, they pretty much acted dumb. They and quot;fixedand quot; (cut out and replaced with glue) one squeaky place in the hall way, which had initially been top-nailed 11 times when we brought up the squeak. It started squeaking again almost immediately and necessitated yet another repair. When they started to cut out another board , they hit a nail, damaging the saw blade, and didn't have a replacement blade on hand (which seems ill-prepared to me if you use a saw on a regular basis). So they were done for the day at 3 pm. At this point, we decided that they would not return until everyone else was finished and we could get a good and quot;fulland quot; picture. I also felt it was unfair for them to have to work alongside the guy that and quot;called them outand quot; on their carelessness, because I felt tension. Nothing overt, but I just didn't want to deal with it. Thurs/Fri before Mem Day, my husband called the installation manager to invite him out again, he came the following Tuesday for a look around. He seemed in agreement that some better work needed to be done. A different (and more meticulous) (and hopefully not already mad at us) crew member was sent to work on Thurs, and my husband seemed pleased with his work. He came back Friday, but still didn't get finished and said he would be back yesterday. We heard nothing. My husband stayed til 11:30 waiting for someone to show up. The large area that was torn up/replaced Friday is unbelievably squeaky/creaky and I have no idea if he's finished with it or not. I am DISGUSTED that I have paid this much money for this much crap. I do however like the floor, just not pleased at all with the installation. When I called Mr. McCall this morning, it just so happened that they were getting ready to come here (again, no communication to us regarding this) and apparently they didn't think they were and quot;confirmedand quot; for yesterday (not sure which part of and quot;I'll make arrangements for someone to be hereand quot; is unclear...) Maybe we'll be done today, but I absolutely cannot recommend dealing with this company, even though my neighbor recommended them to me. <br /> UPDATE 2 July 7.2011 <br /> The day of the last update, we did get some issues resolved, but it seems that 1 squeak is fixed and another pops up. On that day, when TIm indicated he was ready to go (finished...), I suggested we walk the repaired area. I put down 7 pieces of tape marking squeaks in the ~ 4x6 ft area that had been repaired. He worked on them before leaving and was appreciative that I'd pointed them out. Since that day, we've marked about 4 more spots. When Mr. McCall called requesting the rest of his payment, I asked if he'd be willing to make any concessions on the price considering all our inconveniences. I also expressed my concern (with the squeaks/history) that the floor may not have been installed according to the mfgr recommendations. Today he came out with Tim and a handy little magnet trick that shows where the nails are. What a relief that in the sample he did (1 room), they do seem to be mostly properly spaced. They found one area that seemed to be every 12and quot; or so (mfgr recommendation is every 6-8 inches). After our issues with NO nails and squeaks, I honestly didn't expect to find it was done correctly. We were told that in a job this large, this is really not too many squeaks (and quot;a very small percentageand quot;) and that no floor is level. (True, but we did spend about $10,000 on sublfoor work and walked on it for weeks marvelling at how solid it felt). This is the thing: Mr. McCall seems to have a knack for turning things around on you. (and quot;So you're fussing at me for making return trips to make this rightand quot;) No, Mr. McCall, I'm fussing that getting this installation right has taken over 2 months (granted, that includes self-imposed downtime-me not wanting multiple crews in my house, working around our schedules, and vacation), that your crews have made probably 5 return trips and used nearly 2 FULL boxes