Written on: 04/04/2011
This company is the worst ever. They have no consideration for their customers and never turn up for the work they are paid for and my mother is still waiting for them to arrive to complete the job. This is a special needs bathroom that needs to have some priority and the salesperson promised that they would stay on the job until completion,They do not care about upsetting their customers and the distress they cause and wish we have had nothing to do with them but unfortunately they have out money,...
Read full reviewWritten on: 11/05/2009
Excelent Desiner from Dolphin Bathrooms that showed me the final look by computer (CAD). Looked after and kept infomed of progres from design, surveyor, delivery, project manager and fitters. I think we live in a country of complaints. When everything is good and to the high standard, no one writes or gives their opinion. Well here is mine. I was so pleased with Dolphin Bathrooms that I had my second bathroom done by them. I want my bathroom done by a company that gives the guarantees and is well...
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/04/2009
We decided to go for the half price sale offer on the Dolphin Special Care Bathrooms. Designer came round and spent a good while with all the usual patter etc. Came up with a design that was OK and would be a bit of a change from our bathroom as was. We had a large bath and bit of wasted space, as we use the shower in it more than anything, but still wanted to have a bath option. He moved the sink into the corner at the end of the bath and everthing seemed fine, then asks for the desposit. Thought...
Read full reviewWritten on: 01/04/2009
Dolphin Bathrooms sounded so good, the salesman was excellent and the surveyor was very thorough. Then it all went wrong - I am so disappointed with their service, our bathroom which was ghastly before is not much better now. We have had to chase them up all the way - they have now looked at it and said it should all be done again. What a joke - the person who did it the first time is coming back to do it again so why will it be any better the second time around. I despair, they havent got a clue...
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/04/2009
I agree with this review because...have recently had a bthroom fitted
Written on: 30/06/2008
My mother is in her eighties and needed a walk in shower. After reading all the bad reviews on here I dreaded the outcome but how wrong I was. The adviser was great, yes Dolphin are expensive. However the parts arrived on time as notified to us by Dolphin Customer Service, the installation date was on time, again as notified by Dolphin Customer Service and the fitter could not have been better. Dolphin did not put a foot wrong very impressive - well done Dolphin. ...
Read full reviewWritten on: 11/06/2008
My advice is: don't even go there! We called a designer out (an evening appointment), for a start he was half an hour late. He said he would take measurements and he would go away and do the estimate and design as it was getting late. We said it was OK. Anyway on leaving he promised to get back about the quote. Two weeks on and still no quote from them so I decided to chase up. They said they'll get in touch with the designer to find out why. Few days later and still no quote! I contacted them again...
Read full reviewWritten on: 11/01/2007
Spent £7000 on a bathroom that took almost a year to fit, and had to fight for a £600 discount for over half a year. Just received the cheque from Dolphin Bathrooms today. Useless customer service. Useless fitters....
Read full reviewWritten on: 25/05/2006
I am not impressed with Dolphin Bathrooms. I found respect and customer care to be very poor. I didn't get as far as having the bathroom planning and installation stage, as the Salesman refused to attend the initial appointment because my husband would not be present!
My husband had left the planning and organising of the bathroom to me, as I am the one with the disability. The salesman treated me as If I was some 'little woman' who couldn't make any decisions without her husband's nod...
Written on: 15/11/2005
My parents, in their eighties, urgently needed a new invalid-safe bathroom to be installed so that my father could be discharged from hospital, and go home.
I approached people that I took to be experts - Dolphin Special Care - to do the job.
Dolphin Special Care sited a"fused spur" to my parents' spa-bath in a place which disquieted me.
Dolphin told me that the spur should be "switched off when the bath is not in use"; though how they imagined that my mother might have done...
Written on: 10/05/2011
We had a dolphin bathroom fitted last year and were very happy with the service. Looks great. There were a few complications along the way but i think that is quite common with getting a bathroom fitted....
Read full reviewWritten on: 06/05/2011
DOLPHIN BATHROOMS The only efficient part of the deal was the alacrity of taking the deposit. Delivery was on time, albeit incomplete and wrong parts it transpired. The installation team consisted of one man. Customer complaints procedure efficiency is nonexistant. Speed of fitting is snails pace and the quality is that of a profficient DIY person. Our fitter had been pulled off one job to stsrt ours as the bath delivered to that job was wrong, he decided to take a wek off toeards the end of the...
Read full reviewWritten on: 26/04/2011
"Dolphin take care of absolutely everything" - this quote could not be further from the truth unfortunately. The worst customer service I have ever come across. Red tape, bureaucracy, indecision, lies. Project Coordinators who have no product knowledge or any powers to make a decision during the project. The list is endless. Would NEVER recommend them or their sister companies. Fitter/Plumber - absolutely fantastic who saved my sanity. ...
Read full reviewWritten on: 25/04/2011
We are mid-fit for a Dolphin bathroom ordered in early February. We made plain that we had a tight schedule to fit,and were messed about by the rescheduling of the job. The quality of the workmanship is appalling and not to the specification, and the fitter is rarely here before 10 in the morning and leaves before 4. Despite numerous calls to customer care we are having no support - I fear that this will be a horribly costly mistake on our part and wish that we could cancel the contract now and...
Read full reviewWritten on: 06/04/2011
I have had two bathrooms re-done - one wet room and one standard bathroom suite, the full monty! After the initial sales visit and price we had a further 'surveyor' who actually went round and said things couldn't be done a certain way etc etc - really just to make things easier for the fitters and using substitute cheaper fittings. We went along as I trusted them to do a good job and the cost was high (£25,000) - I thought paying a lot would mean a good job, how wrong was that! My main...
Read full reviewWritten on: 06/04/2011
DO NOT USE DOLPHIN BATHROOMS!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had to mark this as a 1 as it will not accept zero out of 5, but my true rating would be a big fat ZERO!! We decided to use Dolphin for the "stress free", "we'll take care of everything" and "quality of products" service they were offering. The price was £3 - 4 thousand more than we were planning on paying but thought it would be worth it to take away all the hassle. How foolish we were, I wish I had read these reviews first. Our bathroom...
Read full reviewWritten on: 22/03/2011
Our delivery arrived too early which meant we had to store everything including the bath in our spare room over Christmas. When we were asked if we would accept an earlier delivery date I was told the installation would be on the Monday and that they would call back to reconfirm the arrival time. At 5.30 on the Friday I was still trying to find out what time the fitters would arrive. Needless to say they didn't arrive on the Monday. Installation was confirmed as the week before Christmas and would...
Read full reviewWritten on: 20/03/2011
We ordered our en suite from Dolphin after a salesman went through all options and were told that the installation would commence within four weeks, the only complaint I have had is that the moved the installation twice due to waiting for an installer. Once the installer arrived on the agreed Monday he got stuck in and completed the work in 6 days and made a fabulous job, there was a small problem with the tiles but were quickly sorted. A superb job thanks to Tom the fitter and we would recommend...
Read full reviewWritten on: 08/03/2011
The bathroom hasn't even been installed yet and I'm already stressed. So far I experienced broken delivery promise via Dolphin's transport logistics service provider, Mark II - when it eventually turned up not all items were delivered. Dolphin's customer service is inept and so far have failed to sort out a query going back almost 2 months now (both written and verbal contact). The installer, who did turn up on time as promised, sat there twiddling thumbs as no goods had been delivered at this point...
Read full reviewWritten on: 01/03/2011
Just had my Dolphin Bathroom finished on time and to spec surprise surprise. Really though I promised the designer I would come on here and write a review regarding this company-good or bad! Had read a few bad reviews on this site and nearly cancelled my appointment but decided to see what they had to offer instead. The design was spot on and even included a few bits I had never thought of. The price was around what I expected for a fully fitted bathroom, I did come into this with my eyes...
Read full reviewWritten on: 21/02/2011
We got lucky with our fitter Mahendra, he must be the best fitter working for Dolphin. He was very thorough, he cleared up every night and was always smiling. Unfortunately I can't say the same about your administration, and representative. We were mislead over the finance and were given three different start dates. Some of the items weren't delivered on time and it took the fitter longer as he had to do things in a different order....
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/02/2011
A Dolphin Bathrooms sales rep visited us to design a bathroom and quote. I have, without exaggeration, never felt so uncomfortable in my own house in my life. The Dolphin representative was exceptionally pushy and wouldn't give up on the hard sell. When we said we were not prepared to make a decision today, he then got extremely rude and aggressive and insinuated we were time wasters. The experience was utterly horrible. To cap it off, Dolphin Bathrooms quoted £7.5k if we paid immediately...
Read full reviewWritten on: 25/01/2011
Dolphin bathrooms are the same company as Moben kitchens and after 2 years of constant complaining and endless letters after our kitchen was supplied by Moben i decided to pursue legal options. I was advised no-one has taken Moben to court before and won well guess what we did and we won. We had a complete new kitchen and this month i decided to re-do our bathroom and this is absolutely the last company in the world i would recommend. But be consistent in your complaining and seek legal advise...
Read full reviewWritten on: 24/01/2011
Don't ever get anything from this company. We had a bathroom fitted last March. We are still having problems and despite numerous phone calls cannot get any satisfaction. We are now going through the small claims court to claim compensation....
Read full reviewWritten on: 21/01/2011
My partner ordered a bath and it's really good quality and well packaged on delivery, but it was a week late arriving. Good customer servers keep us unformed of the posses of the order. So we hope to be ordering more shortly without any delays this time....
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/01/2011
Is it possible to give zero stars in each category? Has been 8 weeks now waiting for Dolphin to sort out our bathroom and/or reply to our letters of complaint. I feel foolish for not checking out reviews before paying the money. It seems that Dolphin either have no complaints policy or simply are not interested, they do of course have our money and so does it really matter to them that we are so unhappy? I would encourage people to contact The Furniture Ombudsman and take photos of sub-standard...
Read full reviewWritten on: 26/11/2010
The sales agent that came to our home was very aggressive and pushed us very much to sign a contract to secure the price he would offer us on the day (dropping the price from >16000 to 7000). I had no idea about the quality of dolphins bathroom installations and was genuinely interested but wanted to get another offer of yet another bathroom installation company (as would anyone I guess). Nevertheless, I stupidly secured the price with 100 pounds and signed the contract after having asked, how...
Read full reviewWritten on: 12/11/2010
I have recently had a dolphin bathroom fitted and could not fault asny part of the process. We had an extremely friendly designer vist us who understood our needs and created an amazing bathroom for us. We had a phonecall from our project manager who told us our delivery date and time which arrived. We then had very nice fitters who left the bathrrom clean and tidy every night. I would reccommend this company to anybody. Brian - Kent...
Read full reviewWritten on: 05/11/2010
I had a dolphin bathroom fitted last month, the design and program used was amazing, the designer was very helpfull and professional. The quality of the products were far superior to any other I had seen, the fitters were quick worked long hours and the finish was brill....
Read full reviewWritten on: 22/10/2010
As a bathroom fitter i went on a 2 day dolphin fitters course and was told about the terrible sales tactics Dolphin employ, they openly told us that they highly inflate their prices and use the 50% discount and additional phone call back to head office in order to further reduce the cost down another 10% still making an outragous profit whilst using extremley cheap bathroom furniture, they also get 90% of the money up front and then try to find some self employed plumber idiot to fit the bathroom...
Read full reviewWritten on: 20/10/2010
If i could give a non existent to customer services i would. This company act as cowboys despite claiming to be the best. They do not follow up customer concerns or take them seriously. "Project managers" that are supposed to attend the jobs do not and people do not return calls. There seems to be a lot of blame some one else when things go wrong. I am still in dispute with them but am seeking legal advise to see if they breach goods and service acts/ trade descriptions etc...
Read full reviewWritten on: 10/10/2010
We had our bathroom installed the begining of last year and we had issues from the start. Here are some! of the problems we experienced. We where left with no flushing toilet for 5 days, plaster all over our drive way, rubbish on our drive for 4 weeks, sharpe edges on the tile edgeing, pipework exposed (should of been boxed in!), bath sealant has been re-done 4 times and requires doing again, pressure fault with our shower (took 3 visits to resolve), floor is not level, chipped tile, shower screen...
Read full reviewWritten on: 13/10/2010
Terribly sorry to hear that you have outstanding issues. Dolphin takes customer service very seriously and would really like the opportunity to rectify your problems.
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Written on: 29/09/2010
I first saw these reviews for Dolphin Bathrooms after I had placed an order for a new bathroom and wondered whetrher I had made a big mistake as it turns out I had not. I went for Dolphin as although their pricing is high my local plumbers seemed totally uninterested in doing any work. All equipment was delivered when expected, The installation did take an extra couple of days through a small misunderstanding. Overall I was happy with the service, the fitters who came and did the work were...
Read full reviewWritten on: 21/09/2010
I'm afraid that I have to add a huge negative view of Dolphin Bathrooms to the already growing list of negative comments. We had a wetroom installed by sub-contractors of Dolphin and such was the state of the workmanship that the whole thing had to be ripped out and re-done by an excellent Dolphin engineer who was actually spending his time correcting their wrongs. The whole business took over 4 months until we had a fully working bathroom and we still have the odd problem 2 years on. We also...
Read full reviewWritten on: 16/09/2010
Although the installation fitter was pleasant and competant the whole product and service was over sold. Endless delays poor co-ordination and a complete disrespect of customers concerns mean that I would strongly recommend that people seriously consider using a differenr supplier....
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/09/2010
What can we say except never ever go near this joke of a company!! We were promised a "rolls royce bathroom" at "BMW price" and what we now have is a cheap, nasty unfinished bathroom that was not even what we ordered. We phone every day to head office and the call centre staff are very rude and we never get a call back. The promised project manager never appeared and we even had to pay the builder extra to go and buy a radiator that actually fitted. We eventually got a manager to the house to see...
Read full reviewWritten on: 09/09/2010
Would give DOLPHIN Bathroom a NILL rating if permitted - We paid a fortume (over £10k) for a new bathroom. The bathroom took over 8 weeks to complete, we was told that we will have full use of the facilities when the works are being carried out but we have no bath, no shower, no toilet for over until completeion. Customer service team who doesnt have a clue of whats happening, project manager who have never return any calls and have never meet. The bathroom was fitted very poorly and we was...
Read full reviewWritten on: 05/09/2010
I was deeply disappointed with my experience of Dolphin .Bathrooms. We wanted to hand the work over to experienced people who would just get on with it - it was expensive enough. In fact, Dolphin simply subcontract to an installation company, and in my case the workmen lived 50 miles away. No one from Dolphin ever came to check, even at the end. It took over six weeks to refurbish a shower room, and I myself ended up doing the project managing. We were promised a project manager, but I did it, as...
Read full reviewWritten on: 03/09/2010
Do not invite Dolphin Bathrooms into your home. We felt pressured into signing a contract after a 4 and a half hours sales pitch even though we were very uncomfortable about doing so. We cancelled the contract two days later and were informed by email that we would have a refund before a certain date. That date came and went and still no refund. Numerous calls to Head Office and the local branch, hung up on by one customer service guy, office manager Wendy Edwards extremely rude and unhelpful. If...
Read full reviewWritten on: 24/08/2010
Never, ever consider Dolphin for your bathroom. Having failed to turn up for the first appointment in August (and saying if we went with them we would get £250 off any tiling) they failed to turn up a second time and when I rang the only number availble on their web-site was told that "no designer had been allocated " meaning that no-one was likely to show despite the fact I had confirmned the visit yesterday. I say again, never, ever use Dolphin ...
Read full reviewWritten on: 19/08/2010
I have been told by a fitter that the Dolphin Bathroom experience in Scotland is a lot better than in England and I am in Scotland. I booked an appointment with a designer who took me seriously despite my naive, late-20s student demeanour. He saw my dilapidated old suite and thought about saving himself some serious time - instead of starting off with £10k+ as I see other designers do, he said, "It would be about £8k." I was willing to go with them - I knew they were pricey but it was...
Read full reviewWritten on: 20/07/2010
Only just discovered this wonderful site and one thing i have noted that there seems to be more negative reviews than positive but a guess thats just us as a nation. This is only my 2nd review and their both positive (bucking the trend). Anyway i've had two Dolphin bathrooms in two different houses and couldn't praise them more. The most recent which i am still using is about 6months old and looks/works fantastic. I have never dealt with the same people in both jobs i.e. Saleman or fitters,...
Read full reviewWritten on: 14/07/2010
Perhaps a little balance to all the very negative reviews on the site. I agree the sales service was lengthy and the price expensive, even after lengthy and protracted negotiation (incl threats of cancelling the order). However delivery was on time as agreed and workforce turned up on the day they were supposed to, and completed in 8 days (quoted 9). I think, from the reviews we have read, we were very fortunate to get a very good installer. Although contrary to the 'sell' from the salesman - there...
Read full reviewWritten on: 03/07/2010
ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. Sales was good, although long, but that was down to us. Delivery was OK. The it goes downhill. Fitters try it on so if you do use Dolphin, keep on top of the fitters. Project Manager is as much use as toilet paper. [Use them once and then flush them]. Customer service are rude, unhelpful & never call back. 3 months in and we're still not finished. Always double check quntities as they over estimate and charge you for it and you'll have more luck talking to grass then getting a...
Read full reviewWritten on: 28/06/2010
AVOID DOLPHIN. The workmanship is appalling and they cost a fortune. Six months after our installation we not only have an unusable on-suite bathroom but they've managed to overrun the bedroom with rubbish as well. Shower constantly leaks. A string of unsuccessful "fixes" have wasted nearly 3 months. Fawning but ultimately useless customer services who, when they do ring you back, say they can "fit you in" in about 7 weeks time. Fit me in?? You never finished the damned installation in the first...
Read full reviewWritten on: 24/06/2010
GO WITH A LOCAL COMPANY DO NOT USE DOLPHIN. CUSTOMER SERVICE STAFF ARE RUDE AND UNHELPFUL. NO-ONE RINGS YOU BACK. ITEMS TURN UP DAMAGED. We had 3 bathrooms fittted and the end result and design is nice, but the whole process was unpleasant with no project manager and extremly rude and unhelpful staff. If I ever rang customer services I would be on hold for at least 15 minutes each time. We chose Dolpin as the quotes we had from other companies were comparable, and the sales man stayed so long...
Read full reviewWritten on: 10/06/2010
Dolphin - Just say NO! Dolphin Bathrooms have a lovely glossy brochure but without prices, and their showrooms look fine. The design visit is a hard sell and took 5 hours with very few items actually in their offered January sale. Much is promised and the finished concept did look good. It was very expensive and with hindsight we should have gone to the local Ripples for half the cost. We liked the idea of a bespoke bathroom with Project Management, however, the reality is different. The goods...
Read full reviewWritten on: 18/05/2010
STAY AWAY FROM DOLPHIN. We had a hideous experience with Dolphin bathrooms. Our bathroom took 7 weeks to install. Fitters were absolute cowboys and after the 7 weeks were up we then had to have another set of fitters in to try and sort out all the problems. We were without a toilet/bath & shower for 5 1/2 weeks. We paid £14,000 for the privelige and got offered a pathetic £500 compensation. I would never use again, or recomend to anyone. This company is an absolute joke. They take your...
Read full reviewWritten on: 03/05/2010
We had our bathroom fitted by Dolphin in feb 2010 day after the job finnished the plumbing from the hot water tap on the basin came away and flooded the upstairs landing and then soaked though to the kitchen we have made a number of calls to Dolphin head office and our project maneger and still nothing has been done to the damage coused by Dolpin still waiting now May 2010...
Read full reviewWritten on: 29/04/2010
ok just to add a bit of balance here. My Dolphin fitter has just left me with a fantastic bathroom and the standard of work is excellent. Yes Dolphin were very expensive and the hard sell for hours was draining, yes they did tell me that the work would take 7-10 days and the fitter has been here for 18 days but he has done a great job and was a pleasure to have in the house. He also did some extra work for us (putting up lights and mirrors etc) for no extra charge. The admin however is a total nightmare,...
Read full reviewWritten on: 27/04/2010
RUN! DO NOT contact Dolphin Bathrooms and Moben Kitchen....
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