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Homebase Reviews

1.9 Rating 957 Reviews
21 %
of reviewers recommend Homebase
1.9
Based on 957 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 12%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 58%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Live Chat, Email, Telephone
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I will never buy Homebase paint again. I bought a 750ml tin of Silver Cloud satin finish wood and metal paint which either smears lightly on the surface being painted or runs like Usain Bolt. The units being painted were lightly sanded to key, and cleaned with sugar soap, before having Dulux professional brilliant white undercoat applied. All was well at this point, but I soon regretted using a brilliant white undercoat and an off-white top coat, especially when the paint reticulated showing craters and brush marks. This can happen according to the can, and you must apply further light coats. I have repainted my kitchen 4 times now and it has a distressed look that I didn't want. I waited 4 hours between recoats. A suggestion online for the poor coverage and cratering is contamination.
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Posted 5 years ago
I am disgusted with the service of this company, I ordered garden furniture on June 16th I was promised delivery within 14 but allowing for the situation I allowed longer, I was told it was lost in transit another be on the way within 7 days, nothing arrived and assured I would receive it in the next few days. Nothing, looking online discovered they have been reduced complained again only to be told items were now out of stock and things do go wrong money to be refunded within next 7 days. Here's hoping
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Posted 5 years ago
Such a let down really bad customer service wouldn’t ever bother ordering on line they just don’t care about letting people down terrible company you think home base use to be top notch not any more how ever temping a deal maybe don’t waste your time no stars would be more appropriate big big big waste of time!
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Posted 5 years ago
Would give them zero stars if I could. Ordered a garden table and 6 chairs. They delivered the table and 5 chairs. Their customer service was extremely unhelpful and it felt deliberately awkward. Once they agreed that I had a none complete order, their suggestion was to return the table and 5 chairs, and they would replace it with a table and 6 chairs. It appears they can’t or won’t send a missing item by itself. Eventually they offered money for the chair that is missing. However they wouldn’t tell me if I could buy a single chair from them, or how much they individually cost. This has taken months to eventually have a resolution that I’m not happy with. Homebase- I won’t be buying from you again, and your customer service is appalling.
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Posted 5 years ago
Ordered a 4 seater dining set in early June and experienced delay in recieving it, which I was happy to overlook due to COVID-19. However, when recieving I was first asked by the courier if I was returning an item - I was not. And then asked if I recieving 2 x dining sets - I was not. The item that was delivered looks like somebody elses return - metal chair legs are bent and faulty and metal screws were in an opened plastic bag tied with red ribbon. RETURNS ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT Email correspondence is slow and often does not acknowledge the issue. After phoning to arrange collection, delivery company (DX) did not get in touch still 7 days later. Phoned 3 more times to query when collection would be and still waiting (23.07.20) for contact from DX. Refund will not be issued until Homebase have received item and I am being advised that I cannot return to the store as it was an online purchase.
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Posted 5 years ago
A good company, but I could never be sure if they stocked what I needed when I called. Their staff were helpful, if they were to be found!
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Posted 5 years ago
A good company, but I could never be sure if they stocked what I needed when I called.
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Posted 5 years ago
I would like to commend Sarah from the Telford store because she went above and beyond normal customer service when she sorted out the mess that the Wolverhampton store made of mixing my Dulux Grey steel 4 paint. As for the Wolverhampton store, absolute shambles, didn’t even get an apology for mixing my 5 Ltrs of paint wrong, they messed up the code and obviously the colour! I’m in the middle of a £25k kitchen refurb and the decorators had painted two walls in this wrong colour. Went to my local Telford store, spoke to Sarah (who had previously organised the mixing at Wolverhampton because Telford didn’t have the base paint). She was brilliant, she spoke to Wolverhampton Homebase, arranged for me to exchange the wrong paint for the right base paint, so I drove to Wolverhampton to collect it, then back to Telford for the correct mixing by Klaudia, who had volunteered to stay late that evening to make sure that I had the right paint ready for the next morning. Thank you Sarah and Klaudia, exceptional service. As for Wolverhampton, I never even got an apology for all the inconvenience so I will never go there again.
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Posted 5 years ago
I would like to tell everyone about my amazing experience about buying in store from Homebase Maidenhead. Berkshire. What a total contrast to the Bracknell store. You wouldn’t think you were in the shops of the same company. Bracknell store has a couple of really good and helpful people. But if you’re unlucky enough to get most any one of the other staff, then forget: Willing to please. A smile Helpfulness Customer comes first. What a disgraceful and pitiful place that is to shop. 8 miles down the road at Homebase’s Maidenhead store, you’re blown away with kindness and helpfulness. At one point in my purchase I had 3 people all trying to help me. So I cannot thank you guys enough. You made my time in your store, pleasant, happy, reassuring. You helped me every step of the way, in fact you went ‘out’ of your way. So thanks to all who served me. I want to come back to your store rather than Bracknell even though you’re another few miles away! Well done, keep it up. And know customers always prosper when staff are warm and friendly, customers also want to return. Bracknell, start putting customers before yourselves, we don’t need to see you with miserable faces and couldn’t care less attitudes.
Homebase 5 star review on 20th July 2020
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Posted 5 years ago
-100 stars -100 stars! Please please please guys, don’t EVER buy a kitchen from these incompetent asshats. You will seriously regret it!!!! I should make it clear that this all started long before the Covid crisis. 8 months down the line still haven’t got a complete kitchen (they designed it wrong) and they are refusing to give us our remaining items they have kept delivering smashed (over 6 times) or compensation (we have been assured of several times.) They have taken all our money and not given us the final product!!!!!!!!!! Some may call that theft. They have left us without basic facilities during lockdown and have no clue about customer care or how to run a business. The shop manager is a pathological liar, the area managers are unhelpful (but also embarrassed of the company and their behaviour), the escalations team are useless and the CEO + his team are rubbish. See you in court you bunch of absolute crooks.
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Posted 5 years ago
-100 stars! Please please please guys, don’t EVER buy a kitchen from these incompetent asshats. You will seriously regret it!!!! I should make it clear that this all started long before the Covid crisis. 8 months down the line still haven’t got a complete kitchen (they designed it wrong) and they are refusing to give us our remaining items they have kept delivering smashed (over 6 times) or compensation (we have been assured of several times.) They have taken all our money and not given us the final product!!!!!!!!!! Some may call that theft. They have left us without basic facilities during lockdown and have no clue about customer care or how to run a business. The shop manager is a pathological liar, the area managers are unhelpful (but also embarrassed of the company and their behaviour), the escalations team are useless and the CEO + his team are rubbish. See you in court you bunch of absolute crooks.
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Posted 5 years ago
We ordered a product worth £250 on 8th April, it has never been delivered and now we cannot get a refund, its really theft dressed up as another name. We now cannot successfully contact them, we have had promises of resolution to our issue within 48 hours but of course it never happens. Just steer clear.
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Posted 5 years ago
We ordered a product worth £250 on 8th April, it has never been delivered and now we cannot get a refund, its really theft dressed up as another name. We now cannot successfully contact them, we have had promises of resolution to our issue within 48 hours but of course it never happens. Just steer clear.
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Posted 5 years ago
It is a good company , but you are never sure whether what is required will be in store.
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Posted 5 years ago
Absolutely disgusted with Homebase on all aspects pity you can’t give a no star review because it’s definitely more apt than one. Not a massive order but still waiting on (one item out of 5) 3 months after order was placed. Email after email of poor apologies and it’s on it’s way be with you in 7 days yet still no item has arrived. Everyone has expected a delay in service due to the Covid situation but this is totally unacceptable from such a big company.
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Posted 5 years ago
Appalling customer service. I placed an order with homebase and heard nothing after two weeks. I chased this and was advised by the delivery company that they were sat damaged in the warehouse.Table and chairs later arrived in their damaged form. After mu3cu chasing a replacement was sent out - only half the order arrived and yet again was damaged. Eventually after much chasing and sitting on hold for hours I asked for another replacement table to arrive. When this arrived I explained how upset I was by the terrible customer sevice and asked for compensation for the damaged goods rather than sending them back. I was promised compensation and a call from a manager with 48 hours. This never happened. After a few back and forth emails with a member of the customer sevice team they have now decided to ignore my emails entirely. Truly dreadful company and still an unresolved issue weeks later.
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Posted 5 years ago
THE PITS! Do yourself a favour - buy somewhere else. To be able to leave a review I've given one star, but none deserved! I took delivery of a Hacienda Outdoor Patio Heater on Friday 15 May. It worked for one minute and then fizzled out. I used the customer contact form the same evening and emailed them about the problem. An automatic reply said they'd get back to me but there would be delays due to the Coronavirus outbreak. I accepted this but when over two weeks passed without any response I followed with phone calls to two numbers on the Homebase website. One number was unobtainable and the other had a message saying that their mailbox was full. Things went downhill from there. I have had one of my emails acknowledged and was asked what day would be suitable for the faulty goods to be collected. I told them that any day would suit and heard no more. Another email was met with an apologetic response that said that Homebase was "reaching out to me". I don't know what that means but it certainly doesn't mean that they were going to do anything for me as I heard no more. Yet another email from me received a response saying that they were contacting the manufacturer to get him to arrange for the collection of the goods. I pointed out that my contract was with Homebase and not Hacienda. (In any event I haven't heard from Hacienda either!) Finally I got through on the telephone to Customer Service and was promised by Mangesh on 30 June that my case would be escalated and I would hear back from the "escalation team" within 48 hours. I'm still waiting! On 6 July I phoned yet again and, after the usual half hour wait, I got through and spoke with Pratik who told me that he couldn't do any more as my case had already been escalated. He did speak to someone and promised me that I would definitely hear back within 48 hours. That 48 hours is now up and I've heard nothing. I will persevere and publicise how bad Homebase is in as many places as possible and I won't miss.
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Posted 5 years ago
If I could give zero stars, or indeed negative one star, I would. Ordered a table and two chairs in mid May. Chairs arrived late May. As at 6 July, still no table - nor have Homebase kept a single one of the many promises made about calling back with updates, arranging delivery for specific dates etc. During my last call (of about 8) to their Customer "Services", I was chastised for being displeased by service by a representative who blamed the issues on the Covid 19 pandemic - why that prevents Homebase keeping promises to call back with updates is evidently less clear to me than it was to the company representative. Really poor service, not a single promise kept to date, will never use them again. Order at your peril! Wish I had read the reviews before I placed an order...
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Posted 5 years ago
Ordered a Lawnmower online a week ago. It said delivery within three days. Rang them on Wednesday and was assured it would be here by 8pm Thursday. It is Friday rang again and got told it will be here within 48 hours (discounting the weekend). The service is abysmal. They blame the couriers yet I have received items ordered after last Friday on eBay and amazon from Europe. This item is coming from England. Then they blame us living in a remote area, Aberdeen City. How come Sainsburys food shops are getting food in?
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Posted 5 years ago
items arrived damage, I've raised it to homebase 5 times and they never respond, a month after my delivery I still have the damaged items sitting in my garage with no response from homebase
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Posted 5 years ago
Homebase is rated 1.9 based on 957 reviews