Cosy Casa - DO NOT HIRE THEM!!
DO NOT engage with this company. They installed our gas boiler, central heating, filtration system, and kitchen. The following isn’t the entire list of atrocious work they did but enough for you to be given a realistic picture of this company’s level of poor workmanship, false information, and deceit to cover up their mistakes, resulting in additional personal cost and misery to us.
1. Baxi Gas Boiler :
* This malfunctioned after a month. Baxi called in 3 times to fixed different problems. Final visit was replacement heat exchanger with boiler/central heating system flushed out - Cosy Casa failed to do this before boiler was made operational by Baxi.
* CosyCasa failed to tell us our responsibility to prepare site for 1000 ltr. gas tank, dig 22m trench for pipework to connect tank to boiler and later for 28m trench to gas cooker. CC said gas tank was free but failed to say it was only free if we signed 10-year contract with CEPSA. Had to pay CEPSA directly for each pipework install/connection as CosyCasa said not included in their quotes. It was in first handwritten quote for central heating. CosyCasa then relented to include gas cooker connection into Kitchen quote. We still had to pay CEPSA ourselves but would later take this off our final payment to them.
Cost to fix all the above including CEPSA Gas connection - €837.33
2. Central Heating :
* Radiator fell off the wall leaving huge holes underneath window
* Radiator overlapping a door frame
* Air bleed values popping off radiators and leaking water - Cost to fix €150
* Damage to en suite tiles when fitting towel heater - damage still exists
* Some rubber covers missing on pipework to hide joins into the wall - Fitted but because these were not fitted before radiators added, were cut to fit. Looks totally unprofessional
3. Filtration systems x 2 :
Both main system to the house (Hidro Water) and drinking water system under the kitchen sink (Solberland) installed incorrectly.
* Hidro Water - Costing 2000 Euros! Fitted by owner's son continually leaked for 7 months after every weekly flush cycle!!!! Feeble excuses given, saying too much salt added into the system. Irrelevant excuse.
CC would not fix, so went directly to manufacturer who engaged local Engineer. Said pipework for water feed into unit and filtered water out were fitted THE WRONG WAY AROUND!!! He also said this most likely attributed to 3 of 5 main filters being fully used up in less than 3 months!!!! The normal duration before replacement approx 9 months based on household of 2 adults.
Cost to repair €387.24, included 3 new filters.
* Solberland- fitted by CC owner under kitchen sink and left leaking and refused to come back to fix. Could not be used.
Cost to fix: 0.00. Fixed by a friend.
4. Kitchen :
An ultimate disaster. It took nearly 3 months before it was near completion and then CosyCasa refused to return to fit the last of cupboard shelves + integral bin. Made us collect these from their Benjiofar Showroom and fit ourselves.
* Cupboards shoddily built, cupboard doors not aligned
* Glass cabinet not evently fitted and doors won’t shut flush
* Fitted granite top slopping downwards at sink area - water runs off worktop - long gaps between staged fittings so granite worktop wasn’t secured adequately until oven unit and dishwasher were later fitted but the worktop angle wasn’t rectified and water still runs off the end. No fault of the Granit company who cut and initially fitted the worktop. CosyCasa just didn’t finish it off properly.
* Cosy Casa then refused to give us any of invoices of several of the items they bought for the kitchen, including both water filtrations systems. Hence we have no warranties for these.
Apologies for the long post but you need to know the agony we went through so you don’t have to.