As a public house and provider of services to the public, The Curlew takes the hygiene of their washrooms (toilets) very serious and so when PHS one of the largest washroom providers contacted us, i was pleased to take up a years contract with them, as i only ever take out yearly contracts on any service. The contract has been totally dis honoured as far as i am concerned. The contract was for :- 12 months service to be paid monthly. 12 monthly visits to service the wash rooms, IE sprays, hand wash, urinal blue flush, sanitary bins emptied and the hire of the dryers etc.For this i would have peace of mind and lovely fresh toilets, that all would want to visit.WELL ! All the fee was taken straight from my account .In 10 months i have had 4 visits from the company. In the first 3 months i kept phoning the office at Wickford in Essex, with no joy. Just got Phoebed off, they would be with me soon etc. Got told in so many words by the service girl when she did turn up it was not her job, not her area. I finally am at breaking point so i e-mailed the sales rep to be told, go away i'm on maternity leave.By this time i've had my no service contract for six months and no sign of the service i have paid up front for. Now i'm thinking need to contact the head office in "CAERPHILLY", only got apology and passed back to Wickford office manager. This is a total miss sale of contract and i have since been onto the head office yet again, telling them how i feel and how i want a full refund on the use less contract.! My bank have been told not to release any more cash to them, as they have already had a years up front. My message to all. :- is DON ' T use this company, there are much better companies out there that would welcome the chance to work for you and keep their employees in work in this time of recession.
Chrissie Coomer . Landlady the" CURLEW" . BY the by thank god i have a fantastic cleaner whom does a brilliant job here to combat and compensate for the shoddy washroom company !
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
We had a similar issue with washroom care - fired them. Then took on their PHS Greenleaf division to provide hanging flower baskets. BIG mistake! Appalling service, poor quality flowers, late changeovers, no apologies from PHS staff. Fired them. This seems to be a company out of control - poor employee relations, poor customer service. Decided to use local provider instead of this monster company with 5000 employees!
I blame Mike Laney
My sales team are inundated with calls from frustrated clients trying to exit a contract with a large washroom company. We cannot fathom as to why such large corporate businesses are unable to carry out a simple service such as servicing your washrooms.
Bully boy tactics, lacklustre sales people and poor service operatives seem to be the norm and very much accepted by management.
My advice is to vote with your feet and try out the smaller companies such as ours, they will respect you and ensure you get the best service possible, WHY, because they need your business and won't take you for granted.
As a Phs driver I regret to inform you that our hands and tied by the powers at be and all though we try our best to keep the customers happy and most driver have a good repor with there customers a lot of the time this is simply not possible due to overloading of work and impossible target. My advise is use an other contractor as Phs are only getting worse
Driver for Phs
Totally agree with the comment of the above service driver.. We are a local washroom service company who takes customer service very seriously and always put our customers first. If you are looking at changing from the big nationals we'd be happy to help in any way we can.
A company that relishes poor service and delights in over-charging customers. Sales people are encouraged to treat customers as fools. Depot staff are rude but the drivers and service personnel are generally polite and hard-working (they cut corners due to time constraints.)
Many of the products are inferior to others available.
The biggest complaint is the vice-like grip of the contracts which the customers sign. The customer will be charged 75% of the remaining time (often 5 years) and are forced to pay.
After almost 10 years with PHS we found out recently that they had completely failed to deliver on their own contracted service agreements on over 80% of our sites. They are now picking elements of services which they refuse to cancel, despite us cancelling our whole account with them. They are threatening legal action, as many of the posts say 75% of the contract costs. Being passed from pillar to post. The Senior member of staff (General Manager) now going back on what has been discussed/agreed with us clearly trying to get themselves out of a situation. Smacks of bullying, desperate tactics from a large multi national against smaller companies. Abysmal customer care which completely goes against their own customer charter. Extremely sad that they cannot hold up their hands to their catalogue of errors but instead feel the need to threaten, bully and destroy other businesses who are just trying to run their business professionally and efficiently. SAD BUNCH OF PEOPLE !
PHS are awful. Used them for sanitary requirements in our business and they were awful.
Service was terrible in terms of both quality and price !
Then when you try to leave them they screw you and claim that you are still in contract with them because of a line of text buried in the TS and Cs.
Basically they abuse their customers on every level !
NEVER USE PHS FOR ANYTHING EVER - YOU WILL REGRET IT !
STOP USING THEIR SERVICES AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN THEY ARE BASICALLY AN AWFUL COMPANY THAT WILL ALWAYS TRY AND SCREW YOU!
Regards MPT Ltd
Customer service or is it lack of service. They don't return calls ignore emails and bury there head in the sand. I would never recommend this company to anybody as they just pretend you are not there.
Despicable service. Non collection of sanitary bins for over two months, we had to call repeatedly to try and get them to come. Lie on their service records saying they had been when the office not even open. Cancelled contract then charged for cancellation, now threatened with County Court Judgement for none payment. Only with them because they acquired the company we were originally with. Bullying, threatneing letters and threats. No=one should use this company they are abhorrent