D Maness Furniture Restoration

These guys claim to be doing restoration work for 30 years. They came by to look at my used conference table to restore. Typical sales jargon like this is in bad shape, has to be stripped, etc. Table was in three pieces and held together with brackets. I told them it was screwed down to the bases, so what does one guy do? He tries to lift one end of the conference table breaking the bracket and popping out the screws holding that base. I couldn’t believe it — I asked why did you do that? He said he wanted to see how heavy it was. I would have unscrewed the brackets and screws to the base to show him, but he didn’t even ask. The worst part: they quoted me $ 2500 to strip it, stain and refinish. Not only are these guys stupid, but are gouging people with their prices. I estimated it would take about 5 hours to strip, sand and refinish the table. According to their prices, that’s about $ 500 an hour. Don’t even bother calling them unless you want someone to come in and break your furniture and quote you some ridiculous price for restoration.