On June 14, 2013 the members ordered three doors from Door Masters of Texas, a mahogany front door, and two fiberglass back doors. I personally visited their residence and measured for the doors. As usual, we require a “stain check” on all of the fine fiberglass doors we sell to insure our customer gets the color they desire. We have our customers return to our facility when their fiberglass doors have been stained with one coat of their color, so they can inspect the color and determine if additional stain coats are needed. We take this extra step because you can always add more stain to darken the color, but the reverse is not true. They came in for their “stain check” in the afternoon, on or about August 13, 2013. Our shop foreman, showed them their fiberglass doors. After looking at her doors for a while, she said “the stain needs to be darker.” Our shop foreman then applied an additional coat of stain to the upper corner one of the doors, in about a 6” x 6” square. He then asked her for her opinion in front of our senior sales representative, our shop foreman, and her husband. She said “that’s better, that’s the color I want.” Our shop foreman immediately began to apply the second coat of stain to her doors as she requested. As she was leaving our showroom, I stopped her and asked her if she was sure about adding an additional stain coat to her doors. She said “they aren’t dark enough.” I cautioned her that her doors were on the doors carts we use for staining, and the lighting in our shop is different from the lighting in her kitchen. I also told her I color keyed her doors myself, and that I have had over 25 years at painting and color keying. She said, “they need more stain”. With that comment, I dropped the subject and said we would do as she requested. Our senior sales representative, myself, and the member were present at this conversation. On August 21, our lead installer installed all three doors on their home. After our installer had completed the fiberglass doors, our installer heard her say to her husband, “the fiberglass doors are too dark”. He then turned to our installer and the said, “this isn’t your fault, she told you to make the doors darker.” Our installer told me what he said to him when he returned from their home. Later that afternoon, she called our office, and told our senior sales representative she felt the doors we too dark. Our sales representative asked her if the doors had already been installed, and she said “yes”. Our sales representative told her, “If you would have looked at the doors before they were installed it would have been possible to restain her fiberglass doors back to the original color at our shop, but after the new jamb was installed and the hinges cut on her new doors, the only thing we can do now is to refer someone to you to restain them at your home, because we have no way of securing your home. She said she understood and would talk to us tomorrow when she came in to pay her bill. Her husband signed all three work orders for their doors as ‘Received and / or installed in good condition’ The members came in to our office on August 22, 2013 to pay the balance left on their bill. I arrived at the office just as they entered the showroom. Our senior sales representative, myself, and the members were all present at this meeting. As she was paying her bill, she said her front door was perfect, but she felt the fiberglass doors were too dark, and as such, asked me to give her an extra allowance on the doors. I reminded her of our conversation on the day she came in for her stain check. I explained we had stained her doors “correctly” to our eyes, but that at her direction, we applied a second coat of stain to her doors, which darkened them. I also explained to her the easiest way to correct the problem after the doors were installed, is to refer her to a refinisher who could come to her home and restain the doors to the original stain color we provided for her in the first place. I also told her if we needed to, we could install temporary doors on her home to secure it, and retrieve her doors so they could be refinished in our shop. I told her “this was not our fault, we followed your instructions to the letter.” and she agreed. I also told her the easiest was to solve her problem now is for us to refer a reliable refinisher to her to set up an appointment to refinish the doors at her home. She agreed, and paid the final portion of her bill in full. On August 23, 2013 the refinisher we referred her to arrived at their home and began to strip her first fiberglass door. She told the refinisher the color she wanted and also said she had made a mistake when she told us to add more stain to the doors in the first place. The refinisher worked all day on the first door stripping and restaining. He told her he would return the next day to finish on their second door. Later that evening, she called the refinisher and told him to not come back to finish the other door, and that she was going to make Door Masters removed her doors and restain them again. She paid the refinisher for his work on the one door he refinished on the following day.