This review would have been five stars, but the installer they hooked me up with WAS HORRIBLE. Mike at Abramo was excellent and I really should not give 4 starts given my experience, but Abramo Pools are good people. They just need to drop Pools By US Plus from the line-up. DO NOT USE Pools By US Plus as your installer. Here is my review of them:
Just a horrible experience working with Al that left a bad taste in my mouth. They clearly do not know their audience and try to take advantage of up-selling in the moment. I am speaking specifically to them trying to sell me bubble wrap for $1,000. They had TWO years to inform me of the benefits of applying cushion to the walls and bottom of the pool. Instead, they try to take advantage of the customer right before the liner goes in. This is obviously by design and I am sure they get ignorant customers that feel the pressure to make a decision and overpay for their employees to stick on bubble wrap in 15 minutes. They began the day by unboxing my pool and telling me what a great pool I had going in. Then Al shows me pictures of a rusting skimmer boxes and tells me the pool I bought is cheap in an attempt to extort $1,000 for bubble wrap. When I tell them this is what the warranty is for, he laughs and says good luck with that. Do they think people that are excited for their new investment want to hear this? Their entire approach was cheesy and nothing that came out of his mouth was genuine. Asking me how much I paid for my pool and my car and asking if he can sit in my car with stone dusted clothes. Telling me that the bubble wrap would keep the heat in my pool. Do they think I was born yesterday? Heat dissipates from the top of the pool, not the sides and bottom. They also made ME run my car for THREE hours to heat up the liner in the backseat. What the f*** was wrong with the two trucks they had in my driveway? They should NEVER expect the customer to do this for you. They wanted to make the liner easier and more pliable to install, then they should find a way to heat it up, not ask me to. My car broke down the next day as the main computer board melted (+$1,000 in damage). The placement of the pool could have been better. I counted on them and paid extra to abut a deck. If the pool was set 1 foot more to the right it would have met the deck curve perfectly. But this would have required them to actually dig out and prepare another foot that the old pool was not on. I paid for this. They are supposed to be the professionals, but they took the easy way out whenever they could. Nothing that came out of Al's mouth was genuine. He kissed my a** all day trying to butter me up for the big sell, I felt like I was dealing with a used car salesman. Even if the bubble wrap was a good idea, at that point I trusted nothing that came out of his mouth. They left my yard a mess and did not take the boxes away. My driveway had an inch of stone dust on it. A simple broom and sweep would have been sufficient. The $1,000 bubble wrap hard sell was insulting to my intelligence. Offering me a lower price for "cash". Out of all the line items that Melanie carefully went over in terms of add-ons, why is the bubble wrap coming up during the installation? I will tell you why, because they give the customer no time to research on purpose and hope they throw money away under pressure. Abramo Pools confirmed that this was not necessary and also took exception to them telling his customers the pool was "cheap". They were also appalled that he had the customer heat up the liner in their own car.
The experience working with Al was just sleezy, for lack of a better word, but appropriate. I can't tell you how annoyed I am, just a bunch of gypsies. Lastly, I have a very sharp rock sticking up from the bottom of the liner. They were supposed to remove the old stone dust, rake and clean the area and then apply new stone dust. They literally just went over it. These guys barely had to grab a shovel but charged me a ton of money for it. read more