Very disappointing customer service. I called Town and Country Pool to ask about service and…read morerequested to speak with the owner. The front desk employee rudely told me I couldn't speak with him and wouldn't even let me leave my name or explain my questions. He then hung up on me. I understand that an owner may not always be available, but there was no reason to be so dismissive and unprofessional. Based on this experience, I would not recommend this company

I honestly have nothing but great things to say about Town and Country pools, they were phenomenal…read more I went into the pool build process nervous due to the horror stories you read about with other pool builders. You will find no one better than T&C. I was immediately sold on Town and Country from day 1 and it is purely because of Emil Hermis, our builder. I filled out a request for information and within an hour Emil came to our home and began designing. Emil immediately struck me as a man of integrity, dedication, and very knowledgeable. My first impression was not wrong, Emil is a master of his craft and every single detail mentioned was delivered upon with perfection. I cannot begin to describe how grateful and thankful to Emil we are. The contractors used by T&C are top notch. There wasn't a single crew that worked on our pool that wasn't simply amazing. All were incredibly friendly, respectful, diligent, and hard working. The quality and skill every single crew brought to the build cannot be understated.. and they did it in 100 degree Southeast Texas heat. I cannot stress enough to a potential pool buyer, take care of your crews working on your pool. It is boiling hot outside and these guys do not take breaks, get them Gatorade or water. It doesn't take much to take care for the people giving you their all in our weather. We love our new pool and could not recommend Town and Country enough. We will absolutely be repeat customers if the next home we buy needs a pool built. Thank you Emil, thank you Town and Country!

Things started out great. Scott is amazing. So thorough, so friendly, truly great. But after the…read morefirst few visits, service declined. Our pool was left on drain and we lost over a ft of water and we were blamed for our equipment being wrong. His guys moved items of our personal property and didn't put them back upon completion and they got destroyed... We were blamed. Pool wasn't being fully cleaned, entire sections untouched, and when I tried asking for more thoroughness, we were blamed for failing to maintain equipment and called names and had our service cancelled. We cleaned the filters when recommended, we replaced parts as recommended, but try to get clarity on why you'd need to spend hundreds or thousand on parts that just passed their inspection recently and suddenly you're a problem. Aaron was so disproportionately aggressive and is not open to conversation. He wants absolute obedience to anything he wants you to buy, no questions asked, or he attacks your character. There are reviews elsewhere where he doxxed a client for having complaints, viciously verbally attacks customers who complained, and always says he has 30,000 clients with no complaints to everyone who complains... With less than 300 reviews total and places where ratings are as low as 3.9 stars. Not worth the trouble if you're just going to have to find someone else in 3 months when you inevitably face his childish and crazy behavior at the first issue.

After two bad experiences with other pool companies we switched to Spring Woodlands Pools. Spring…read moreWoodlands pools turned our pool from green to a beautiful blue in a few days. Their techs spend time getting and keeping the pool clean. Their repairs are done right and reasonably priced. We've been with Spring Woodlands pools for over 2 years now. Highly recommend this Company for routine pool upkeep and all equipment repairs!

I was initially impressed by Patten. They are knowledgable and timely with their service calls…read more The last one did me in though. I had their tech (Jake) out to repair a leak. He said he fixed it, gave an invoice, asked me to call him if it continues to leak. All good so far, right? It started to leak at the same spot the next day. I had them back out again. In the middle of the visit, I go out to talk with them to find out what's up. He said he must of tightened something too tightly and caused a seal to break, and now it needs to be replaced. Not my fault, right? No, it's my fault. I had to buy a new part. Things happen, fine. I'm a little upset but I'll live. Now the pressure in my pool is high, and Jake advises a cleaning. I agree. He asks to use my chemical, the last of my Muriatic acid. I didn't like this at all, but he didn't give me a choice. Now I have to take time out of my day to go buy new chemical. During the filter cleaning, Jake and his help (Kevin) were constantly arguing back and forth. These remarks persisted through the entire visit, and was very unprofessional. They seemed like they were genuinely pissed off at one another. Here I am, now with invoices paid for both visits, and I don't feel good about it at all. There's too many pool repair companies for me to have to deal with the lack of professionalism during the call and additional charges for labor for things they admitted breaking. I guess I'll just have to deal with it, because Patten wouldn't offer to help me on the resulting bill at all. PS. I take that back, there's a .01 (penny) adjustment on my invoice. Seriously.

We DO NOT recommend Patten Pools or his new owner, Bill England. We hired them to replaster and fix…read moreour pool shortly after we bought our house in Grogan's Mill. I forwarded Bill the pool inspection report, and he emailed us a proposal stating what needed to be done, the job duration (7-10 days), and the cost ($6,348). We paid a 1/3 deposit. We told him we had never owned a pool before, and that we were not living in the house yet and would move to The Woodlands (from the East Coast) mid- to end-June. Patten's work was not good. Besides, despite our repeated requests, Bill was not always good at communicating and did not always show up when he said he would (once we paid someone to be at our property to give Bill access to the property, but Bill did not show up or call; after one hour of waiting we called and emailed Bill and he said he had a last minute emergency - but did not have the courtesy to call!). May and June rains delayed Bill's work. He called to ask if it was ok to start the work a couple of weeks later. We said ok (since we would move in mid-June). What he did not say was that the rains could ruin our pool and that we should get someone to take care of it until he could get to it. On June 11, we found a deep-green pool, and a pump with a huge leak problem at our new home. I called and emailed Paten; they sent someone who told us we would have to sandblast the flagstone. We got stuck paying an extra $1,500 to clean the now green-gunky flagstone - the same flagstone that two and a half weeks before had looked just fine, and that the rains and Patten's inattention and carelessness had contributed to turn green. (Bill could deny any wrongdoing by pointing out that it was OUR pool and our responsibility, and that we had only hired him to replaster it and repair it, and not to clean it, right? I ask, as a business owner, is it not appropriate to alert your customers of the risk that the rains may pose to their pool and the surrounding flagstone? Particularly to customers who have told you they have never owned a pool before and who are still on the East Coast?) A few days later, on June 24, his crew replastered our pool. They left a mess in our backyard. Two days later, I showed Bill the mess; he said someone would come clean it up. It took him a week and two reminders to clean it up - and not entirely. To this day, we have remains of plaster in our backyard. "The pump needs to run continuously for 72 hours", Bill wrote in his email instructions to us after he started the pool. But the pump suddenly stopped working the day after. We called him to tell him the pool pump had shut off, even though we had not come near it. He showed up at our house a few hours later, turned the pump on again, and explained that he had left the timer on because he was not wearing his prescription glasses the day before, and could not see well. His unapologetic tone was insulting. Patten's proposal included initial daily brushing of the pool, after replastering. Most pool experts recommend brushing once or twice a day for the first 14 days (we did not know this until a couple of weeks ago). We do not recall Patten's staff coming daily to brush our newly plastered pool; they may have come every other day or every three days, and only for a few days. Patten's proposal also included changing the GFCI, pool light bulbs and gaskets. That, in response to a problem identified in the pool inspection report we had given Bill. To this date, water condensation around the lights cause the GFCI to trip shortly after we turn them on. Patten did not address this problem - or perhaps the gaskets were improperly placed, who knows. We will have to pay another contractor to solve this problem. Bill's email instructions warned us "no swimming for one week". However, 3 weeks and $7,937.03 later, we still could not swim in our pool; and we were being charged extra for work that we understood was part of what we paid for. Also, Bill's email instructed us to "not put the cleaner in the pool for 2 weeks"; most pool experts (we later learned) warn against using wheeled devices within 28 days after replastering a pool because doing so sooner could cause wheel tracks to show on the pool finish. Someone from Patten put our Polaris cleaner in our pool on July 13, exactly 19 days from the date they started replastering our pool. On July 14, I went to Bill's office and left him a $6,026.03 check and a note saying we were less than satisfied with how the work was handled and the lack of communication. The next day I emailed him asking to not put salt in our pool (he said he would do so by July 17th, contradicting his own email instructions that said "no salt for 4 weeks"!). All we got was an email from him asking if we were switching to chlorine. No words from him since. One star b/c we texted him on 4 of July asking him what to do about the mosquito larvae and tadpoles breeding in our waterfall and he promptly replied (Clorox!).

I've been through three pool remodels and worked with many contractors, and most wanted large…read morepayments up front. I've even had people walk off mid-project owing me money. Jose with Magnolia Pool Renovations was the complete opposite. He delivered exactly what he promised, at a fair price, and only requested payment as the project progressed. He also came out at the very end to make sure every detail was perfect before collecting the final payment. We did a major pool and patio remodel, and the results were outstanding--absolutely beautiful. Jose worked closely with us to choose the right patio stone, pool plaster, and waterline tile, and he even modernized the look of our hot tub, turning it into a stunning centerpiece. I will absolutely use him again and highly recommend him.

They went out their way on a Friday to get me a pool filter from their warehouse before end of day…read more Other pool supply in town said it would be 2 weeks. Definitely will shop here going forward.

Well it's been a year and my pool looks great, the only things that changed was religiously…read morechecking my CYA readings with the NEW company......when they took over my CYA was maxed out and my pool had been chemically locked. I never got a weekly chemical reading from Pinch A Penny now I get a full breakdown of what's going on with my pool and what every chemical level is at including CYA - my pool looks great again...... I've lived here since 2018. Horses have always been on the property before I purchased it. It wasn't the horses. It was the lack of getting a proper CYA reading. And the new company fixed my circulation issues as shown by the giant fountain in the updated picture of a nice clean pool

Horrible customer service from general manager. The picture shown is a Jandy three-way valve cover…read morethat was pulled straight out of the bag after leaving the store . She sold me a USED part at full price and when I came to show her, she told me oh well I guess it's your first and last time here. The only person worth highlighting in a good lighting would be Mr. Nicholas, who actually tried to defuse and solve the problem.

Absolutely the WORST experience IN-store. I called BEFORE any service was rendered and was informed…read morethat my service-request would be $50. I disclosed that there was algae presence (from Hurricane Beryl) and that I just needed the pool vacuumed. I was offered algae service, and I declined. I said I would go in-store to make my payment immediately after it was completed. When I came into the store (right after service was completed) I gathered a bunch of items to add to my service charge (a pool vacuum, a pool stick, putty, two additional parts for my filter cartridge), but I was met with a short lady with an BAD ATTITUDE and a straight bob-cut. She yelled A-C-R-O-S-S the room "THISSS ONE is YOURRRSSSS!" With this look on HER face like "you're disgusting" while rolling her eyes as I was explaining the circumstances of my services. She then walked away & went to the back of the room whispering sweet-nothings to her colleagues WHILE I was being assisted by Nicholas. Don't waste your time here. Even when Nicholas was helping me she decided to come BACK to the front and cross her arms standing beside me then raised her voice saying, "Let me tell you how we do this here!!! We charge for regular vacuuming and chemicals." Yes, I'm aware, but I didn't need chemicals and all I wanted was a vacuum. "GPS shows car turned off at 1:11pm" Yes, but service didn't start UNTIL AFTER Eric made a phone call to the office & verified with me (I had to use google translate) that all I needed was vacuuming. Point blank: Nicholas adjusted my amount due to $50 as we agreed on the phone. Invoice now sent via email. So before I left this lady said with a smirk on her face "issss everythingggg okaayyyy nowww??" I said, "No." She INSISTED on getting louder and cutting me off as I was simply asking this "bad-attitude Bob-cut Lady" to talk to me AND the other staff like we are human because she IS NOT better than any of us. Everyone deserves to be treated with common decency and respect... Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa on SPRING CYPRESS is NOT the place to get either. Keep moving along....

Totally incompetent pool builder who made numerous mistakes which have cost thousands of dollars to…read morerepair and correct. Due to no supervision, during the construction of a round spa, we ended up with horseshoe ??. It was a major defect and I won't even begin to address the plumbing.

I have to share my experience and tell you how disappointed I am in KC Arnold's unkept promises…read more He came to us with his bid and design for a pool in our new house's backyard in June of 2020 and promised the world. I suppose hearing his stories of the "big guys" and how you're just a number to them and how they sign you up only to quit working at the earliest forecast of rain, etc. worked on me. I believed him when he told us that we would be swimming before the summer ends. I believed him when he told us that he would be done within 5 weeks of starting our pool. I will give him this--he is a great salesman. He regaled us with tales of all of his previous pool work and showed us pictures of his happy customers. From the first time we met with him I responded to his energy--even when he had bad news about the schedule and summer began to slip away, we still believed in his enthusiasm for the pool. Unfortunately, he came up with excuse after excuse to put off the construction of our pool. Please understand that we were willing to cut him plenty of slack for the toll that COVID took on his sub-contractors' crews over the summer. But the only time KC ever took action is when we threatened to stop paying him. He told us that we were next in line for gunite for over 3 months. Amazingly, when we told him on a Friday that we were going to select another contractor, the load of gunite appeared the following Monday! He began digging the pool in early September, finally applying the gunite to create the inside of the pool in October. In late October my wife and KC discussed how small the deck area around the pool looked as compared to the design we had seen (in the bid, he promised 1,024 sq. ft. of concrete deck, but it was significantly less than that when he prepped the area around the pool). My wife told him, "If you can forward me the email that you sent regarding our final plans, and this is something we glanced over, then we will pay for half of the cost for additional concrete." Unfortunately, he never emailed us the "final design;" it was sent for the first time to us that night. We called and told him this, and he replied that he would pay for his mistake (!), but (speaking over us to his wife), "I'm not giving them a warranty or a spray deck...nothing! I'm done!" Then, he hung up the phone on us! He apologized the next week for his actions, and finally "finished" the pool on November 1 (which still wasn't totally finished, btw). He told me that if he didn't get his final payment the next day, then "you'll see me blow a gasket, and you don't want that." However, there were significant issues pointed out to me by more than one of the pool cleaning companies we interviewed that made me embarrassed to admit how much we paid for our pool from KC. For instance, he added a second pump for the water features which, I have since been told, was redundant for a smaller 16K gallon pool. (The single pump is enough to work for a pool twice our size, water features included). But because it pulls the dirty water from the bigger pump, it will require cleaning every 1-1 1/2 months instead of the normal 4-6 months that filters require to avoid mold. And it pads the bid for the pool contractor. Since getting a pool is such a significant investment (for us, anyway LOL), we don't like hearing other pool contractors making bids here in our neighborhood telling us that we should have paid significantly less than we did for what we got. KC charged us at least 20% more than other companies we have since seen. I know, I know, we signed the contract at the price we paid and can't change that now. But I can tell you that it shouldn't happen again to you now that you know what has happened to us. If I could go back in time, I would not have believed all of KC's promises...and likely saved some money, too.

Sandstone refinished my pool 3 years ago and have been servicing it ever since. I am happy with…read morethe service I have received, and the company has always been prompt in responding to and questions I might have.

All they do is they'll come out. The guy's really nice and he was very polite, but they really…read moredon't care for their customers. They don't call you back. They just take your debit card and they prepare to charge you for a month. And I have stated to them. They've only been here once I canceled service. They better not charge me for a month of service. They are wrong