I so very disappointed in this company. I purchased my home in New Braunfels near Gruene. I…read moredecided if I could not get approval for a pool I would move. I spent a year, getting estimates, talking to companies etc. I chose Premier, partly because they built my sisters pool several years ago, and seemed to have a good professional work ethic. I thought I would get the backing of the national company.
The company/ store/ franchise in SA had just been purchased not long before I talked with the Werlings. It took a while to get approval from the city, then excavation began. Unfortunately, the dirt etc. Was laid into the street. Because I'm in a gated neighborhood, we must pay for our own street. Well the street asphalt was scratched and dented, and cut and worn down to very little, etc, as the spoils should have been placed directly in a trailer (to be hauled off). The equipment used to move spoils off of street into a trailer- damaged the street. I complained after it was picked up and Robs wife Venessa was working very hard to pressure wash the street. She did as good of a job as any one could at the time, but the dents, deep scratches and marks etc are still there.
Then the form was built, (it is 1 1/2 foot above the ground) like a hot tub. It actually is a hot tub, spool, or a cocktail pool. Well the concrete for the base of pool was completed, then tile laid. Coping should have been next, I was told it was in stock, but it still is not here or installed. Rob wanted to pour the concrete around the pool before the coping was installed. Well a few days after concrete was poured, the rains came and all the rain came to my front door (actually it's on the side- like a courtyard, but main entry way to house) and water up to my threshold of my door. I would bet it went above weep holes, and water could have gotten in walls. There was no drain on my side of the pool, there is a French drain under the neighbors, next to their foundation. But on my side, all the water collected at my front door.
I also had a pile of wood, concrete, pipe etc in my front yard and continued to ask Rob to please remove, or my neighbors were going to and charge him. I was out of town and texted me it had been removed, but only part of it was. There is still quite a bit of concrete pieces piled there. I expected my front yard and my side walk and driveway to need work after this pool was built, as we have very strict restrictions regarding color/ stain of sidewalks and driveways. Well several of the neighbors side walks are discolored as well, from the way they hauled items in, scratched them up etc.
After calling many times and my calls and texts being ignored, Rob called and said his phone had gotten wet so it didn't work for 3-4 days. In the meantime, there is still this flooding issue. More than 2 weeks, after concrete pour, he sent a contractor out to grind down concrete, and they may have worked a total of 7 hours in the last 4 1/2 weeks, not coming close to completion. I believe Rob is trying to fix with bandaid. Several times I was told someone was coming to fix, but no show.
I still have no coping, yet I have paid for all tile including coping and instillation of it. I have paid for concrete pour, I have paid for cool-deck/ to be sprayed on concrete all over poured concrete as well as in my side and back yard concrete areas. There is concrete on my gate, on my hoses, wires sticking out of concrete and little is fixed.
At one point I was told they would be plastering directly after Easter, but instead, I have paid for much work that has either not been completed or been very inferior work. The grade of concrete has to be corrected before cool deck can be poured, but the grading of the concrete to change the flow of water was just started and may take several months.
I am so upset and irritated.
Robs wife Venessa is very nice and appears to be understanding, but I just wanted a pool and that means... junk in yard hauled off, coping sealed and put on, concrete corrected,cool deck sprayed, top sprayed, plaster or coating put in pool, equipment installed and hooked up properly and yard and gate and concrete off places it should be. The forms have not all been removed, after 4 weeks- really? I can see this taking until end of summer, if it ever really does get finished. I do not understand, why I am being taken advantage of, because I have paid, they quit working here? Really? I am not pleased with being ignored. I have contacted national number / web page for Premier Pool complaints, I have heard nothing in response. I am spending an enormous amount on this pool, and I feel I am being treated very unfairly, since I've paid for more than I have received, plus I've been ignored.
Ironically, I'm not even a complainer, this is insane!