The name of this company should be changed to Nothing But Problems Pools. If I could give it negative stars I would.
It's almost impossible to even know where to start with this review. I can honestly say this company is the worst contractor I have ever worked with, big or small. My wife and I have owned multiple homes and done dozens of small and large scale remodels, and we've never had a worse experience than the one we had with this company. They are unreliable, have zero communication, no care for the customer, and no ability to plan or project manage. You would expect upon signing a contract for over $150k to do a brand new custom pool, you'd get world class customer service. But nope, you get treated like an annoying customer at a fast food drive through buying a $5 happy meal. I consider myself a very easy-going person, and I pay for all jobs on time without any hassle. But my expectation is that the company I hire will provide top notch service. I always assume there will be problems, but it's how they are handled and communicated that goes a long way in ensuring a project goes as well as it can.
I don't have the time or energy to list every single issue we had with this company, but here are the lowlights:
- If you hire this company, I would strongly suggest you study up on the entire pool construction process, because if you want anything done, you will have to become the project manager. I can't stress this enough - if you want ANYTHING done, you will have to call, text, (don't email because it will never get answered), and even threaten to fire them to get them to do it. Otherwise, you will go weeks, or even months on end, with nothing happening. And to make it worse, there will be zero communication during this time on what is going on.
- You will never, ever, ever get a schedule. No matter how many times you ask, it will be ignored, or promised "by tomorrow", and then it will be crickets.
- Everything is a fire drill, and I mean everything. It seems as if Luis and his team only get things done based on which customer is screaming the loudest at them. They show zero care for the customer/client.
- They have no ability to plan, at all, and it doesn't matter if you tell them what you want months and months in advance. They'll spend no time to plan out what is needed and when. So, again, everything is last minute and a fire drill. Tile = not ordered, and when ordered didn't order enough, caused long delays. Coping = not ordered, and when ordered didn't order enough, caused long delays. Pool cover = not ordered, caused month long delay
- We had countless commits for something to get done, and come that day, nobody shows up, And of course, no communication. Then the screaming and yelling starts again, more promises made, more commits missed, and the cycle goes on.
- Not only did we have to micromanage every single step of the project, we also had to call the retailers who supply the coping, tile, pool cover, etc to find out if the material was even ordered, and if it was, when, etc. It's shocking the level of micromanaging my wife and I had to do.
- The gunite was installed wrong because they didn't bother to follow their own design plans. If we didn't happen to be home that day to catch it, we would have had a pool design we didn't order.
- Almost everything is done to about 50-75% and then starts the cycle of screaming and yelling to get it done. So a 1 day job turns into weeks or months sitting around waiting. Equipment gets installed - but solar isn't connected, spa isn't connected, heater doesn't work, they forget to set up the automatic water fill, etc. Tile is ordered and shows up but is only half of what is needed. Coping finally shows up but is only 75% of what is needed. Water is put in the pool but they don't bother to get equipment running, chemicals put in, or clean it.
- They show zero care for the customer or customer service. They install thousands of dollars of pool equipment, and at no point, bother to explain it to you or show you how it works and its take begging to get this. I would expect a company who builds custom pools to go out of their way to make sure everything is working and the customer is educated on it.
I wish I could say "at least the quality of their work is good", but the care they show is pathetic. We had issues with their work at every step that had to be fixed, with many still in the process of being fixed - gunite installed wrong, tile and grout chipped, lights and drains misaligned, pebble stained from dirty water sitting for weeks, equipment not working, never bothered to clean up anything (debris, gunite, pebble) etc. etc etc.
Our project started in October 2021, and it's the middle of July 2022 and we are still fighting to get it finished. A 12-16 week project is now going into week #40, with at least another 4 weeks to go...assuming the latest promises we got are even accurate. read more