Let me start by saying Devon is a problem. He's unprofessional (um, sagging pants with boxers hanging out? Yuck.) and lacks customer service.
When my husband and I bought our new house a few weeks ago one of our most important projects was having a fence put around our pool because we have a young daughter, friends with toddlers, and two dogs with bark collars that aren't supposed to be submerged in water. This small pool gate (literally 2 fences maybe 4 sections wide) has been quite the fiasco for us right from the beginning. To start, Devon came over to give us a quote and we immediately decided to book with him. We decided on the following Thursday and were given the timeframe of 1-3 but Thursday rolls around and no one shows up. My husband calls Devon to hear that he had forgotten to put our pool fence on the books because he had given a quote to someone in Mariposa that same day who had land to hunt on (I guess thinking that telling my husband this is going to make him understand because he's a hunter too (?)) and they'd needed that Thursday so because we didn't have hunting grounds, we were forgotten- strike 1. He told my husband he would come out himself on Saturday to install it for us, which earned him a little redemption but I was still pretty frustrated. Saturday comes and Devon shows up to put in our pool fence, in the rain, which seemed to go fine until the following week when my husband turned the solar on for our pool. Right where the pool fence was in the dirt, a geyser was erupting and spraying water everywhere, he'd drilled right through our solar pipes- strike 2. When he came out to assess the damage my husband wasn't home so he talked to me and told me the Saturday he installed the fence he was hoping to be done quickly because he was taking his son to some monster truck event which showed me that he rushed through our fence in order to get to his event in time- strike 3. At this point I was ready to call the company myself but my too-nice husband said he would speak to Devon directly. The solar pipes were fixed by our pool guy and the company footed the bill, which I appreciated, but Devon had told my husband he would be back either Wednesday or Thursday to fix the fence..HE NEVER SHOWED- strike 4! My husband called him, yet again, and he says he'll come by Friday to finish the stupid fence. He shows up, great, hubby tells me to stay in the house because at this point I'm PISSED, and fixes the fence and then tells my husband "well at least you know I'm good for it," uh, sorry dude, no, you're not. Today, 4 days later, I've chased my dogs FIVE times back around the pool fence which conveniently has a big gap between that and our back fence. One of the main reasons for getting this fence was to keep the dogs away from the pool, which it is NOT doing- strike 5! I'm SO beyond annoyed at this point. Now I have to monitor the fence to make sure my dogs aren't getting through or put a pile of rocks next to it to keep them out. This is ridiculous, we had way too many issues with this company, I would love to have my money back for ALL the inconveniences that were caused by the installation. read more