Shawn, the owner of Sharky Pools, was referred to me as I was looking for someone to find out where my pool was leaking from. Shawn presented himself as friendly and confident and was able to find and fix the leak.
While the pool was drained, I asked Shawn about creating a sun shelf to the pre-existing pool. He told me it would be quite simple and let me know what would need to be done for my son-in-law (a concrete foreman) to form it. After the sun shelf was formed, Shawn set up a Gunite crew to come in. He was present and instructing the crew as they did the work. He told me he would be back in 2 weeks with a plaster company. Cue the beginning of the unprofessionalism and Jekyll and Hyde personality. I finally had to reach out to Shawn after not hearing from him for 4 weeks. The Gunite crew had left a complete mess of the pool including leaving tools and shovels behind, cleaning concrete into my grass, excess overspray on the existing plaster, large piles of Gunite at the bottom of the sun shelf, and even pieces of Gunite in the in pool jacuzzi. Shawn said I needed to clean everything up before it would be able to be plastered! Or that if he had to do it, he would charge me $500. I asked what that would entail and basically, he said power washing it. I waited to give Shawn an answer so I could have a conversation with my son-in-law about him helping me and what his thoughts were.
The next day, a man from the plaster company showed up and he was surprised by the mess. I said to the plaster guy that I needed to power wash it and He told me there was much more that needed to be done. He proceeded to show me all the problems and mess left by the Gunite company and told me how I would need to be chipping off Gunite and grinding it down in the unlevel, poorly finished areas.
With this information, I reached back out to Shawn. He did not want to come over and look at or talk about it. He finally agreed to come over and was extremely rude and unprofessional. I shared the information from the plaster company, Shawn became hostile and said his price was now $1,000 to clean up the mess left by his contracted Gunite company. I asked if he felt good about that and Shawn said he is so busy and doesn't need my business. He said St. George area is booming and now he is charging $100 an hour because all these people moving here from California have lots of money. He then took to attempting to insult other "messes" in my yard before leaving me with his disaster!
I decided to reach out to Gooch Pools, they came out to assess the situation. It was then, I was informed it wasn't possible to bond plaster to existing plaster and how the job was done by cutting corners and lack of knowledge. However, Mike Gooch came up with a solution and had my pool finished and ready to use within a few days! Do not waste your time and money with Shawn and Sharky Pools. He is unprofessional, cuts corners, rude, and greedy. read more