Based on my experience I recommend you stay away from this one-man company. Oren Sterling is dishonest and does not stand behind his work!!!
I contacted Oren when the pump on my pond failed after about 20 years of service.
He came out, pulled the pump and promised to return with a new one and to also clean and service my pond at the same time.
This he did and reinstalled an exact replacement pump as well as doing a good job cleaning and servicing the pond, although his charges of $1238.62 seemed excessive for a few hours work.
I paid the bill but within a few weeks the new pump started making a howling sound. Oren came out a few days after I called him and pronounced that the pump bearing had failed.
That's when the real trouble began...
I expected that the pump would be replaced under warranty, but Oren insisted that the pond design was to blame. I rejected this for two reasons; first, since the original pump had done fine for 20 years, and second, because Oren had reinstalled the new pump in exactly the same way, never mentioning any problem with the system design.
After some argument, he finally agreed to return the pump, but insisted that he now wanted to install a smaller pump and rework how it was installed. I finally agreed to this to get things moving forward.
A few days later he called to tell me that he had been able to return the pump, but the supplier had only been willing to give him a 75% refund. But "don't worry" he said "I will deal with the difference myself".
A few days later he returned and installed the smaller pump, which so far is working fine, but he then handed me an invoice for an additional $248.17 for the hour's work installing it!
So he kept the difference between the first pump and the significantly smaller one (I suspect that was around $200) and also charged me to reinstall what should clearly have been a warranty issue! BTW... never mentioning the last charge until the work was done.
Never going to call him again and I suggest anyone reading this review avoid Sterling Pond Service! read more