We signed our paperwork on February 25th, 2022 - thinking this would be plenty of time to have the pool done by June. Nope! Our pool was finally completed on July11th. For a business being in business for 15 years, this company is a joke.
We understood from the beginning that we had an unusual backyard, as it is tiered. But we waited over a month on Engineering for them to simply come back and say the rebar just needs to be reinforced. Well duh! It took a month to come up with that??? Dig crew finally came, and was fine, except that garbage was left for us to clean up.
Next part was rebar. The first crew to show up seemed drunk. They had bloodshot eyes, were slurring their words, and stumbling. They didn't want to take down the fence to unload the materials. We told them to leave and then texted Kaytea, the "project manager." She assigned us a new crew, but we would be bumped back a week, Guess no good deed goes unpunished!
Kaytea Thomas is the "Project Manager" for Thomas Pools & Spas. She does not know what she is doing. She lacks customer service and communication skills. She doesn't know how to deal with upset and authoritative customers. She has no idea how to schedule. Essentially, she has this job because her parents own the business. Even now after the pool is done she has yet to be out to the site. Shepawned us off on to Greg and Ryan, both who are sales guys and have that job to do.
Gunite crew was out the beginning of May. This crew broke part of fence and left trash and debris in our walkway. When we told Kaytea about the mess left we were told "it's a process and don't touch anything in the construction area." Well, our walkway is not in the construction area and should have been cleaned like we were told would happen when we signed papers.
Now we have been passed on to Becca, who schedules from tile to finish. Concrete would be next, and the concrete guy wanted to see the project to gauge what he would need. Ok, but then we were stood up twice. The pool was over dug from the beginning and now we need a new plan to make everything flow with what is existing. On 5/25 a gunite guy and a Thomas Pools & Spas person were to supposed to show up. Nope! Yet more time of ours wasted. They did finally show up the next day to come up with a plan. We were told in April it wouldn't be anymore then $2500. It ended up being $4000! We were even told that Thomas Pools & Spas "had to eat $1000 in stone to make this right." only to find out that they really didn't because no extra stone was needed.
Tile would be scheduled next. When asked we were told "sometime this week." This is literally how this company schedules. Nothing is set in advance, and it is very frustrating for a homeowner. When did tile show up? The next day and we were not informed.
Now getting into the 3rd week in June and were told it'd be finished soon. We ask again when pool equipment will be set up. We always had to ask about scheduling. Not sure if anything would have even gotten done had we not take the initiative to ask. Now apparently Kaytea schedules the sub-contractors and Becca schedules with the homeowners. After waiting five days the pool equipment was "installed." Now there is a question about electrical, which was also known from day 1 - now we are losing more days. We now notice the pool equipment was even bolted down and the water line for the pump hadn't been done.
Once plaster gets done we get yet another shock. We can't swim for 10 days!! This is definitely something that should be disclosed at signing. We've had a pool before and never had this told to us. Also, pump has to run continuously for several days. One more thing that should have been disclosed to us, especially with the price of electricity.
In addition, when we signed our paperwork, Ryan told us we would get two weeks of pool cleaning service as part of getting the pool. Nope! Becca informed us we would just get 50% off. No one is on the same page at Thomas Pools & Spas.
Less than a month and a gasket from the skimmer gets sucked up. We are told "that's ok, it's not needed." Pretty sure gaskets are there for a reason. Plus we know have chunks of plaster coming off from the bottom. Contacted Todd and he said he'd get back to us. Two days later, and after we texted yet again to let them know we were unhappy, we get the response "the plaster guys will contact you." This is obviously not something we can fix and should have never happened, especially since that was "the best crew."
We then get a response from Todd, the owner, stating "At this point on you're not to contact any of my employees from here on out . . . " Which would be fine, had he actually gotten back to us.
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