Purchased pool equipment and chemicals for our pool
- Approximate cost of services:
- $9,000.00
Purchased pool equipment and chemicals for our pool
Pool vacuum, pump & filter repair
Swimming Pool sales, Installation and service
This customer has a beaded winter cover that someone duct taped in 4 or 5 places to the sides of her pool instead of putting it in the track. Instead of water bags, we found this pool to be weighted down with 12" ceramic tiles which I promptly told her to never put around a pool for weight again. Because the pool wasn't closed properly, the winter cover was sunk in the pool and we had no way of retrieving it except to pull it out of the pool. There was no debris laying on top of the pool, and all these steps were explained to her and to her son during our extraction of cover and cleaning process. We clean all pool covers with a disinfecting agent that is designed to be put away wet. Any pool company will tell you this information. For some reason this customers filter system was taken apart in the winter closing and never put together again. Our pool opening does not involve reassembling the customers equipment after someone else has taken it apart. The pipes were all connected as we do with any opening. The pool was shocked and algaecide put in. The service that this customer wanted would be a 3-4 hour dedication and that would be a service team coming after being booked by customer and paid for, as nobody works for free. This customer and her son spent 1 1/2 hours at the store talking to Tav and to Paul about how to run their pool and after we spent this time trying to help them, they still came back to same point "When are you going to come and open pool properly?. This customer needs to call around and find out what exactly is involved with a pool opening. There are companies that offer maintenance programs but we do not offer that service and our work order with this customer was specifically for a "pool opening".
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In the fall of 2016 this customer booked a pool inspection for their pool, then immediately canceled it. We have no prior history with this customer or with their pool so this type of action rises suspicion on our part. We close all pools with plugs and equipment supplied by customers which is common practice with all pool closings. This customer called us Saturday April 15/17 around 3pm. (after opening their own pool) to tell us that one of the plugs had fallen out of their jets into the pool which could very well have happened. The plug would not have fallen into the pool until spring thaw time which would make the plug shrink and fall out (also common). As far as the customer saying Tav was being rude and aggressive, that is not true. Tav had to tell this customer and their father who kept yelling in the background to calm down. Tav instructed them to get the equipment hooked up and everything running and give us a call. We have not heard from them until this review which brings us back to the question of why a pool inspection was ordered and then canceled and then a pool closing ordered. It would take a day or so to hook up equipment, bring water level up, run system for a day or so, to determine water loss. This review was done Saturday, the same day the customer called the store. Luckily for Tav Pools and Water Kingdom, our staff keep all our work very well documented.
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