One thing in life, I don't like to feel scammed. My husband had to go away for work for some time,…read morebut he has always done our pool. Because he has his own pool business, we have the best equipment to make sure our pool looks great.
Since he was away, I had to get someone to make sure the pool was clean and kept together. It got a little algae on the side, nothing that a little bit a chemicals could not take care, but I did not trust myself with the chemicals.
I first used Tony's Ppol Services last week. They cleaned up the algae with chemicals, but later told me my brush and net did not work and that I needed new ones. First off, my husband who does pools professionally had no issues with our net and brush, and the past owner of my house who also did pools professionally, used the same equipment and had no issues with it, but Tony's Pools had an issue.
Second week, I came home, and the pool wasn't netted, the sides weren't brushed, and there's stuff on my stairs now. To put it in prospective, I have a filter that looks like a little car that constantly drives on the bottom of my pool in the morning to pick up what drops in the pool, and a solar skimmer that constantly skims the top of my pool when the sun is up. The pool practically cleans itself, it just needs mostly chemicals, a quick brush on the sides and an emptying of the little car.
I brought this to the attention of the owner, and he asked when my filters were cleaned, and I told him about 3 months ago. He said because of the algae, I needed my filters clean and he would put it on the "to do" list. Nice try, the filters may have needed cleaning if my pool was green, but one corner barely had algae. So two weeks into hiring them, I needed a net, a brush, and a filter clean.
Look, Maybe you can scam other people who don't know pools, but I am hoping people will either think twice about hiring them or they will change their business practices. Fake niceness and frequent "friendly" texts may make people love this company, but I just wanted someone to do an honest job. I will do my own pool until I can find someone else.