By posting this review I hope to give the reader not only information on Presidential Pools but…read moresome insight on having an inground pool built. Here is our story. After deciding that we wanted to have a pool built I went to the internet and researched pool companies in Tucson, trying to find the best ones. I narrowed it down to six companies. (There were more that were equally good but they specialized in larger, more high end pools.) Anyway, the six I contacted were Presidential, Southern Arizona, Oasis, Omni, Zarate, and First Choice. I set up appointments with each one of them to come out and look at our yard and discuss it with us. I gave each one the same basic parameters- approx 30 x 16 in size, with a depth of 3 in the shallow and 5 in the deep end. Fair amount of decking around the pool, no heater. Pebble sheen plaster. (Like Pebble Tec, but the aggregate is smaller). So everyone had the same marching orders. Bill Butler with Presidential was the first one to come out and the first one to get back to us with a layout drawing of our backyard with the pool in it along with a price. I had an immediate gut reaction to Bill that he was someone we could trust and that they would do a good job for us. It took awhile to gather all of the bids and alas, two companies just blew us off and never returned calls or got back to us with pricing. I'm not sure why that was, maybe the job wasn't big enough for them? Anyway, Omni and First Choice were the ones that ignored us, despite coming out and promising they would get back to us right away with pricing. So now it was down to four companies. Presidential and Oasis were pretty close in price, the Southern Arizona and then Zarate. So we compared apples and apples with Presidential and Oasis and we went with Presidential because although their bids were close to each other, we felt most comfortable with Bill Butler. So we signed a contract with Presidential and gave them a deposit. They said it would take about a month to get permits and whatnot and that is about what it took. After the permit was issued we then met with Heather, the project manager with Presidential. She explained to us in detail what the process would be from start to finish. Much like with Bill, we felt comfortable with Heather right from the start. I am a big believer in communication and Heather was great at that, always letting us know when crews were going to be showing up and what was going to happen next, etc. Anyway, after the month or so wait for permits, our project got underway. From the day they began excavation until the day we were swimming the total elapsed time was six and a half weeks! After completion they had a tech come out and do all of the equipment start up, chemicals, etc., and then a couple of days after that they had a tech come out and show us how to run everything and take care of our pool. And while our backyard is still under construction (by us, see pictures), our pool is complete and myself and our family are enjoying it to the fullest! Presidential Pools was absolutely great and this entire experience was painless. They built a quality pool in a timely fashion for a price that fit our budget. Bill Butler, Heather, Callie and the rest of the office staff, well, they were all great to deal with and all are very good at their jobs. I can't say enough good things about having Presidential Pools build our pool for us, I would highly recommend them!
Gary Hickey
Tucson