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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    The kids and I are looking forward to a full season of the pool this year!
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Thanks everyone!!
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Thanks everyone for all of your support –you have been so helpful! Can any of you recommend a robot vacuum for my 21 foot round semi inground pool? Now that it set up I need to figure out how to maintain it :)
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Hopefully this will be my final note on all of this. Ever since Riken installed the pool I’ve noticed the water level keeps dropping dramatically. So I will top it off using a hose and then the next morning wake up and the water level is well below the pool skimmer. Pools Plus came out...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Thanks for your message – they installed the pool two weeks ago and now I’ve just been waiting for the pool company to install the filter and heat pump. The area around the pool is an absolute mass and the backfill was done very poorly so I’ve had to hire an additional company to work on that...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Oh my god that is hilarious!
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Yes when this is all done I really should go online and post some reviews detailing this nightmare.
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Update - so the pool company is here now to install the filter and heat pump but told they can't do it because of the way the excavator/installer left the ground (all uneven). They said the excavator/installer would have to come back - I said no freaking way. Thankfully I have a different...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Yeah it was pretty bad. I’ve been self-employed for 13 years and one of the reasons I have stayed in business is that I respect my clients - their referrals have been my only source of additional business. I can’t imagine that this guy will stay in business very long if he treats all of...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    I still don’t have a finished pool. I was going to use the installer’s electrician to run the electrical for the filter and heat pump but based on what happened I have decided not to. I reached out to the company who sold me the pool for an electrician - Who I reached out to yesterday but he...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Well instead of rehashing everything I will send you what I have documented and sent to the Better Business Bureau - at least the parts since I last posted. Week of May 13, 2019 At this point, with no indication of a new installation date, I reached out to a number of other local pool...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    I ended up purchasing a “Waterbug” submersible pump - it worked great to pump the rainwater out of the tarp until things started falling from the trees and now it gets clogged up while pumping.
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    That's really what this all comes down to - lack of professionalism and customer service. Good customer service means setting realistic expectations from the beginning. I’m self-employed and if I knew that there was a chance of something causing a delay in my providing services to a client I...
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    Optimum pool saga continues need help

    Thanks for your message. Yes, I've been thinking there must be a solution like this that the installer could use (lime, gravel, something else) to dry up the mud rather than waiting 7-10 days for Mother Nature to dry up the hole but the pool seller and installer won't tell me if they can do this...