Hi.
My wife and I are currently building our first pool. It is a complete nightmare. We are building a pool with a spa and a tanning ledge. Pool is 15x30, plus spa and tanning ledge. We are 200+ days into a 90 day project. The first two weeks of the project went great, gunite shot, plumbing started, then everything stopped. Rain, tropical storm, snow storm, COVID product delays, etc. I am sure this is a issue on this site. 60 days later I notice several problems with the plumbing. Contractor brings a new plumbing crew on site and they reconfigure most of the plumbing. Work stops again for 2 months. Two weeks ago I noticed the drainage for the area around the pool was not working. Contractor had buried it and did not leave enough grade for proper drainage, plus some high spots in the drain pipe were causing it to hold water. I dug up the drain pipe, dug new trenches properly sloped and installed new PVC smooth drain pipe and drain grates. Contractor shows up the next weekend (hasn't been onsite for 45 days) and starts to finalize the deck forms, tie steel, delivered the pool equipment and set the LED laminar jets (boy those things are huge). Today he is supposed to pour the deck. Rain starts and I stop the pour before it starts. Water is pooling in the yard. A long time ago, a concrete contractor told me NEVER pour concrete on mud. It will always have problems. Has anyone ever fired a pool contractor in the middle of a project? I've paid him over $80K and am considering letting him go. There are several issue with the pool so far, including, tile not set right, piping issues (supposedly fixed) and the spa wall is not the same thickness along one wall (contractor says he will fix this, but it's 10" thicker on one end of the spa than the other, the form colapsed while they were spraying the gunite and he didn't notice). I had to hire a sub that was outside of the pool contract. The sub asked who was doing the pool. When I told him he asked how I got hooked up with this contractor. He is know for bad work. Has anyone had luck hiring another contractor in the middle of a project? I'm afraid I won't be able to find someone that will take the job on. Any idea would be helpful.
My wife and I are currently building our first pool. It is a complete nightmare. We are building a pool with a spa and a tanning ledge. Pool is 15x30, plus spa and tanning ledge. We are 200+ days into a 90 day project. The first two weeks of the project went great, gunite shot, plumbing started, then everything stopped. Rain, tropical storm, snow storm, COVID product delays, etc. I am sure this is a issue on this site. 60 days later I notice several problems with the plumbing. Contractor brings a new plumbing crew on site and they reconfigure most of the plumbing. Work stops again for 2 months. Two weeks ago I noticed the drainage for the area around the pool was not working. Contractor had buried it and did not leave enough grade for proper drainage, plus some high spots in the drain pipe were causing it to hold water. I dug up the drain pipe, dug new trenches properly sloped and installed new PVC smooth drain pipe and drain grates. Contractor shows up the next weekend (hasn't been onsite for 45 days) and starts to finalize the deck forms, tie steel, delivered the pool equipment and set the LED laminar jets (boy those things are huge). Today he is supposed to pour the deck. Rain starts and I stop the pour before it starts. Water is pooling in the yard. A long time ago, a concrete contractor told me NEVER pour concrete on mud. It will always have problems. Has anyone ever fired a pool contractor in the middle of a project? I've paid him over $80K and am considering letting him go. There are several issue with the pool so far, including, tile not set right, piping issues (supposedly fixed) and the spa wall is not the same thickness along one wall (contractor says he will fix this, but it's 10" thicker on one end of the spa than the other, the form colapsed while they were spraying the gunite and he didn't notice). I had to hire a sub that was outside of the pool contract. The sub asked who was doing the pool. When I told him he asked how I got hooked up with this contractor. He is know for bad work. Has anyone had luck hiring another contractor in the middle of a project? I'm afraid I won't be able to find someone that will take the job on. Any idea would be helpful.
