DKT113 said:As it relates to the contract, I am not sure if you can get out of it or not...
That said, I would still fire the guy, if you "can't" fire him because of the contract, give him (30) days notice insisting he is not to introduce any product into your pool (you are within your rights to insist upon this, contract or not, 30 day notice and all). He makes his profit on the product. If you insist he quit adding chemicals, he isn't going to want to drive over and look at the water knowing he can't dump product even if you are contractually obligated to allow him for the (30) days. He will want to be spending his time at the homes allowing him to blindly dump in product. Yes if his business is slow he will most likely come through for the (30) days and assess a service call charge, but as long as he isn't dumping product you are ahead of the game because you will have control of your water, very economically.
That really may be a good idea for us... I mean, the problem we have is my husband gets out there and in 30 minutes his back hurts. So it's the physical getting it cleaned because we've never got a cover because someone at a pool store told us not to bother with it which I thought was weird and stupid.
I've been testing the water in my mom's fish tanks since I was 10... and I went a few years ago and bought my own master kit (the expensive one) from pet smart so that I could start up my own aquarium. So I'm going to assume it's the same basic principle... just you know testing different things (I know you're not going to test for ammonia in a pool lol).
The pool guy is here right now. Our pool is still cloudy after the flucc which I'm assuming stuff that clumped up has to be vacuumed up still... We'll see what he says though. He doesn't knock on the door and tell me anything (which was okay with me because that's how it was last year when I could trust someone to get the job done) so I think my husband is going to call him afterwards and ask him on the progress of the pool.