Pool & Spa Depot

Find another pool installer. While our in-ground pool was installed well, the process was nearly unbearable. For background, I work for a large contractor building hospitals. Suffice it to say, this is not my first construction project. For ease of review, I am going to break down my comments to bullet points:

Pro:

* The on-site crews that worked on the project were great. Courteous, efficient, and clean.

* The pool is great. The salt-water system is awesome. Glad they talked us into it.

Con:

* The P&S Project Manager NEVER visited out house to oversee the work. It was left to my wife to coordinate.

* The contract included excavation. After the excavation started I was surprised to find that their version of excavation did not include handling the spoils (the material that comes out of the ground). That was our first unexpected $1500 charge.

* The contract stated that we had to provide the stone, sand, concrete and portland cement. They would use these materials to build our pool. While the installers did use the sand and portland cement to create pool bottom, and the concrete to anchor the bottom of the pool walls, we were surprised their installation did not include backfilling the pool walls with the stone we purchased. More unexpected costs...

* I have friends in the industry and chose to choose my own electrician and concrete contractor. For some reason the P&S Project Manager could not, or chose not to, coordinate his effort with theirs. It was a constant headache.

* The slide we wanted was supposed to be a "lightly scratched show room model". What arrived was not just a little worn, but had holes drilled into it on the slide surface. It was pretty obvious that it was previously installed somewhere else and during the previous install, they ruined the slide. They were pretty irritated that my wife pointed out the obvious issues (which the on-site installer acknowledged) asked that it be taken back. After weeks of calls, we finally got a refund on the slide.

* The PM for P&S got so frustrated that my wife would expect materials to be provided when promised, teams would arrive on time, and insist on being treated fairly that they actually asked that she not be allowed to talk to them anymore - they only wanted to deal with me.

* Due to the fact we started the pool installation in late fall, the pool was not completed until the spring. We wanted and finally received a visit to guide us in the operation of the pool systems. We were surprised to receive a bill 6 months later seeking reimbursement for that "Start-Up Visit". After contacting them, we discovered that the PM was no longer working for P&S and they were trying to clean up his files. Thankfully they did not insist on payment after we explained our situation.

In short, find some other firm to build your pool.…

Fake Reviews to boost star ratings. Pool and Spa Depot has a reputation for being dishonest and rude. Sadly this rating forum allows for the vendor, in this case Pool and Spa Depot, to load the review space with five star ratings to compensate for the truth about how actual customers feel about dealing with that place. Its terrible. No one I have ever spoken to that has delt with that place has had anything nice to say. Once the money has exchanged hands you might as well not exist. They do not return phone calls. They will put you on hold until you give up and hang up. They will lie straight to your face about delivery times, product availability, price, installation, reputation. You name it. It is run by a group of people who thinks the general population is stupid and undeserving of respect. We are live stock to these people. Pigs with money and it is their mission to take as much of it from us as they can. Do not trust one thing they say. They hire bad contractors who are also rude and dishonest. They will tear up your yard. Fail to bring parts. Fail to show up or call. Wont fix whats wrong and then lie about the costs. They will blame you for breaking it and wont cover it as they say they will. Or they will replace things that dont need it to rise up the bill.

My family bought...tried to buy... an in ground pool and a hot tub. We got some smooth snake who creeped us out and who smelled of booze giving us a long line of promises....all of them sounded just like all those five star reviews on this city search boloney. We will do this. you can expect that. It will be done on this day. We will incluude this as a bonus...and so on. All lies. We had to call about ten times before we could get the sales manager to even talk to us after we signed the contract and waited for the install day that passed by without a call from the store....a contract we were later told did not list all the promises that they made and free stuff they said was thrown in... so they didnt have to do any of it. And if we cancled the order we would only get part of our money back even if they had not started the job....or delivered the hot tub. No one is coming out to check on anything. No one is going to treat you right. They will forget your name as soon as the check clears.

Your best bet is to go anywhere else or burn the money because that place is crooked and they dont care about anything but money. They should be shut down and run out of Nashville.

You can bet that not one high rated review is from any real person. They all come from that store. The names in the 5 star reviews are the names of the people who will rip you off the most. You will regret going there. You will learn to hate that store as soon as you need their help with getting what you paid for delivered or repaired or installed. Its a joke. And its being played on all of us who made the mistake of shopping there. Stay away and teach them not to steal from people and lie about it.…