H Leighty Construction

More to follow. Full story to come. For now if you are looking for a pool shop elsewhere. Update: For nearly a year we had to endure a lack of communication, failure to perform on a timely basis, very poor workmanship, miss scheduled work days (without notice), extreme amounts of time between text, phone or emails (communication), food, litter and debris mess of workers and demands for money. The quality of pool we have received, VERY POOR! We had a promise date of 8 weeks, guarantee finish before July 4th 2017. Then when that got missed the 18th, then Aug, we got water around the end of Aug. with no electrical completed, pump not working. Then the electrician came out and strung a temp 220 wire across my yard, over my grass so the dogs and grand kids had to be careful not to trip on it over Labor Day weekend. I could go on for days about the poor workmanship, bad concrete work, color of tile wrong, out of shape curve of wall (I still have tile falling off today), the unprofessional finger pointing (about everybody but him and his crew) which was most of the problem, the mess left behind from workers. Oct. after not hearing from him for over a month they were removed from the job by letter. Job abandonement. Only then we had contact asking for money. (Only the second time we were asked during construction. First time paid immediately. Nov. we had a meeting to go over all the issues, yes many. Second chance. He never finished them, in December he was permanently removed from job as we are finishing the issues ourself's. I hired this company on the sole reputation of Bill Bell, Care Free Pools which had built my last pool without a hitch. Bill recommended Leighty Construction as the purchaser of his company. Lesson learned! As for the claim of hardest client ever, hahaha. Just another case of blame game. He's good at that. We had no issues with subs but they have a lot of issues with this company and they don't mind talking about it. I would not recommend this company to a sole and have told my story to several perspective customers. If I could make this a -5 stars it would fit.

Concrete work still not complete after months. Asked that he seal our stamped concrete driveway and patio before the first rains. Not done. Offered no time table. Said that he, and only he, had the ability to do the staining of the stamped concrete work. He was nowhere to be found that day as his employees did the work. The front and back salt finished concrete are also turning pink because he didn't seal any of it. We didn't expect to have to ask or pay extra for sealant of our brand new, expensive, concrete. Pool: We contacted CareFree Pools/Bill Bell to have our pool done. He told us that Harley Leighty was to take over the business as Bill Bell was retiring. All payments were made to Leighty, invoices had Carefree header? We were told that we'd be swimming by the second week of August yet the pool wasn't filled until the third week in September. We were told that the entire project was delayed because it took longer to get the large decorative jump rocks formthe waterfall. We questioned how rocks would hold up the plaster and electrical work. We had to micromanage every aspect to get any information out of them. People didn't show up as expected. Nobody notified us of the constant delays. They told us of their very strict installation protocol in the beginning....dig on Monday's, rebar on Tuesday, concrete on Wednesday...and so on. They seemed like they had it all figured out over decades in business. Constant excuses over subcontractors problems brings us to where we are today- We have pool equipment that's nearly 100 feet from the pool, behind my bedroom wall. The pump distance is too far from the pool to provide enough suction for our sweeper. We were told that the equipment would be whisper quiet. It's not. I can hear the pump outside behind my headboard. The installation manual that I was handed by an employee clearly states that thicker piping needs to be used at that distance for proper suction. I've had to adjust the valves several times per day to get the sweep to run. It stops randomly because of the lack of suction and the pump makes horrible sucking noises as it struggles to pull water that far. I was told that it would cost a thousand dollars to try to fix the problem, after I just paid sixty for the pool project alone. I have no paperwork from these guys regarding anything as far as inspection reports, and don't even know how much water my pool holds. The highlight was his employee telling me to go to the store to get concentrated hydrochloric acid to stabilize the PH in the water. You would think that they would take care of that $5 of ACID for the price they charge. Dangerous for customers who don't know what they're doing! The whole setup looks unprofessionally installed with conduit sticking out of the dirt because the cords for the pool lamp were not long enough to reach the electric panel. It is now October. We started this in June. He is still taking on new jobs instead of finishing old ones. Last count, he said he had fifteen more pools to do! Playground: Harley insisted that he had time to lay some on site base rock and playground chip round my jungle gym. He awkwardly asked me if I wanted that "turn-key". Big words for the Country, but yes, ok. Ended up with compacted base rock and 1" of the 3"s of wood chips in place. The rest was left in a pile for me to do by hand and wheebarrow. He came by and saw what his crew didn't finish and commented annoyed at them that they would leave half the work. I just recently got a bill of 400 for that half-job. I still don't have a timeline of when my concrete will be finished. I still have to deal with them regarding the pool pump. Before I realized how much work they were taking on, I offered him more work landscaping. He insisted that he had the time and that he'd be glad to do everything that I wanted. I even asked if he was sure, or I would do it myself. He insisted that he would have someone available. NONE of it was taken care of. The recent rain storm washed out my whole backyard because I waited for someone else instead of doing it myself. He has one part time electrician who is overworked and can't keep up, breaks appointments without notice. Harley has nothing to offer as far as recommending other trades such as pool fence guys. They never bothered to finish installing an outlet out by the pool, just left the conduit sticking out of the ground on both ends, and billed me for that part. No suggestions on automation, LED light options for lower power consumption, decorative lighting around the pool, NOTHING! Dissapointed, aggravated, and unfortunately angry with the whole process. Update: Leighty told us that he and business partner Bill Bell would be by to look at fixing the pump system "in a bit" yesterday. He told me to leave my gate unlocked. Over 24 hours later, no show, no call, no text. He didnt respond to my text today, and didnt pick up the phone when my wife called him.

I was really unhappy with him. He was really bad and he is very well known in the area. It was about two years ago and he did patio work for me but he did not seal it like he was supposed to and it discolored terribly. He never took my phone calls, I could never get a hold of him. He also left a lot of aluminum flashing that was supposed to be cut off. He left that and the patio ended up fading into a brilliant pink color and it was supposed to be Terracotta. I had to go to his home to confront him about coming and putting a seal on it because I called the coloring company for the concrete and they told me he did not seal it right, that is why it changed color. I was just short of taking him to court and he finally sent some one to correct it. He had the nerve to stand in my back yard and tell me that I was a pain in the ass and difficult. I had to tell him to get off my property if he was going to talk to me that way. It cost about seven thousand and it was very expensive. I went with him because of the impressive pics on the brochure that they sent. They did not clean up very well and he left pieces of concrete in my yard. He also left aluminum flashes that could have cut the kids since they were constantly messing with it. When I went to his home/office he yelled at me and told me to go to hell. He was supposed to come back and do a step, I paid him with the intention of him coming back and doing that, but he wouldn't answer any calls. He did make it the way I wanted him to, so in that regard I was satisfied with that. His professionalism and attitude was terrible. The price was exorbitant. I was satisfied with everything except the actual layout. The payment also included making a sidewalk, I asked him to pick out some rose bushes, which they did, and put concrete there but they didn't. I called him to tell him that they had left out about five feet of side walk and he sent me an email that he was not coming back to do that unless I was paying him extra , because he was finished with my job. I tried to remind him that I had it in writing. He said all that I told him to do was take out the rose bushes, not to lay concrete. I said that that was the reason why I asked him to pick out the roses. I would never use him again.

See above. Overall it was a very stressful, expensive, unsatisfactory experience. I am disappointed with my patio and H..Leighty.