Perfectly Clear Pools

Beware! Not only is David Rutter a bad pool contractor, he is a dishonest person. It took him 11 months to build our pool and wasn't because of weather delays. It would have taken him longer if we had not stepped in and worked with the sub-contractors directly. There were at least 2 times we did not see or hear from Mr. Rutter for over 2 months. We had to threaten legal action for him to answer. He only communicated through email. We were not allowed to call or text. Then it could take up to 3 weeks for him to answer in an incoherent response. We just wanted to work together but he wanted to battle every step of the way. He ordered the wrong pavers and argued ferociously that is wasn't his mistake and he wasn't going to fix it and he didn't. He put the bubblers in the wrong place on the sun shelf and he refused to move them. Luckily one of his workers did it for me. He would lie to us constantly about the process of the pool. Anytime there was a delay he said it was because of permitting, when in fact he had never even submitted the paperwork to the county. We checked up on him through the county and found out many times that he was lying. He had very strange and erratic behavior. When it finally cam time to do the final surface inside the pool he did not order enough material, the subcontractors scrambled to find more material. The special tile mosaics he had installed were done incorrectly. The subcontractors that were doing the final surface had to correct his mistakes. We never saw him anymore once we started acting as general contractor and dealt and paid the sub contractors directly. The pool has been done for over a month and the grout in the pool tile is coming out. So now we are re-grouting that ourselves. It was never David's fault and he was always the victim. He was very foulmouthed and a bully especially toward me as a woman. He was never apologetic and tried to charge us more money for his mistakes. We went with David because he was a local pool contractor in our area. We were trying to help the local business owner. He does not deserve that support.