POOLS BY ANDREWS

Description of Work: Provided a quote for a gunite pool installation

Description of Work: They built the pool and take care of it once a week.

Description of Work: Installed a 20 x 40 pool in 1085

Description of Work: Priced additional railings

Description of Work: Pool by Andrews have done a wonderful job on a in ground heated free form gunite pool for us. We are very satisfied with the progress and the results. Many thank!!!

Description of Work: I contacted 6 different companies for our pool , Pools by Andrews were great , they did what they said they would and we are still delighted with our pool 6 years on .

Description of Work: Pools by Andrews built our inground gunite pool and hot tub. They coordinated with the electrician and gas installers and generally project managed the entire process.

Description of Work: We had a pool originally installed by Andrews back in 1970 which lasted for 40 years with a coping replacement and some masonry work done during that time period. We were having some water loss which was increasing to a few inches a day, and over the winter of 2010, most of the water drained out from leaks. I called the company and they sent a salesman down to look at the pool and what work it needed. The pool is a gunite pool with a hot tub built into one end. With several of my children and their friends always using the pool, we decided to expand the hot tub to hold more people. The initial quote was to redo the hot tub, redo the gunite on the walls, and replaster the pool for about $28 K. After an inspection of the plumbing, they found multiple leaks throughout the system and we had to replace all the plumbing, adding a few more thousand dollars to the project. Since the plumbing was redone, I upgraded the pump to a larger unit and the filter from a sand to a cartridge filter. I also painted the pool with rubber pool paint two years prior and that had to be blasted off with a very high powered water blaster in order to replaster the pool, which cost $2500/day for the machine and crew and it tool 1.5 days to do the job. In addition, electrical work had to be done for the new light, pump system and air pump for the spa cost another $2 K. Before everything was done, it was close to $40 K from start to finish, including a mesh cover. The pool came out terrific and the only water loss is from evaporation. If anything, when it rains heavily, I have to pump water out of the pool. Over the winter of 2011, we had a lot of snow, cold and ice. The pool came through without any problems but two coping tiles were damaged by the freezing temperatures and ice. I contacted the company and they sent over a crew withing 2 weeks and replaced the two tiles in a few hours which was covered by the warranty. My only complaint was with the hot tub, we had problems with the air blower being too strong for the distance between the blower and spa, resulting in a "boiling pot of water" affect where water bubbled over the pool side and soaked the deck. A smaller blower was installed and though it was serviced over the summer 2-3 times by the service company, it never worked right. At the end of the season after the pool was drained the 18 inches, the service tech realized one of the jets wasn't set up right and fixed the plastic insert. This spring, between the insert being fixed and the air blower having a relief valve put on it to divert some air away from the pool, the bubbles work fine. The only problem is the noise of the air blowing while the blower is on. We're still addressing this issue.

Description of Work: INSTALLATION OF INGROUND SWIMMING POOL.