Kirk's Pool and Hearth

Over the summer, my wife and I bought a new home. As part of the concessions, the previous owners were to have the pool open and ready before the closing date. The previous owner contacted Kirk’s Pool and Hearth to do that work. Even though our closing date was pushed back a week, they were unable to complete the agreed upon work by the agreed upon date. Kirk’s argued that money should have been set back in escrow for the work…even though the reason that it was not (as it was with other agreed upon work which was known would not be completed before closing) was their own incompetence to complete the work by the agreed upon date before the closing. Given that they were unable to complete the work in a timely manner, it required more chemicals to complete the job. The previous owner sent Kirk’s a check, but for a lesser amount than Kirk’s would have liked. He felt, for some reason, that his only recourse was to sue my wife and I for the inflated bill (which was inflated because of Kirk’s incompetence). The case was dismissed, because it was completely baseless. Just beware, if you do business with this person, this is the sort of thing that he thinks that this is an acceptable way to do business and treat people.