California Pools was the worst company to use. The sales Kimo Horn, that helped up and filled out all the paperwork, contract with us had an old color chart of plaster color so it ended up that our plaster color was completely different. We called the company and they insisted that we were mistaken and did not want to do anything to fix the problem. Kimo Horn the manager came out to see the pool and said that is the color that was on our contract and that they were not going to do anything to fix the problem. We told everyone we talked to at the company that "that was not the color we picked" even when they left and the pool was filling up with water I called the main office to let them know it didn't look right. Finally they figured it out that in fact we were not the ones that were wrong it was them, after they insisted that we just changed our minds once we saw the color and wanted a different one. That held up us being able to use our pool for a few weeks until they could fit us in even though it was their error. We asked for a specific remote system that we had at our last house, Kimo Horn had pictures from the brochure with the name, model number the manufacture uses etc of the remote that we supplied him with and gave him copies of all the information on the remote, he said he had to check to make sure they could get it and followed up with us to say they can get it and all was good. They installed the wrong electronic system/remote. Again we were on the phone numerous times talking to Kimo Horn and he told us again they will not be doing anything to fix it due to the remote number that was listed on our contract. We explained we don't know what numbers their company uses, how are we to know that it was wrong after we talked to Kimo Horn. My husband and Kimo Horn touched on the subject of small claims court and the B.B.B. Reports (Kimo Horn was insisting that they had none and my husband had it pulled up in front of him that in fact they had numerous; at that point Kimo Horn said he needed to check to see if we were asking for a specific remote system, how conveniently he said he knew nothing of it. We ended up faxing in paperwork to Kimo Horn that he filled out in his handwriting saying that we wanted the system that we had at our last house, to prove that again we were telling the truth as they insisted we must have been mistaken. We still never got the one we requested and ended up with a model they claimed was an upgrade but isn't as good as the one we had asked for. It was a newer system they were starting to use. The remote did not work so they sent someone out to fix it and the person that showed up knew nothing about the remote or system and was on the phone the whole time trying to get walked through how to fix it. He admitted to me that he didnt know why they sent him to fix it because he didnt know how to.in the end they figured out that the remote was bad and ordered us a new one. They never told us or our neighbor that the remotes can control the pool even a few houses down so for a about a month we were controlling our neighbors pool and they were controlling ours until we figured out what was going on so again someone from California Pools had to come out to fix the problem.in our contract we asked for tile to outline our steps (for our kids safety, easy to see) they came out to plaster and realized that they did not have the tile for the steps so we were told they could leave the tile off and do the job that day or come back in a few weeks to finish the job again when they could fit us back into their busy schedule. They had our heater delivered to a house on the next street over from us and it was lost so that held up the job more until they researched it and found out that they had listed the wrong address down. They hooked our pool and spa lights to the same switch so we can not have only the spa lights on if we are not using the pool at night we have to light up the whole thing, so much for romantic nights in the spa. They installed the electric box where we asked them NOT to due to a fence that we knew we were putting up, again on the contract and pool blue print plan so they had to come move it after they already installed it all on a big post so now we have the post still in the concrete. One of the rocks from our waterfall broke off so they had to come back out and re-attach it. Our plaster is now very faded from the original darker color to light gray just after three years. I would never use this company again even if they were the only ones out there.
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