Aceman's NJ Pool Build - Beware of Blue Haven Pools North East
They may just build this for you:
Well, hopefully i got your attention! Because if you're looking for another thread slamming a PB, you're in the wrong thread.
After reading this forum for months, my wife & I took the plunge (literally!) this spring and signed a contract for a pool. Special thanks to hawkfive for answering any questions I had along the way and helping me with some invaluable insight! Some background on our selection process I interviewed 4 PBs. 2 nationals, 2 smaller PBs. As you can expect, the smaller PBs came in higher than the 2 nationals, not by much. In the end, I went with a national PB who was pretty much in the middle of the pack pricing wise. What made me choose the PB over the others? The main factor for me was comfort level and when I asked for 6 references, 3 ongoing jobs and 3 from the past fall - I had 6 references within a day, and they all were positive. I cant say the same for the other guys I interviewed - some had them (though it took a week, some didnt). Id like to think Im dangerous with a little bit of knowledge (which I think my salesperson can attest) but in the end Im learned to go with my PBs recommendations they do this for a living, and thus far I havent been disappointed.
Our build started on 5/21, and the pool was started up on 7/17, just under 2 months. Now for those of you who dont live in the NY/NJ/PA area, we had a record 23 days of rain in a 29day span in June, add that to the mix and I still cant believe the pool was completed so quickly! Were there issues along the way - yes, did it require me staying on top of the construction manager, yes. But time after time, when i was told something was going to happen -it did.
My PB, who I ended up finding on this forum, was Blue Haven Pools North East (topfiftybuilder). They delivered everything promised, and more importantly, I found out as we went along, that when they quoted the job, they quoted the job without skimping in areas where i probably wouldn't have noticed pre-contract. For example lighting. I have 3 hayward LED lights in the pool, when my electrician asked what the cable length is on the lights (something I didnt even know to ask prior to contract), their construction manager told me they always order them with 100ft cables. Many companies would of used my request to hit me with an upcharge since the difference in price from 50ft to 100ft is a few hundred dollars per light BHP NE did not. What this allowed me to do was eliminate having an electrical junction box near the deck of the pool, something my friends PB did not do.
Anyway I wont bore you with details, but after spending quite a while reading/hearing about pool build horror stories - i'm very greatful to have picked the company I did. I also think it was huge that we went into this very well educated on what we wanted, most of which we learned from this forum.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away!
Aceman
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