It's raining!
Jun. 10th, 2010 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddictAnd it rained all night - that lovely, gentle, steady rain that we so needed! I asked, and Yah sent :huzzah!:!
Sweet Geek played phone tag with the pool company all day yesterday, to finally find out that they NO LONGER do pool repairs. WTH?? You'd think that *someone* would have told him the 5 times he called to check on the status.....
Seems that the owner (a nice guy) decided to go on sabbatical a while back. He hired a partner...then a few months ago decided he was done with it, and quit. No notice was ever sent - I vaguely remember one about the partner coming on board, but that's it. No one mentioned the no more repairs part....:sigh:
While he had them on the phone (finally! It was 4 PM.....too ridiculous for words!), he brought up my bill. See....last year we had the pump replaced. That was..I forget, but I'm thinking $300 or $400 dollars. A *week* later, the gasket went out, and had to be replaced...and I got ANOTHER bill for $250. For a gasket. That should have been replaced when the pump was. Sweet Geek was pissed, but dropped the ball; after 6 months of outstanding bills, I said screw it, and called to set up a payment plan. I've been whittling it down (yesterday I was 1 full month behind - IOW, I owed $400) slowly, still fuming over the charge that I didn't think I should pay. Oh - and add to it that I was told from the beginning that they didn't charge over the winter, since no one was using the pool and no cleaning would be done...guess what? I still paid the same amount all winter! And have! (Because I was thinking I'd get a nice credit balance built up for repairs and such.)
Anyway, upshot is that she knocked quite a bit off the bill - I now owe $300. (Because there are 2 weeks they've already done of June. Even though she admits the guy HAS NOT cleaned the pool since Jun 1, because the water level is too low. :bah:)
Doesn't matter though - after he hung up the first time with them, he called another company. They are coming out Friday to actually :gasp: FIX the pool! And, they're $12/week CHEAPER. (The receptionist heard me say "Bring a contract!" and cracked up......:lol:)
So, the pool's taken care of (hopefully). Which means the pool party is ON for Sunday, weather permitting. (More rain, please? Thanks!)
Mulling over a few thoughts.....we'll see if any of 'em go anywhere.
Sweet Geek played phone tag with the pool company all day yesterday, to finally find out that they NO LONGER do pool repairs. WTH?? You'd think that *someone* would have told him the 5 times he called to check on the status.....
Seems that the owner (a nice guy) decided to go on sabbatical a while back. He hired a partner...then a few months ago decided he was done with it, and quit. No notice was ever sent - I vaguely remember one about the partner coming on board, but that's it. No one mentioned the no more repairs part....:sigh:
While he had them on the phone (finally! It was 4 PM.....too ridiculous for words!), he brought up my bill. See....last year we had the pump replaced. That was..I forget, but I'm thinking $300 or $400 dollars. A *week* later, the gasket went out, and had to be replaced...and I got ANOTHER bill for $250. For a gasket. That should have been replaced when the pump was. Sweet Geek was pissed, but dropped the ball; after 6 months of outstanding bills, I said screw it, and called to set up a payment plan. I've been whittling it down (yesterday I was 1 full month behind - IOW, I owed $400) slowly, still fuming over the charge that I didn't think I should pay. Oh - and add to it that I was told from the beginning that they didn't charge over the winter, since no one was using the pool and no cleaning would be done...guess what? I still paid the same amount all winter! And have! (Because I was thinking I'd get a nice credit balance built up for repairs and such.)
Anyway, upshot is that she knocked quite a bit off the bill - I now owe $300. (Because there are 2 weeks they've already done of June. Even though she admits the guy HAS NOT cleaned the pool since Jun 1, because the water level is too low. :bah:)
Doesn't matter though - after he hung up the first time with them, he called another company. They are coming out Friday to actually :gasp: FIX the pool! And, they're $12/week CHEAPER. (The receptionist heard me say "Bring a contract!" and cracked up......:lol:)
So, the pool's taken care of (hopefully). Which means the pool party is ON for Sunday, weather permitting. (More rain, please? Thanks!)
Mulling over a few thoughts.....we'll see if any of 'em go anywhere.
