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    Business ProfileforLightning Pools & Pavers

    Pool Contractors

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    2/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

    Customer Reviews are not used in the calculation of BBB Rating

    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    This company offers swimming pool renovations, and new construction.

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    1800 Salem Court, Dunedin, FL 34698
    BBB File Opened:
    8/1/1997
    Years in Business:
    29
    Business Started:
    7/1/1994
    Date of New Ownership:
    10/1/2002
    Business Incorporated:
    9/26/2002
    Licensing Information:
    This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
    BBB records show a license number of CPC1458401 for this business, issued by Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. The expiration date of this license is 8/31/2024.

    These agencies may include:

    Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation

    2601 Blairstone Rd

    Tallahassee FL 32399

    (850) 487-1395

    http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/

    BBB records show a license number of I-CPC1458401 for this business, issued by Pinellas County Construction License Board

    These agencies may include:

    Pinellas County Construction License Board

    7887 Bryan Dairy Road Suite 133

    Largo FL 33777

    (727) 582-3100

    https://www.pcclb.com

    Type of Entity:
    Limited Liability Company (LLC)
    Alternate Business Name
    • PM Enterprises, LLC
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. George "Chip" Payson, Owner

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. George "Chip" Payson, Owner
    Additional Contact Information

    Fax Numbers

    • (727) 447-9005
      Primary Fax

    Phone Numbers

    Industry Tip

    BBB Tip: Hiring a pool contractor

    Customer Complaints

    1 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    08/07/2022

    Complaint Type:
    Customer Service Issues
    Status:
    Answered
    Lightning Pools installed a pool with final finish installed in August of 2021. The installation took double of time and issues. Site manager left the company during installation, then start up guy left as well. Right away we identified that pool finish was incredibly rough. We have everything documented in many emails. Kids are getting cuts from the finish often. We have pictures and witnesses of this fact. I have engaged StoneScapes for their 10 year warranty ON mini pebble finish as well. The representative that inspected agreed that finish is bad and should not as rough. On July 28, 2022, owner, Chip finally after months and months shows up to fix a bad StoneScape mini pebble finish. He drained my pool without pulling a ground water plug, fixed some small percentage of the issue at best... The assistant and him worked for an hour sharing a single little handheld 3/ 3.5 inch disk polisher and called me to inspect and then got upset when I said that hardly anything is fixed, proceeded to tell me how I am unreasonable, how they will not do anything else and pool is beautiful and I quote "not that bad" in rough parts. My kids have cuts from the finish bc the shells and stones stick out so much and if you hit a sharp corner with wet, water saturated skin CUTS & SCRAPES HAPPEN. They are small cuts and scrapes but there is BLOOD!! THIS is after we tried to fix it underwater and sanded each area they tell me cuts have happened. Cuts are mostly on their feet an toes, but fingers as well and my niece got a cut on her wrist. He tried to tell me that THIS IS NORMAL! ITS what you expect of mini pebble finish & kids he said. They basically drained my pool without real plan to fix it nor intent. Draining the pool cost 100s of dollars in water and chemicals. We then engaged his sub contractor/installer to come and do more polishing for a fee, he charged us $500 without doing much of improvements on the finish or the bad area that by the pool skimmer.
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    Customer Reviews

    1 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Dave T

    2 stars

    07/04/2022

    This Lightning Pools is one of the most Unprofessional Companies I have dealt with. After delays , no shows and no calls, we finally have a completed pool
    I have emailed several times for a Tech to come look at the finish as it has some unusual shade differences.
    I simply asked for a recommendation on how to correct the area
    No call backs and no return emails
    Warranty?? I have serious concerns that any Warranty will be honored
    Shameless Company

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