So you want to be in the pool business,huh!

WOW! What a mess! Looks like a backdrop for a horror flick- LOL!

 

This guy was protecting the turtle.... you got LUCKY!





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Ewwwww.
Thats gross. But hey,looks better when its cleaned

 

Wow. I guess its not all hot chicks wanting you to be their pool boy, then, Don?

 

The before pics are strangely beautiful.

 

The sad part is that the pool is (was?) obviously very nice. Unreal that people would let it get to that.

 

+1

 

Please tell me you didn't pump all that nasty pool water out into the sewers.....

 

Is my pool not supposed to look like that? I am probably OK my turtles arent quite that big.

 

Whew!! I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that.

 

+1

I like the "jungle" pic...

 

Wow, what a mess!!! The "after" pics looks great!

My wife and I went back to Arkansas a couple of weeks ago to see our sons who still live there. We sold our house there when we moved to Texas in 2008. Apparently the people who bought that house from us didn't make their mortgage payments and obviously never cleaned the pool either. It was foreclosed on a while back and they were forced out a few months ago. We had heard from friends and old neighbors that the new owners had been booted out by the sheriff, so we went to check it out. The pool looked a lot like this one - black water and covered in moss and algae. Definitely a mosquito problem. Very sad. I think what p!ssed us off the most is that we had just spent $20K remodeling the kitchen right before putting the house on the market in 2008, and we sold the house so cheap we had to write a check at closing to pay it off. Then these savages come in and wreck the place. It made my wife cry to see it like that.

 

When all is said and done it looks like it will be a beautiful setup but a horror to maintain with all the surrounding vegetation, fantastic cleaning job though kudos. Looking forward to some pics after everything is completed and it could be a great promo for your pool service.

 

Dibs on the turtle unless Don & Carolyn made it the official shop mascot.

 

No Mama turtles at the shop, Cletus J Clyde, Head Of Security, will not allow any more critters - but your welcome to come for dinner if you like . . . .

 

Looking at the pics, I notice three things Don...

1) I wonder if it smelled like Turtle Creek when they drained most of the water out of HP... it may look nice and green, but did it smell like stagnate water?

2) I wonder how many mosquitos were breeding in there?

3) I wonder how you made it out alive!

 

Nice cleanup job. Some friends of ours had a pool they didn't use and let it turn to that a bit...it had a turtle as well (soft shell and larger). Occasionally they would pour chlorine in there for whatever reason and the turtle loved the stuff...it would bathe in it as they poured it in, lol. One day it got out of the pool and its skinned started to peel off so it went back in...so weird. They eventually re did the entire thing when they sold the house (turtle had died by then).

Nice work.

 

That is simply incredible!

If possible when you post the update pictures, can you include more of the backyard so we can have more of an idea of the surrounding area?

My friend's father-in-law (my friend works for him, as does his daughter) has owned a pool business here in Houston for several decades and I've never heard any stories remotely close to this. Congrats, you win!

 

Very cool pics, how much would a clean up like this normally run, if you do not mind me asking?

 

that is a really nice pool once you get it cleaned up and running. I bet when new that pool ran $50K+.

I have family members who when their youngest wanted to become a marine biologist that they allowed him to turn the pool into a ecosystem on purpose. Yup!

Anyways- after he got done with college the pool was restored back. Hopefully he learned a lot from it.

 

Try $150K lol