Following our disagreements with Klodian about the washing of the facades, our confidence in his honesty and fairness was dented enough for us to decide that we wanted to use a different contractor for the swimming pool. We also had concerns about his attention to detail and quality of finishing.
Today, we met with Michele Gigli and Gino to discuss our pool project and to find out when Michele would be available to do the work. Michele was recommended to us by David and Carol and created their swimming pool. He did the work on our second floor bathroom to a good standard.
We expected we’d have to wait till next year as Michele is always busy. He suggested he could start mid-April or at the start of May and that the job would take about 2 months. That gives us a pool by June(ish) which seems reasonable.
We agreed that he will return with the guy he wanted to use for the excavations and someone from his preferred swimming pool supplies company. Once he has their input, he’ll put together a quote.
It seems that you can do swimming pool work in one of two ways:
- Engage a swimming pool company who will use the builder of their choice
- Engage a builder who will use a swimming pool company of their choice
We are happy to go with option 2 and to give the work to Michele provided his quote isn’t ridiculously high. We have the quote from Klodian to compare with as a sanity check. One big plus for us is that we will build on our relationship with a builder who lives in our village.