Pool Stores

[tenax]

good points, carl. to your point about experience.yep, pretty easy to tell who's been around the block or not. the guy i know best who is a spa pool installer is amazing..he's not often around, but happened to be yesterday when i picked up my supplies to replumb..he hasn't been to my pool in 2 years but remembered the exact setup, that one of the valves i was replacing was a blade type, the other ball and he said it would cost me about $80 canadian to replace the parts. the owner sent him off to box it up, the guy brought them back and the bill came to $77...had the stuff in 5 minutes and was on my way.(it took longer for my visa approval for the purchase then to talk to the guy and box the parts!)

[Dr. Spike]

I guess for the most part the pool store is like any other retail store. The people working there are doing just that, working there. They don't necessarily know what they are selling, just what they have been told.

I would hope that the owners would know or learn about pools, but what can you do?

I do get some good advice on parts for the owner of one of the stores, great people there too, always remember everything about the pool, and they only know what I told them.