My Dad Finished Repairing My Boss’s Pool and Was Refused Payment, Then One Look at the Water Told Him Exactly What to Do - Page 2

Dad began Monday morning.

The job took nine days.

Every evening, he called me.

We had spoken almost every night since my mother passed away six years earlier.
During those calls, he told me about the pump.

The damaged pipework.

The filtration system.

The calcium buildup around one particular section of underground plumbing.

On the ninth afternoon, he called.

“It’s finished.”

“You sound proud.”

“It’s good work.”

He told me to stop by.

So I did.

The transformation was incredible.

The water was perfectly clear.

The waterfall was running.

The spa was circulating properly.

Everything looked new again.

I called Dad from the driveway.

“It looks beautiful.”

“Yes,” he said.

Then he paused.

“It does.”

Two days later, Melissa Emory refused to pay him.

Melissa was Richard’s wife.

According to Dad, she called the $7,800 invoice ridiculous and offered $3,000 instead.

Dad reminded her that the work had already been approved.

She argued that only Richard had signed the original estimate.

That was technically true.

But Dad had another document.

Before beginning work, he always asked property owners to sign a work authorization referencing the original estimate.

Richard had signed it.

So had Melissa.