Gulf Breeze, FL asked in Construction Law for Florida

Q: If a pool company damaged your pool while they were hired to do upgrade on the pool - are they liable?

The pool company was hire to upgrade my pool which had only out dated tile. While doing the work they damaged areas of my pool, re-did a water fall which now does not flow correctly and also tile work was not done to standards - I refused to pay the last portion until they fixed the issue - not they will not fix issue until I pay entire remaining balance AND they have sent me a lawyers letter stating they HAVE finished the work - but they clearly having - cost to repair is now more then what I owe them... what do you think of this situation -?

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A: I think you had better negotiate with them or they will be filing a lien and a foreclosure of the lien. Get a construction lien attorney.

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