{"id":37400,"date":"2014-04-23T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=37400"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T18:40:01","slug":"pool-company-puts-customers-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/pool-company-puts-customers-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool Company Puts Customers First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, Misty Tausaga discovered one major downside to having a pool: Her family had trouble finding a pool-cleaning company that provided the level of service they expected. Remembering these challenges, Tausaga and husband Livi launched Splash Pool Cleaning in 2010 to provide top-quality workmanship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to stand out by giving quality, not quantity,&#8221; explains Tausaga. &#8220;That is our biggest goal: just to give the best quality we can.&#8221;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Based out of the couple&#8217;s home in Kaneohe, Splash Pool Cleaning offers regular cleaning, maintenance and pressure washing. In addition, it offers repairs, including fixing filters and motors. One of the company&#8217;s specialities has become fixing what is known as green pools, which is a pool that has been overrun with algae. The problem can be a tricky one to solve and often requires draining the entire pool, but Splash Pool Cleaning has discovered a way to treat a green pool without draining it.<\/p>\n<p>The company has close to 40 regular customers, but it chooses to keep its operation small. It&#8217;s comprised of Tausaga, who oversees the business end; Livi, the primary pool serviceman; and her sister, Tracie Pundyke, who handles accounting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the only way that we can make sure that we get our customer service right on,&#8221; Tausaga explains.<\/p>\n<p>The company started small but picked up quickly &#8211; a growth Tausaga attributes to its quality customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Ahuimanu resident Tara Takekawa, for one, has been impressed with Splash&#8217;s level of commitment to cleaning her pool and Jacuzzi once a week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been so consistent. Even when it was storming one day, I thought for sure that they would cancel, but nope, there they were in the rain,&#8221; says Takekawa, who has been a Splash client for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>For Tausaga, providing her community with high-quality service is what keeps her going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a firm believer in customer service, and I love my community that I live in,&#8221; says Tausaga. &#8220;The satisfaction of our customers is primary for us. I really feel that to serve the community is really the utmost reward to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 372-7222 or email splashpoolcleaning@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p><B>coconnor@midweek.com<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, Misty Tausaga discovered one major downside to having a pool: Her family had trouble finding a pool-cleaning company..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":37477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawaii-business-news","category-entrepreneurs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pool Company Puts Customers First - MidWeek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/pool-company-puts-customers-first\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pool Company Puts Customers First - 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