Clearwater Construction

Clearwater Construction Co. Inc. is a full-service in-ground swimming pool company at 43 Grove St in Millis, Massachusetts, run by Steven Turk. It sells, installs, services and repairs pools and says it handles every phase of construction in-house without outside subcontractors. The company's own site says it opened in 1979 and has built more than 900 pools and installed more than 600 liners since, and NBC10 Boston introduced Turk in a June 2022 consumer segment as the owner of a full-service in-ground pool company that does installation and repairs. What customers praise most is continuity. In a May 2023 review a homeowner wrote that Steve Turk and his brother Gary built their pool 31 years earlier on their home builder's recommendation, that it never gave them a single problem in 30-plus years, and that the same crew came back to strip the decking, regrade the yard and fit a new liner, stairs, light, diving board and skimmers. A September 2023 reviewer said a pool installed 12 years earlier had been backed by excellent work, responsiveness and support the whole time. An August 2025 reviewer described Steve and Gary as knowledgeable and fair, guiding customers away from spending where they did not need to. The recent work reviews are about speed. In July 2026 a homeowner who had been through several pool companies — unresponsive at best, incompetent at worst, in their words — said Clearwater turned around a custom liner and a saltwater conversion in a matter of weeks, faster than others took to reply at all. Earlier reviewers in 2024 and 2025 said the crew builds pools right and does not cut corners, and that a pool ran clear with low maintenance after setup. There is a real dissenting account worth reading before hiring. A July 2021 BuildZoom reviewer described a liner-and-coping job on which the new coping sat about three inches proud of the cement with gaps between sections, so the pool could only be entered by stepping over it; they said they went months with an open excavation after paying more than $10,000, that calls went unanswered while they were told the liner was not ready, that crews were twice called off when they asked questions, and that after completion they received two further quotes for work never agreed to. Their conclusion was poor communication and charges that were not broken down into parts and labour. A May 2023 Google reviewer left two stars opening with the line that the company will build you a nice pool. Those are the only two negative accounts on file, both predating the recent run of praise. Credentials need checking yourself. The company's own site claims a Massachusetts Home Improvement License and a Massachusetts State Construction Builders License but publishes no numbers, and BuildZoom says it holds a Home Improvement Contractor license and one other according to the state board, verified as active when BuildZoom last checked. Neither is a registry confirmation. Ask for the licence numbers and confirm them with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, get the coping and deck details specified in writing, and agree the payment schedule and a cost breakdown up front.