Bearce Pool & Landscape

Bearce Pool & Landscape says it has been working Kingston pools since 1978, and the corporate paperwork backs a long run: its BBB profile lists the business as started in 1978, incorporated in 1980, with Don Bearce as president and about ten employees at 43 Summer St. It carries an A+ BBB grade, though it is not BBB-accredited. What people hire them for is the seasonal cycle — openings, closings, weekly maintenance, water chemistry — plus the bigger jobs around it: liner replacement, in-ground installation, patio and paver restoration, and pool-area landscaping. The written reviews are few and they run 2021 to 2024. The best of them are specific. In a June 2022 review, a new customer said they called during the busy season and had a crew at the house two hours later. Another 2022 reviewer described Jayson and Ryan finding the filter bags broken and worn, replacing them, and having the pool open in a single day, with the office sorting out the chemical balance over two visits. A June 2024 reviewer, new to pool ownership, wrote that the company took their pool from a swamp to clear water and picked up the phone whenever questions came up. On Google the headline sits at 4.3 across 12 ratings. The dissent is worth reading before booking, and it is the most recent comment on file. In October 2024 a customer wrote that nobody was there when they arrived for a closing, that their cover was not tightened down, that they were unsure their lines had been blown out, and that they ended up doing most of the labor themselves — "prepare to pay," they added. One account is not a pattern, but it points at the right question: get the opening and closing scope in writing, item by item, and confirm the price attached to it. The landscape half of the name is real but secondary. BBB files the company under landscape contractors and lists DH Bearce Landscaping, Inc. as an alternate name, and a November 2021 reviewer described Jason Bearce sending a crew the same afternoon to lift storm-felled trees off a shed. Almost everything else — the site, the service list, the reviews — is pools. Right call for a South Shore pool owner who wants one outfit for the whole season plus the hardscape around the water. Ask what an opening and a closing each include, and get the number before the truck rolls.