KEN BANKOFF'S HISTORY

Ken Bankoff is the founder of UltraGuard Architectural Coatings, the parent company for the UltraGuard swimming pool resurfacing products. Ken has been working in the pool industry his entire life. He has nearly 50 year of experience. Through the years Ken has seen that various pool resurfacing gimmicks like fiberglass, plaster, and gelcoats that have come and gone. Ken himself was once an installer of these types of swimming pool refinishing applications. After watching product after product fail within a few years, Ken decided to find a better solution.

Ken Bankoff spent years meeting with scientists, chemical engineers and other pool experts in search of a better solution. When Ken discovered that the leading wet area industrial coating was actually a two-part epoxy that forms a chemical bond to the substrate he decided to test it out. Ken did an application on his own pool that held up surprisingly well. After this he met with a chemical company to private brand an industrial epoxy for the pool industry.

Ken spent years as a contractor installing the UltraGuard product until he realized that it was so easy to do that people should be allowed to do it themselves and save thousands of dollars in contractor fees. In 2004 Ken Bankoff took the UltraGuard DIY product online and has since sold over 2,000 units! Ken’s competition has tried to discredit the UltraGuard product but none of their claims seem to stick (sort of like their products). Search the Internet for information about UltraGuard and you will see the vast majority of users are thrilled beyond belief.

There are competitors who have tried (unsuccessfully) to discredit UltraGuard with personal attacks on Ken Bankoff. If you have spoken to them we encourage you to read the information below.

These are indeed harsh times. Manufacturers, banks, homeowners, and businesses are all trying to survive. Certain unethical, ruthless business people think they must misrepresent, slander and lie about their competition. The article below addresses some personal, very personal problems that I have had with such companies and business people. They have slandered my good name. This has now become my personal crusade.

Two specific companies have tried for the past 20 or more years to get me out of the pool business. The tactics they are using are comparable to hard-core politics. They could not put me out of business because of the many referrals of my former customers and the blessing of the Better Business Bureau.

They have even posted an article on the Internet about me that is slanderous and 90% lies. I am sure they are losing business to UltraGuard with the Poolrestoration website that tells the truth abouttheir products. Can you really trust these people and the product they sell, when they cannot say anything negative about the UltraGuard product but resort instead to negative and slanderous lies about me?

The pool industry is just like politics. Manufacturers, distributors, contractors will do anything or say anything to get your business. As in politics, they will try to ruin the personal reputation of their competition especially CEO’s of that company.

Every pool company in the country has skeletons in their closets. The larger companies have a larger the potential for skeletons. I have had to acknowledge my skeletons in the past 22-23 years because of competition. It is never good when a company is forced out of business because they could not stand behind their warranties. Monolithic Fiberglass Restoration Inc. and UltraGuard Pool Inc. dba.UltraGuard Fiberglass Pools in the early 80’s were among the first and largest companies to introduce fiberglass restoration and new fiberglass construction in the north east. As a professional installing fiberglass, we were plagued by major failures. I do not believe any homeowner should attempt the installation as a DIY. Many contractors, nationally installing fiberglass have gone out of business because of the many inherent problems with fiberglass.

In five short years, both of my companies had to go out of business due to the many problems that are inherent in fiberglass applications. To maintain my good name with the Better Business Bureau and be able to stay in business, I was able to satisfy 98% of my pre-existing problems. This was done by either giving full refunds or by doing jobs over.  In satisfying these customers, I used my own personal funds. I also acknowledge that I had two lawsuits that had to be settled in court with a financial payout. I believe this is remarkable for any pool company that has been in business for 48-years. To have only two lawsuits considering the sheer number of problems I had to satisfy is quite remarkable. It should also be noted that there are no outstanding judgments against me or any of my companies.

Everything I say now and everything on my website is 100% true. Remember, the UltraGuard Challenge has been up for 5-years and not one manufacturer of any coating has ever challenged me because they know what I claim is true and accurate.

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