General Info:
Tucker has been building pools since 1972. After meeting Marie and getting married they went into a business together but Tucker was not real happy with the new business of owning a restaurant. He missed digging in the dirt. One day in late May they were talking about exactly what Tucker did when he was building pool. Tucker explained to Marie how first he had to dig up the yard to level it. Then build the pool. Marie joked and said ok we will call our new company Dig-M-Pools. They both laughed and Tucker added right "U-Buy-M - We-Dig-M". Marie took a napkin and jotted down the name and the phrase. Pretty much that was the end of the conversation. The next day Marie took the napkin to a printer & had some cards made. She called the newspaper and ran an ad to build pools. As the day went on Marie forgot to mention to Tucker she had ordered cards & put an ad in the paper. The phone rang, it was a woman who wanted to know how much it cost to put up a pool. Then Marie told Tucker what she had done and that there was a woman on the phone who actually wanted a pool installed. This is a true story. The phones started ringing and DigM was formed. Tucker & Marie realized the people were buying their pools from a company called Nichols Pools. They decided to go to Nichols to see if they could get some work. They met with Bud Nichols,an owner. He was open to the idea we could be added to his list of installers and maybe we would get some calls. We were the 14th on the list! Marie would go out with Tucker and the crew and build pools every day, 7 days a wk. She knew absolutely nothing about pools so this was a great experience. After working all day on the crew Marie would come home and answer the calls that were on the answering machine. We were very busy even though we were 14th on the list. In 3 yrs the list only had 3 installers left. Finally DigM was at the top. When the economy was good DigM was installing over 2000 pools a year! DigM started in PA. we expanded to NJ, DE, MD, VA, FL. DigM actually made a trade out of building above ground pools. They are highly recognized in the above ground pool industry. In 1979 The National Spa and Pool Industry actually wrote an article in their magazine acknowledging our achievement of making installation of above ground pools a recognized trade industry. This was the beginning of a new pool installer era. We are the oldest above ground pool company in this trade. We have been around a long time. Tucker is still out building pools every day. Tucker always says he is a very fortunate man to have found something he could make a living at and enjoy doing it too. Nothing gives him great pleasure as watching the smiles on his customers faces when their pool is finished. And so goes the story of how DigM got started.