Wichita contractor ordered to pay over $63,000 after pool system breaks

A Wichita man has been ordered to pay more than $63,000 after he “installed an inferior” salt water system in a woman’s pool and then didn’t respond to the woman’s complaints after the system broke or to court summons, according to Sedgwick County District Court records.

Wesley Petty, also known as Jon Petty, and doing business as Huckleberry Maintenance and Huckleberry Pool, had the default judgment ordered against him in December after not responding to the court.

The judgment includes about $2,013 to the Wichita woman that he did work for, $1,000 in investigative fees and $60,000 for three violations of Kansas Consumer Act outlined in the Oct. 15, 2025, filing in court.

There are also $197 in court fees, for a total of $63,209.69.

The order also prohibits Petty from doing business in Kansas until the judgment is paid in full.

Here is what court documents allege happened:

He told the woman he was installing a salt water system that cost around $1,800 and billed her for that unit. He installed the system around May 2023.

The next summer, in July 2024, the “salt system began overheating and stopped operating.” The victim then learned he had “installed an inferior” salt water system that actually cost around $600.

The woman asked for a refund, but Petty did not respond. The woman then filed a complaint with the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office in November 2024.

Petty was contacted by an investigator in March 2025 and offered to replace the victim’s broken salt water system with a new one by May 5, 2025, but was told the woman had already hired another contractor to install the system she had originally ordered.

Petty did not provide a refund or replacement system. He also did not respond to a court summons.