Fired My Water Treatment Guy

   / Fired My Water Treatment Guy #1  

HillStreet

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Did a water test when the house was new and found a few things that needed correcting. Shopper around and found a guy that I liked so we had the talk about "this had better work or you WILL fix it at your cost". It was above $6000.00 so I was not going to have that much into it and still have bad water. After service visits for a few years, he came to the house and put some media in one tank, was there less than 1.5 hours. I had my checkbook and asked him how much: he shrugged his shoulders and said $700. Then he handed me a slip with 3 words on it, and I cannot read what they say---awful penmanship. See ya later Dude!

Come to think of it, on an earlier visit I asked him if I should check for organics or arsenic. He said no, "sometimes you're better off not knowing". This comes from a water treatment guy.
 
   / Fired My Water Treatment Guy #2  
Get your water tested by your state lab. Then deal with it from there. We are in iron country...and also in pine country (high acid). Traditional water softeners treat lime. Yet a lot of people will try to install/maintain a system for that. Shameless I think...
 
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Teejk,

The system was for radon, acid, and iron. He would service it but just got too greedy. Media was about $100 and he was there for 1.5 hours maximum. I think what got to me was when he shrugged his shoulders like he was pulling a number out of the air. Just greed.
 

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