We found water here BUT, It's not that good. We need to drill deeper. You ask. How much deeper are you drilling to? This is a common practice among well drillers. They give you a low ball price for minimum footage.. You think you got the best deal in town, then comes the bait & switch. You thought you were getting a shallow cheap well, and now your close to hitting oil and the bill for drilling is almost twice or more what you though you were going to pay. Most drillers will not stop in a shallow formation because shallow wells don't pay motor home payments, DEEP WELLS pay, and pay well.
Another common code word!
We guarantee Our work! Most states do not require drilling companies to hit water. If a drilling company does not hit water, your out the cash and have a 8000.00 or more post hole 400 ft deep. But the bright side is you payed another motorhome payment for the drilling company owner and got him alittle closer to financial freedom. Also remember you sometimes have to hire a 3000.00 lawyer to even get the guarantee to court. Your choice is only who you want to beat you, your lawyer or your driller. Make sure you get references BEFORE JOB STARTS.
We do not know how much it will cost until we finish.
This what we call the drillers blank check. This just lets you know that the price they gave you was just to get in the door. Once they start and you sign the contract you did not even know it, but you just wrote a blank check, and they fill in the amount. How can companies tell you they drilled in your area for 20 years, and 90% success rate, but when ask if what it cost, you only get a ball park figure, and they did not tell you how large the ball park is.
Most drillers charge by the foot.
Thats why when they find water shallow, they keep going, and if they have to they will just run blind casing below the shallow formation so they can get enough feet to make a big check. Its funny for 200 years in the USA the only wells were hand dug wells. Hand dug wells are from 20ft to 60 ft. No one died from shallow well water. But things changed and we now have drilling contractors with payments on 100,000.00 or more of equipment. So shallow wells do not work well on paying big over heads.