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Tricks of the Trade

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Here are the 4 most used Tricks of The Trade.

1)  Drilling blindly;

1. Driller convinces you to drill anywhere, near a tree, valley, near electricity to save money or use water witching in which he knows in all cases you are drilling blindly.
2. Normally up to 1500 feet in depth.  Around a $35K piece tag.
3. When no water is received, to get paid and come on as a nice guy, driller will offer the disappointed client, a 10% + discount.
4. Making the client comfortable to write the check.
5. 10% discount, is $3,500.oo.   Client is happier and after some friendly chat driller also makes an offer to drill the next hole at a discount.
6. Client writes check and thinks he has a friend.  BUT!

• Driller knows the odds of selling you an intangible;
• Driller knows that he gets $35k for deception, minus a kickback.
• If driller did this 10 times, that is $350K in 2 months of work.
• Happily refunds 10%, $35K.
• Takes homeowners for $315K.      

This is a good scam technique for dishonest water well drillers.

2)  To get paid:

• Driller wants to get paid after convincing the homeowner to accept water-witching or drill at a location that produced a few gpm if any gallons per minute at all are received.
• Each vertical foot holds one (1 1/2) gallon of water.
• At 1 1/2 gpm, over night in 12 hours, that’s 1380 gallons of water seepage into the well.
• Driller will let the well fill up over night.
•  In the morning Driller CONTROLS air pressure to control the flow of water pushed out of the hole showing you 3, 5, maybe 20 gpm flow out of the 1500 gallon volume.
• You happily pay him for the well hole and than a pump system.
• Client switches on pump, pump shuts off, than cycles, well goes dry within a few hours or so.
• When you try to fill up your water tank, that is when you know the driller took you for a fool.

    Excuses given;

• We were probably in a pocket of water and now it is depleted.
• We had an minor earthquake last night and it closed off the fracture.
• I did not guarantee water in the contract.

NEVER PAY anything until you know that you can fill

up your tank in ONE PUMPING period continuously.

BEST:

Have an independent pump person install the pump.

Recover:

If you are disappointed with your well’s output you can get a new well for free or a refund.

Example:

• Ramona driller Aspen, his client took him to small claims court.
• Judge’s order was for Rick Aspin to pay back the full amount.
• Tens of thousand, small claims court.

   3)  Depth of drilling:

• Driller stating they went down to 800 feet and all they drilled to was 500 feet.
• Example: Ramona driller called another driller to put a pump into a well stating it       was 800 feet deep.  New driller could only get the pump down to 500 feet.
• Well was never drilled down to 800 feet.

   4)  Inexperienced driller not experienced to drill into water zones to develop your           well to full potential:

• Driller stating that they hit very hard rock and there is no need to drill deeper.
• Reason driller stated this:
• Driller did hit hard rock and did not have the tooling (talent) to drill deeper.
•      Or if they hit a high degree of fracturing, a good fracture zone.
• Good water collects in major fracturing and the driller knows that he is not capable to drill because the water system might collapsed and he did not want to get stuck.

   5)  This action is literally screwing the homeowner:

• Driller switches over to mud drilling.
• States that they encountered rocks or boulders that they cannot drill past.
• Convinces the homeowner that he has to switch over to mud drilling.
• Will cost 300 percent more for the drilling job.
• But the driller still cannot drill past that footage.   Happens.