Here is a little information about me your AFS contact Eric Watson, my work ethics and some of my qualifications. I am the owner and the engineer and the builder of each and everyone of the WellGuru's that leave this shop!
I have lived in Florida since 1967, We moved down from Conn., I have two Son's now age 21 and 17. My oldest works with me here at AFS full time and He is the shop Manager. He attends every installation with me and has for the last ten years. ( No three day training program with my mechanics ! :) He now builds many of the componants with my system's. He also attends college for industrial engineering and drafting . He is specializing in the "new green technologies" in commerical building for which He just Gradjuated ! He plans on going back in a few months to further His edjucation which He plans on utilizing with our business. My other Son still attends High school and works with us part time when it does not interfere with his edjucation.
When were not working our seventy plus hours filling orders we enjoy deep sea and bridge fishing, boating, camping and archery, on the weekends.
I started my career working as a plumbers apprentise after school at age 9 with my older Brothers Plumbing business, Where else could a kid make $7 digging a 60 foot ditch? By the age of 18 I was working full time as a service plumber and became a licensed in the State of Florida soon after. I have worked on many commerical and residential plumbing projects, i.e. schools and Hospitals industrial fabrication buildings as well as many highrises and Government projects,custom homes track homes etc. I prefered Service plumbing and well water jobs. I worked with well filtration systems both building and troubleshooting while being a service plumber (I would get every job that came in ) . I was fortunate to be trained by the finest filter experts in the State in the early 80's which is where I was handed my platform when He retired. Over the years I have solved numerous problems associated with problem well water, and the flawed products made availiable to Dealers. Being that plumbing was my primary occupation and income I did not have to rely on the typical unreliable equipment to generate my paycheck as others did. I was free to work on engineering the perfect "system" for well filtration to appease my favorite plumbing customers.
Other Dealers wether they realize it or not gather revenue from the generic platforms they pick up from their whoelsalers and it's at the customers exspence and agony ! I was able to stay ethically grounded and developed my working ethics from day one. If you do not engineer your system from the ground up for that paticular well water it will surely fail sooner then later in most situations. Being a Plumber I was able to take my time proven platform and over time and continuiously upgrade it over time until it became almost service free.
With the internet coming up in the early 90's I was one of the very first online well water Dealers to market my Well Guru system to distant customers. I then upgraded it again with my own technology which allows the system be troubleshooted over the internet. If you notice other Dealers cannot offer a "real well water platform" mail order, its some bogus inline filter or incomplete system that does not do much at all for water quality. Today's Well Guru has thousands of hours of Engineering to work for every type of well 100% of the time without me having to be there to service it. Today more then 70% of my work is shipped out of State and it's a real full blown well filtration system !
I get emails every day from
customers and many say "Sorry for the dumb questions but can you answer a few before we buy" One thing you should do wether or not you purchase from Me or anyone else, you should never make a choice of this magnatude unless you feel completely comfortable. Your Dealer should be an "open book" for your needs and answer any and all of your questions. You should not respond to any pressure tactics ! there is no such thing as a "Big Sale" and you have to buy today or we have only on scartch and dent system for the low price of XYn Z don't deal with those types ! or that wil not be the end of your bad feelings it will be the beginning !! No Dealer in this business should make anyone feel stupid, if they cannot bring you up to speed and answer all questions by email (not a Salesman sent to your living room ) you should get all your answers in writing ! A Dealer that will go "sideways" on all His or Her promicess will be the first to call you on the phone. This is because what He sells does not work and when you try and go back and point fingers for a bad remedy He will say that He never said any such thing "You mis understood" Get your answers by email and corospond this way with everything so its in "writing". And the Dealer should not keep moving to "the sale" i.e asking to set an appointment or asking for your credit card or deposits Dont work with those types. You should feel completely comfortable before you buy anything and you should not have any outstanding concerns. I have had some consumers spend a full year looking into my business and making sure I am the one that is going to solve their problem before they ever purchased, while you may not feel you want to wait this long (many wanted it installed yesterday) you should have all the answers that suit you dont let anyone rush you ! thats a sign your dealing with a Bamboozeler if they keep nudging you to the "sale".
While I may not have the most modern web site this means very little, most of the internet Dealers Do not do this full time they may work in another industry and their Wife answers the phone ! Any site that asks you "how many bathrooms " you own to size your system this is a non issue, and its used to get the customer to "self assess" your worth ! if you have only one bathroom they know not to bother to ask for the most money, if you click you have 5 bathrooms your most likely going to get a phone call from the owner when He gets home from His day job.
It all has to do with your water quality and persons living under the roof, dont get Bamboozeled.
What I need from you is a water sample and how many live full time there, and if you have any unuual water usage i.e a Barn with Horses that want good water or boats and motorbikes to wash on weekends this information is useful. I also need to know the size of your water pipe (to provide the final connectors) and what its made of,
i.e 1" pvc which is most typical. With this information I will engineer you your own Well Guru that will be the last system you will ever need. The internet has made it possible for "anyone" to get into this trade and there is a lot of money to be made if your willing to decieve people, and every very few you talk to on here have actually even installed what they market. Installing the wrong filter for the wrong water and building the wrong system for the wrong water can cause your home to load up with bacteria, provide a enviorment condusive for viruses or even cysts . You can also end up consuming much of the filtration media the Dealer used ! (like I said this is a full disclosure site) I dont sugar coat anything . Your paying me to fix your famlies water and you want straight and correct answers my job is to provide answers that represent an actual representation of the situation. That is what I do .
If your platform is poorly Engineered (because the Dealer just buys it from a 19 yr kid counter man) or worked for a Dealer for 2 years and He thinks He's an expert. Then your platform you end up feeding back to you in large quantities nearly everything it filtered from the ground water ! thats right ! if His automated cheap filter fails it will allow Chlorine or any other oxidizer to dissolve the media's and it will end up in your glass of water or frozen in your ice cubes and you wont ever detect it. I remove systems every week that are empty or almost empty this means the customer was fed the "loaded" media little my little over time ! And this media in some cases can be oil stag by products, carbon that holds tons of contaminates in fact I don't think I have pulled into a single driveway and found a system engineered properly, like wise have I ever tested the customers Reverse osmoiss and found it rejecting what it is suppose to ! some are actually showing higher TDS then the tap water .
More about Me and My business and work ethics and some tips when shopping;
I don't run "boiler rooms" (a room full of telemarketers using the phone to sell) those are the Dealers that call you the day you turn your phone on ! They offer a FREE water test (it's more like a big scare tactic) and a soap kit to close the sale they use 2% finance to close thier deals with low payments as the hook ($70 to $300) monthly, which is actually not 2% its 2% of the unpaid balance the same as putting the entire system on a high rate credit card of 29% ! they all do it . They also sell the biggest hunk of garbage you can ever lay eyes on, they sell "good water" only, never talk about equipment ! they dare not go there ! they sell by making you wash your hands under a mini water softener that they clean after each job they rub your hands together they make coffee and tea for lunch you can't get rid of them ! if you don't buy that day they call the shop and ask for that scratch and dent model to see if its been sold yet ? really its the other salesman on His smoke break ! same thing as other in home sales gimmics window and vaccum cleaner salesman do the same pony show,. The Free soap kit they say that you will use to make the money back every month is so horrible it will get moldy in the garage before you use it, and good luck getting the Women of the house to use any of it especially with the shampoo ! All my Jobs come from Referals and the internet and past customers moving to new homes and a repurchase. Anyone calling to test your well or city water hang up and say you bought already !
I have been doing this for three decades and on the internet I have been here since windows 3.1 ! and I dont think you will find a single consumer making a complaint on the internet thats a big testimony in it self if you think about it ?! You cant rob someone for a bad Ronco Onion slicer before you find somone saying somthing bad on the net, and all you have to do is Google it. Even the Fbi uses Google and not there multi million dollar data base ! you cant hide there ! The worst thing you could ever do is ask any company or single workman for His or Her customer referals . If your shopping for a Roofer or Well man or anything in between the worst of the worst will hope you did not scour the internet of call any of the consumer watch Dogs to see if they have complaints , they will hope you ask for the typical five happy customers ! well thats what you will get is five of their happy customers, you will never get the 1500 unhappy customers. Makes a load of sence doesent it ? Recall when the guy that did the pool checked out but the second He got His $7 grand down He wouldent show up again until He spent your money ?
Thats because He gave you the five customers He uses all the time in your area. Likewise those that operate by giving up their valued customers to be called at 10 PM by strangers Will also ask you for 10 of your best friends from your address book when your paying for the job ! these will no longer be your friends when He or She gets done with them. Trust me I have been doing this a long time, I hear these types joling about these topics at water conventions its a racket and it spreads over many trades.
When you do business with me I will never under any circumstances ask you to allow me to give out your address or email or phone to anyone for anyreason ! I dont do it for any reason because there are incredibly crafty new crooks these days, and many are construction theifs and the last thing they want to do is buy a $4000 well filter ! but they do think there entilted to yours ! and even though you spent a few hours making the installation perfect or me , they need only five minutes to cut it all loose ! and toss it in the pickup truck. You dont want anyone knowing you have a "full system" avaliable , and no one should have to make a living off of your back IF they do have to get and give referals to get their business you should get a huge discount.
Well thats a little about me.... and a little about my work ethics and some more Tips on how to choose a Dealer If you decide to go with another outfit or I just cannot do your job in the time frame you desire, or your just in the beginning stages and your shopping and a long way off from a purchace. If you use those tips above you should not get taken in any large purchase.
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Eric Watson
Owner
Aquatic Filter Systems
Home of The Well Guru - Whole Home Well Filtration System
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