Athens Plumbing & Well Service
About us
The family-owned Athens Plumbing & Well Service has been providing excellent plumbing services for more than 60 years. Our highly trained plumbers are prepared to handle all your plumbing needs.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Plumbing Contractors, Septic Tank Cleaning & Repairing, Water Well Drilling & Service
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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When we called Athens Plumbing we got a person on the phone, and not an answering machine. They got us an appointment quickly and within only a few days of our call. They let us know that billing started as soon as they left the business so we were paying for travel time as well. The two plumbers showed up on time.
The issue is that we had contamination in our well and we wanted to solve the problem. We knew that municipal water would solve it and wanted to know how much that would cost, but we also wanted to know what our options were and really what was going on with our well.
Their first recommendation was that we needed an in-line water treatment system. From our perspective, if we wanted treated water we would just get municipal water. We wanted to know why our well was contaminated and if we could fix it. They said not really. They then noticed that our water supply pipes to our house were on the exterior of our house. They said they could bury them around the house to help with freezing. They recommended augering underneath our back porch, which they said was admittedly expensive.
When we asked about hooking up to municipal water they said they could dig us a deep well instead of the shallow one we had. They said it would solve our problems. We let them know that we didn't want a new well - we either wanted our current well to work or to use municipal water. They said that we could treat it quarterly (or more), put in a test system, or they could install a new line... but if they installed a new line our pipes would freeze so really we needed to get more work done.
They never closely inspected the wellhead and only upon explicit prompting did they remove the wellhead and measure our well. Others had come in and said that our wellhead wasn't sealed (just a slab of concrete over a big hole with gaps everywhere) which probably led to the contamination.
It seems these individuals could have solved our problem, however, it seemed that they were recommending more than what we needed. Pursuing them instead of other competitors probably would have meant we had safe drinking water. We just would have paid a lot more and maybe with not as sensible as a solution.
They were trustworthy enough just not with being dollar-wise.
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