The nature of water well drilling, when the next guy working with cheaper parts and materials can always undercut your bids, pushed columnist Wayne Nash back to his roots in the oilfields. Source: iStock
The problem, and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it, is money. When I bid a water system for a man building a new house, he’s never looked at my price and said, “Well, that’s cheap enough, I’ll take two.” He’s also never said, “That’s way too much, I’ll just go without water.” The point is, he is gonna have a well, no matter what it costs. There aren’t any more wells drilled at a discount than there are at a decent margin.