AgroVenturesPeru
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Long story short, we had a guy who runs his own well-installation company come out and see about installing a tubular well for us to get clean groundwater for our home. He said there was definitely water, and for an agreed upon price, they'd try "as many times as it would take" to acheive our goal.
We paid, they drilled in three places, and then gave up. They proposed installing a Caisson well near our creek, which they insisted would be an equivalent installation to the tubular well (i.e. it would be provide our house with a year round supply of clean water with the flip of a switch).
Their installation lasted about a couple days before contaminating with mud, and I've since learned there is nothing "Caisson" about their installation. All they did was dig a 2-2.5m deep pit about 10 feet next to the shore of the creek, and then make us spend a bunch of money delivering gravel and hauling it out to the remote location for a week using three different horses. They placed a 6 inch pvc pipe in the middle of the pit, where they suspended our submersible pump, and then filled in the rest of the pit with gravel.
As I said, the thing lasted a couple days until we had the first rain. From that point forward it just kept getting worse and worse. Water quality declining and visibly muddy like chocolate milk, no longer any significant water capacity, leaking plumbing connections, check valve ruined, now some electrical short with the pump that causes our home's differential to trip and cut off all electricity to the entire house everytime we try to run the submersible pump.
They said a six month guarantee, but we've been trying to get this guy to show up and do something now for about six months. Not that there is anything they can really solve anyway, because they had a poor design in the first place. The top of the 6-inch pipe is slightly below the level of the creek's bank, so in any big storm it is completely exposed to the dirty overflow from the creek.
We haven't been able to fill our home's water tank even once since their installation.
Maybe the guy is going to show up today, but he has been stringing us along now for weeks. We haven't told him, but we want him out here to confront him face-to-face. I'm pissed. We can't really sue him, because the legal system here is useless (we've tried that avenue with similar con artists in the past). I'm thinking about just smearing his business. There are no google reviews in Peru, but everyone advertises through facebook marketplace, so we can post our own ads with the same keywords so people will learn what they could expect from hiring the guy. We're also thinking of using friends and family to pose as potential customers in order to lure him out to remote locations, and then never hire him at any of those sites, just so he wastes his time. I'll give him a couple days to return all our money, and if not I guess I need to do something. Hopefully he understands his reputation is worth more than the 5000 Soles he scammed us out of.
Any other ideas?
Can't really think of anything else to do that's legal.
We paid, they drilled in three places, and then gave up. They proposed installing a Caisson well near our creek, which they insisted would be an equivalent installation to the tubular well (i.e. it would be provide our house with a year round supply of clean water with the flip of a switch).
Their installation lasted about a couple days before contaminating with mud, and I've since learned there is nothing "Caisson" about their installation. All they did was dig a 2-2.5m deep pit about 10 feet next to the shore of the creek, and then make us spend a bunch of money delivering gravel and hauling it out to the remote location for a week using three different horses. They placed a 6 inch pvc pipe in the middle of the pit, where they suspended our submersible pump, and then filled in the rest of the pit with gravel.
As I said, the thing lasted a couple days until we had the first rain. From that point forward it just kept getting worse and worse. Water quality declining and visibly muddy like chocolate milk, no longer any significant water capacity, leaking plumbing connections, check valve ruined, now some electrical short with the pump that causes our home's differential to trip and cut off all electricity to the entire house everytime we try to run the submersible pump.
They said a six month guarantee, but we've been trying to get this guy to show up and do something now for about six months. Not that there is anything they can really solve anyway, because they had a poor design in the first place. The top of the 6-inch pipe is slightly below the level of the creek's bank, so in any big storm it is completely exposed to the dirty overflow from the creek.
We haven't been able to fill our home's water tank even once since their installation.
Maybe the guy is going to show up today, but he has been stringing us along now for weeks. We haven't told him, but we want him out here to confront him face-to-face. I'm pissed. We can't really sue him, because the legal system here is useless (we've tried that avenue with similar con artists in the past). I'm thinking about just smearing his business. There are no google reviews in Peru, but everyone advertises through facebook marketplace, so we can post our own ads with the same keywords so people will learn what they could expect from hiring the guy. We're also thinking of using friends and family to pose as potential customers in order to lure him out to remote locations, and then never hire him at any of those sites, just so he wastes his time. I'll give him a couple days to return all our money, and if not I guess I need to do something. Hopefully he understands his reputation is worth more than the 5000 Soles he scammed us out of.
Any other ideas?
Can't really think of anything else to do that's legal.
