Water Techniques is a joke.
While there is nothing wrong with their water, their attitude to their customers is amazingly bad. If nothing goes wrong, all is fine. If anything at all goes wrong, its your fault, not theirs, and they don't hesitate to let you know they don't need your business. They were recommended to us by Jeffery Sears, CEO of Fixtures Living (now PIRCH), from which we bought most of our bath and kitchen fixtures, and some smaller specialized appliances.
We have had a series of problems with this company.
First, during a pre-install check - which we scheduled to have both our plumber and the Water Techniques tech present, so that Water Techniques could tell our plumber exactly where they wanted the valves to go, they smashed our newly installed and painted drywall in a corner so hard with a toolbag that the entire plaster corner came off down to the metal. I was right there behind the guy and saw and heard it happen, and said something to him. Nothing nasty, just "whoa! you just broke that!" and he had the gall to tell me "I didn't do it."
Second, (remember we had Water Techniques tell our plumber exactly where they wanted the plumbing, to their specifications?) during the installation they jammed the water tank in so it pushed on the sump pump vent line and broke the connection. They then told us to "just pull out the salt tank" after they had filled it full of about 500lbs of softener salt. Zero apologies. Best of all? They blamed the positioning of the tanks on the plumber, "due to the way the plumber plumbed the bypass in and out" [email from Mark Wakefield, VP]. If the salt tank could be moved by us, the customer, why wasn't it positioned properly by the installer in the first place?
Third, we couldn't even get customer service when it came time to pay for the second installment of 50%. I left messages that went unanswered and played phone tag for days. Regarding the drywall damage, first Water Techniques offered to pay for and offset the cost of the repair, and then very rudely demanded the invoice as proof that it had in fact been done. Guys, if you had asked and not been so offensive about it, I would have gone to the trouble of retrieving a copy from our drywall company and providing it to you.
Finally, THEY REFUSED TO SERVICE THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT. I scheduled an appointment to service the filters and check settings with their office. A couple of hours later, I got a telephone call from Richard Ethridge (according to LinkedIn, the COO), who told me point-blank that they had decided that "we weren't a good fit", that they were choosing not to service our equipment, that they weren't going to show up for their appointment, and that he could "help us" by providing a name of another contractor who would service our equipment. I have never dealt with a company that is more contentious, sarcastic, and just plain disrespectful of its customers.
Also, they are terribly snooty and their VP Mark Wakefield told us very directly that "most of their clients are multimillion dollar homes". For their list of "references", which I didn't read until much later, they don't reference how much their own project cost (I think our install ran about $9000.00), but rather the cost of the home itself, e.g. "XXX Residence. $9 million. YYY Residence. $11 million." Really. Who cares? Are you installing a water treatment system, or claiming credit for their whole house? Our house is pretty high-end but not quite in that range. Apparently, Water Techniques thinks it's appropriate to then treat you with contempt.
Good luck getting any response other than to go fly a kite if you ever have any problems with this company. Deal with this company at your own risk. read more