Well pump and water treatment software, shown on a fictional well pump and water treatment company

Open the demo and you are inside Cisternmoor Water, a fictional well pump and water treatment company running the real product: click anything, nothing changes.

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What works today for a well and water company, and what is not available yet

The demo's welcome card says the same. The names, people, jobs and prices in this demo are illustrative.

The well and water jobs in the demo

Each with what its estimate covers and how it is billed:

• Ashcombe no-water call, submersible pump replacement — Pull and replace the failed submersible pump at 220 ft (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Emergency no-water call: diagnose → Pull the old pump and set the new one → Disinfect the well and collect the bacteria sample.
  Daily log: “Emergency no-water call. Breaker and control box fine, pressure at zero; the motor reads shorted to ground. Left the family bottled water and booked the pull for the morning.”
• Sethuraman softener and iron filter install — Softener and air-injection iron filter (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: In-home water test and sizing → Install the softener and iron filter → Start-up and settings card.
  Daily log: “Treatment start-up sheet: softener hardness set to 24 gpg, regeneration at 2:00 a.m., solar salt in the brine tank, bypass in service, drain air gap checked. Iron filter set to backwash at night. Post-install test at the kitchen tap: 0 gpg hardness and no iron on the test strip.”
• Real-estate well inspection, 86 Saddle Notch Road — Real-estate well inspection: flow test, bacteria and nitrate (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Bill to Larkmoor Title & Escrow, due at closing. Report to the buyer, both agents and the title officer..
  Schedule: Real-estate well inspection: wellhead, flow test and samples → Inspection report to the buyer, both agents and the title officer.
• Pellegrino pressure tank and switch replacement — Short-cycling: replace the pressure tank and switch (Time & Materials)
  Schedule: Short-cycling service call.
  Daily log: “Pump short-cycling: the tank was waterlogged and the switch contacts were burnt. Replaced the tank, the switch and the tank tee, set the precharge and checked the cut-in and cut-out.”
• Kirchner well rehabilitation and disinfection — Camera inspection, jetting, shock chlorination and retest (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Do-not-drink notice is up until the retest result is back; the family is on bottled water..
• Elkmere Valley Farm barn pump system — New pump, tanks, yard line and hydrants for the barn (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Trench the yard line to the barn → Pump circuit and disconnect at the barn → Set the pump, tanks and hydrants.

Walk through one well and water job: Kirchner well rehabilitation and disinfection

Its schedule, in order:

1. Camera inspection and jetting
2. Shock chlorination and overnight contact
3. Flush the well and the house lines

Change orders on this job: “Replace the cracked well cap with a sanitary cap”; “Replace the rusted tank tee while the system is drained”.

To-dos on this job: “Re-sample after flush”.

From its daily log:

• Camera showed iron bacteria slime on the casing and a partly plugged screen. Pulled the pump, jetted and brushed the casing, and pumped to waste until the water ran clearer. CO-1 approved for a sanitary cap. Weather: Cold morning, sunny afternoon.
• Mixed and circulated the chlorine through the well and the house lines; overnight contact. Disinfection notice to the homeowner: do not drink the tap water until the retest result is back. CO-2 sent for the rusted tank tee. Weather: Clear. Delays: Refilling the system waits on CO-2.

A well and water proposal in the demo: Softener, iron filter and drinking water system

Cisternmoor Water sent it to a lead. The scope reads:

Install an air-injection iron and manganese filter ahead of a softener, with a bypass valve and a drain line with an air gap; add a reverse osmosis drinking water system at the kitchen sink; start up, set the controls and test the water at the kitchen tap after the install.

The notes on that lead:

• Orange stains in the tubs and white scale on the fixtures
• In-home water test: 22 gpg hardness and 3 ppm iron; a family of four
• Sent good, better and best options with the test results

Other well and water leads in the demo

• Salt delivery sign-up: Wants softener salt delivered to the cabin; asks how often and which days we come; Left a message; call back with the delivery days for his road
• Well pump systems for four new homes: Walked the four lots: the wells are drilled; pumps, tanks and yard lines needed before drywall
• Cabin well test before buying

What goes on a well and water estimate in the demo

From Cisternmoor Water's price list, without the prices:

• Diagnostic, no water or low pressure
• Technician labor, per hour
• Pump hoist and two-person crew, per hour
• Submersible pump, 1 hp, 3-wire
• Control box, 1 hp
• Submersible pump wire 10-3 with ground, per foot
• Poly drop pipe 1-1/4 in, per foot
• Heat-shrink splice kit
• Torque arrestor
• Pressure tank, medium
• Pressure switch
• Tank tee kit with gauge and relief valve
• Sanitary well cap
• Well shock chlorination, chemicals and mixing
• Well camera inspection
• Flow and yield test, per hour
• Bacteria test, total coliform and E. coli
• Nitrate and nitrite test
• Water softener, standard capacity
• Iron and manganese filter, air injection
• Bypass valve, drain line and air gap
• Softener salt, bag
• Treatment install labor, per hour
• Trenching and yard line, per foot
• Frost-free yard hydrant

Well and water cost codes in the demo

Cisternmoor Water's own cost codes:

• Service calls & diagnostics
• Pumps & motors
• Drop pipe, wire & fittings
• Pressure tanks & controls
• Wellhead, pitless & caps
• Well disinfection & testing services
• Lab fees
• Softening equipment
• Filtration (iron, sulfur, sediment, carbon, neutralizer)
• Disinfection equipment (UV, chemical feed)
• Reverse osmosis & drinking water
• Salt & consumables (media, cartridges, lamps, membranes)
• Plumbing & electrical tie-in
• Pump hoist / rig time
• Trenching & yard lines
• Permits & state filing fees
• Rental equipment
• Service agreements
• Warranty & callbacks
• Travel, after-hours & emergency
• Well drilling (per foot)
• Casing & grout
• Rig mobilization

Questions about SelfConstruct for well and water work

Is there a well and water version of SelfConstruct?

Not as a separate product. Cisternmoor Water opens with the business type “Water treatment & well pumps”, so its menus are set for that trade. In a customer's company today, the menus are the same whatever the trade.

Can a well and water job be fixed price or time and materials?

Both are in the demo: Cisternmoor Water's “Ashcombe no-water call, submersible pump replacement” is a fixed-price job, and “Pellegrino pressure tank and switch replacement” is billed time and materials.

Does SelfConstruct have “A pricebook with margin floors, service agreements and truck stock” for well and water companies yet?

Not yet. It is on the list the demo's welcome card shows under “Not available yet for your trade”.

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Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company before sales tax, unlimited users, 50 GB of storage included.

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