Well Inspections in Alachua, FL
FL Water Well Contractor License #5016 · FGWA · NGWA · NCFWA Member · Google 5.0 Rated · Wisetack Financing
If you are buying a place on a well around Alachua with VA, FHA, or USDA financing, there is a piece of the process nobody explains until it goes wrong. Under VA and FHA guidance, you may not collect the water sample your lender relies on, nor may anyone you hire; USDA separately requires that the analysis itself be run by the health authority or a certified lab. Your loan program and your lender decide what applies to you, and it shapes the whole timeline either way.
Our part is the equipment. A pre-purchase inspection is a flat $200 with the written report for closing. Call (352) 320-2412, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.
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Williston and the Nature Coast edge of Levy County are part of our service area.
Who is allowed to draw the sample, and why it is not you
The VA lender's handbook states that all testing must be performed by a disinterested third party, that this includes collecting and transporting the water sample from the source, and that at no time will the veteran or other interested party collect or transport it. HUD's guidance to lenders applies the same restriction to the borrower and interested parties. USDA requires the local health authority or a state-certified laboratory to perform the analysis.
The handbooks also name who may: the local health authority, a commercial testing laboratory, a licensed sanitary engineer, or another party acceptable to the local health authority. A buyer is an interested party. A seller is an interested party. A pump contractor working for either one is an interested party, which is why we hand this piece over and say so on the phone before anyone books anything.
So the slow step is rarely the analysis. Alachua County's health department runs its own water microbiology lab and posts results the next day. The slow step is arranging for a qualified, disinterested person to draw the bottle and get it delivered inside the county's acceptance window, and that is the piece people leave until last.
Four ways a sample gets thrown out before anyone tests it
Alachua County publishes its acceptance rules, and they are strict enough to catch people out. A rejected sample means drawing again, and on a purchase timeline you may not have
It arrives more than 15 hours after it was drawn. The county states samples must be received within that window.
It is warmer than 24 degrees Celsius on arrival. Warm samples are rejected or generate a sample exception record, so a bottle that rode around in a truck all afternoon is a wasted trip.
There is less than 100 milliliters in the bottle. Under-filled samples are rejected outright, and the fill line is marked for a reason.
It shows up on a Friday. The county accepts water samples Monday through Thursday, before 4 PM.
What our inspection covers
The equipment you are about to own
Casing, wellhead, tank, switch and the pump itself. Every one of them can be at the end of its service life on a property whose water tests perfectly clean, because a laboratory measures the water and nothing else.
A field-kit read on iron, hardness, pH, nitrate and sulfide
Run on site, and aimed at livability rather than compliance. Staining, scale, the rotten-egg smell and the things that quietly shorten appliance life. On a property where the house, a barn and the irrigation run off one system, a chemistry problem shows up on several sets of fixtures at once, and you are inheriting all of them.
Findings in writing, while you can still use them
The $200 covers the report. Agents use it to keep a contingency conversation factual, which a verbal impression from a walk-through cannot do.
Why Alachua buyers and agents call us
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Alachua is our home county, and the shop sits south of town, which matters when an inspection has to land inside a contingency window.
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Conventional financing asks only that the well exist, be reachable, and keep working. No water analysis at all. And none of the major programs, FHA, VA, USDA, Fannie or Freddie, asks anyone to look at the pump. That gap is the whole job.
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Perry-Pump holds FL Water Well Contractor License #5016 and belongs to the Florida, National, and North Central Florida ground water associations. Bacteriological work is sent to a state-approved lab, and the sample is sent through the county. We do the equipment and the field chemistry.
Every well and pump service we offer in Alachua
Well Inspections is one of many things we handle for Alachua and Alachua County. Anything on this list, one call covers.
Not sure which one fits? Call (352) 320-2412 and describe what is happening.
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Alachua well inspection questions
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The county sells bottles for $25 each and recommends two for a private well, so cost is not the obstacle. The rule is. Any party with an interest in the transaction is barred from collecting or transporting a lender's sample under VA and HUD guidance, and we are working for one of those parties. If we drew it, your lender could reject the result. Worth asking your lender what panel they actually want ordered, too: no federal loan program names a single analyte, so the list comes from them or the lab.
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By the state, no. The Department of Health states plainly that Florida has no requirement for well sampling when private homes are sold, and Alachua County is not among the counties whose health departments enforce local testing rules. Anything tested on your purchase is there because a loan program or the contract asked for it.
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It changes what we expect to find, and no, it does not shorten the visit. A recent pump on an old wellhead is common, and the parts that fail next are often the ones nobody touched during the last job. We would still want to see the casing, the seal, the tank, and the switch.
Under contract on an Alachua property with a well?
Line up a qualified sample collector early and get the equipment looked at early. Both queues are longer than a contingency period makes them feel.
Perry-Pump Repair Service, 747 SW 2nd Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601. FL Water Well Contractor License #5016. FGWA · NGWA · NCFWA Member.
Business hours: Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. Weekends, late evenings, and holidays are handled as overflow and emergency only, not as scheduled service.