Trade Partner Network, Lowcountry SC
Whole-home water treatment is the upgrade Lowcountry buyers in Nexton, Cane Bay, Carnes, Foxbank, and Cypress Preserve research before they walk into the design center. Pre-drywall installation by a SC-LLR-licensed plumbing partner. Puronics manufacturer warranty. Locked per-home pricing at contract. One spec sheet, one coordinator, no callbacks landing on your warranty desk.
The short version
Why is whole-home water treatment a builder options-sheet lever in Charleston?
Lowcountry water is moderately hard, chlorinated, and is the source of the most common post-close warranty complaint categories: hardness scale on glass and fixtures, chlorine taste, and dishwasher spotting. Buyers in Nexton, Cane Bay, Carnes, and Foxbank research healthy-water options before the design-center appointment. A pre-drywall, pre-priced inclusion routes the complaint to a Puronics-warranted system from move-in, protects your NPS, and adds a margin lever to the upgrade catalog without adding callback risk for your superintendent.
Source: Builder Trade Partner playbook; Lowcountry water-quality intake; new-construction options-revenue benchmarks
Why Pristine on your options sheet
Options revenue
Lowcountry water hardness, chlorination, and post-2024 utility-trust gaps make whole-home treatment one of the upgrades new buyers research before the design-center appointment. Add Pristine as a community-spec inclusion or a design-center upgrade tier. Pre-priced. Pre-spec'd. No field VPOs.
Warranty-desk protection
Industry research shows post-close NPS drops in the first year, with the warranty phase the lowest-rated stage of the buyer journey. Hardness scale on glass, chlorine taste, and dishwasher spotting are top complaints buyers blame on the builder, not the utility. Pre-installing treatment routes the issue to a Puronics-warranted system from move-in day one.
Trade Partner Network
Pristine's consumer marketing surfaces buyers in the new-construction decision window every week. Partner builders are referred by name when those buyers ask "who builds in this community." Add the directory listing on /partners, the periodic Lowcountry trade-partner roundtable, and a co-branded spec sheet your marketing center can use the same week.
Who pulls the inspection
Every install is inspected by a South Carolina LLR-licensed plumber on our network. Equipment is built by Puronics, in continuous operation since 1948, with a manufacturer warranty of record. Founder Jarred Guidelli coordinates the partnership and the install schedule; he is not himself a licensed plumber and we never represent him as one. Insurance and bond paperwork file with your risk department before the first home.
How the partnership runs
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We pull the plan-set for the phase, identify pre-plumbed softener loops versus slab-on-grade tee points, and quote per-home installed cost locked at contract.
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Choose the structure that fits your sales model: a community-spec inclusion priced into the base home, or a design-center upgrade tier with a co-branded buyer-facing spec sheet.
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2 to 3 hours per home, coordinated directly with your GC's plumbing lead. SC-LLR-licensed plumber pulls inspection. Photo-documented and signed off before drywall.
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Homeowner walks into commissioned, conditioned water on move-in day. Pristine's consumer marketing surfaces new-construction-window buyers back to your sales center. Warranty calls route to Pristine, not your warranty desk.
Trade Partner Network
Pristine's consumer marketing surfaces buyers in the new-construction decision window every week. They ask "who builds in this community." We answer with the names of partner builders. The network is small, local, and earned through quality of work, not paid for through gifts or kickbacks.
Your business named on the public /partners page so buyers searching for who builds in Nexton, Cane Bay, Carnes, Foxbank, Cypress Preserve, or Carolina Groves see your name attached to a water system they trust.
Pristine's consumer marketing surfaces buyers in the new-build decision window every week. We name partner builders by neighborhood when those buyers ask "who builds in this community."
Your brokerage or builder brand in the header. Puronics in the footer. Technical spec in the body. Delivered to your marketing center within 5 business days of the partnership going live.
Small-format gathering of partner builders, head plumbers, and design-center coordinators to share field notes on Lowcountry water and new-build coordination. We host. No gifts, no dollar prizes, no anti-kickback exposure for your purchasing department.
No exclusivity required. No application fee. Membership is by invitation after a successful first phase together; existing trade partners may be listed by name on /partners with their permission.
Buyer-facing materials
We provide a short listing-copy line the marketing center can drop into MLS and the builder website: “Whole-home water treatment by Pristine Water Networks (Puronics), installed during construction.” Paired with the one-page technical spec sheet, that is enough for any buyer doing due diligence to understand what they are getting without a sales conversation.
Questions builders ask us first
Two structures, your call. Either a community-spec inclusion priced into the base home (best for differentiated phases where every buyer gets healthy water), or a design-center upgrade tier with a co-branded one-page spec sheet (best when you want options-revenue lift without changing base price). Both are pre-priced and pre-spec'd at contract. No field VPOs. No surprise add-ons mid-phase.
Yes. Typical install is 2 to 3 hours per home, coordinated directly with your GC's plumbing lead. We slot in the framing-to-drywall window your plumber specifies, tee the softener loop into the main, set and pressure-test the unit, and leave it commissioned for final walk-through. Your superintendent does not manage us separately. We track the phase Gantt with your team and re-sequence if your schedule slips, not the other way around.
We work with him. Pristine is the trade partner for the water-treatment scope; your plumber stays on his scope and pulls his own permits. Our SC-LLR-licensed plumbing partner pulls the inspection of record on the treatment install itself, which is a separate line on the permit. Founder Jarred Guidelli coordinates the partnership and the install schedule; he is not himself a licensed plumber and we never represent him as one.
Ours, not yours. The equipment carries the Puronics manufacturer warranty (Puronics has been in continuous operation since 1948). The install carries our service warranty. A homeowner who calls about water taste, scale, or pressure inside the warranty window calls Pristine directly and we dispatch the truck. Your warranty desk is not in the loop unless you want a status copy. The structural point of the partnership is taking the highest-frequency post-close water complaint off your warranty desk before it lands.
Yes. Any post-close issue traceable to the Pristine system is ours to triage, dispatch, and close out. If a separate punchlist item gets miscategorized to us, we sort it back to the right trade quickly without bouncing it through your superintendent. We also send a quarterly status note to your warranty desk so you have a paper trail for any home in your portfolio that has a Pristine system installed.
Book the 30-minute scope call. The first call covers your phase volume, plan-set review, plumbing-lead introduction, and which structure (community-spec inclusion vs design-center upgrade tier) fits your sales model. If we both agree to move forward, we file insurance and bond paperwork with your risk department, draft per-home pricing locked at contract, and produce the co-branded spec sheet within 5 business days. There is no exclusivity demand and no application fee.
Three things, listed in order of what you can verify on day one. First, a directory listing on the public /partners page so buyers searching "who builds in Cane Bay" or "who builds in Carolina Groves" see your name attached to a system they trust. Second, reciprocal new-construction buyer referrals - Pristine's consumer marketing surfaces buyers in the new-build decision window every week, and we name partner builders by neighborhood when those buyers ask. Third, a co-branded one-page spec sheet for your marketing center, your header, Puronics in the footer, technical spec in the body. We also host a periodic Lowcountry trade-partner roundtable for partner builders, head plumbers, and design-center coordinators to share field notes on Lowcountry water and new-build coordination. We do not promise gifts, trips, or dollar-value prizes; those create anti-kickback exposure for your purchasing department and we will not put you in that position.
Where to start
The scope call covers phase volume, plan-set review, plumbing-lead introduction, and which structure fits your sales model. The spec sheet is the one-pager your marketing center and buyers will see.
