For builders -- Nexton, Cane Bay, Carnes, Foxbank, Cypress Preserve, Carolina Groves
Pre-drywall access to the garage main makes a Puronics whole-home install a 2 to 3 hour slot on the plumber's schedule. Retrofitting the same system after close-out means cutting finished drywall, a return trip, and a callback the buyer remembers. We lock pricing at contract, coordinate with your general, and hand you a spec sheet the marketing center can use the same week.
The short version
Why do new-construction builders install water treatment pre-drywall?
Because the water main tee, the softener loop, and the drain connection all live in the garage wall. Running the tubing and commissioning the unit during the rough-in window takes 2 to 3 hours on your plumber's schedule. Retrofitting the same system after closing means a half-day of cut-and-patch, a return service visit, and a buyer who remembers the interruption. Pre-install eliminates the callback and protects the warranty relationship.
Source: Builder partnership playbook; new-construction install timing benchmarks
Volume pricing framework
5+ homes / year
Locked per-home install cost. Plumber-coordinated scheduling. Marketing-center spec sheet provided.
15+ homes / year
Deeper per-home discount. Dedicated coordinator on our side. Co-branded buyer packet template.
30+ homes / year
Per-phase pricing. Pre-packaged upgrade-option language for buyer contracts. Quarterly review with your sales lead.
Specific per-home pricing is scoped after reviewing the plan-set, the water-main access, and the phase volume. We do not publish a per-home builder rate on the site because the variance across plan types is too wide to quote accurately.
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
Nothing legally binding until we price a specific subdivision or phase. The partnership starts as a coordination agreement: you add Pristine to your pre-drywall subcontractor list for the phases we price together, we publish a locked per-home install cost for the duration of that contract, and we coordinate scheduling directly with your general contractor's plumbing lead. No exclusivity is required; most of our builder partners keep us on a preferred-vendor basis and hand us the buyers who specifically ask about water treatment.
Two reasons, both practical. First, pre-drywall access: the water main tee, softener loop, and drain connection all sit in the garage wall, and running the tubing before the drywall goes up avoids the half-day of cut-and-patch work a retrofit requires. Second, the buyer walks into a fully-completed home. Post-close installs involve re-entry, a service appointment, drywall repair, and in some floor plans a carpenter callback. Pre-install eliminates all of that.
We arrive in the framing-to-drywall window your plumber specifies, tee the softener loop into the main with the plumber on site, set and pressure-test the unit, and leave it commissioned for final walk-through. Typical time on site is 2 to 3 hours per home. We coordinate dates directly with the plumber or superintendent -- you do not manage us separately. The install is performed by a South Carolina LLR-verified licensed plumber on our network; Jarred Guidelli is the founder and coordinator, not himself a licensed plumber, and we never represent him as one.
Volume pricing is scoped per contract, not quoted on this page. The framework we use: per-home install cost is locked at contract signing for all homes in scope; discount tiers exist at 5+, 15+, and 30+ homes per year; we quote after reviewing the plan-set and the water main access. The buyer-facing price in your marketing center reflects the partnership rate, not the retail $7,999.
A Puronics-branded one-page spec sheet describing what the system does, what it is warrantied for, and who installs it. Your brokerage or builder brand sits in the header; Puronics sits in the footer. The sheet is deliberately technical -- hardness grains removed, NSF/ANSI 42 and 58 citations on the RO component, installation method -- so a buyer walks out with a specification rather than a marketing flyer.
If you installed the Puronics system through our partnership, the warranty sits with Puronics (the equipment is built by a manufacturer in continuous operation since 1948) plus our service warranty on the install itself. Callbacks are routed to us directly, not to your warranty desk. Your reputational exposure to water-quality complaints drops to effectively zero for the homes we cover -- that is the structural benefit of pre-installing treatment rather than handing the buyer a utility water problem they discover in month three.
Yes; that is actually the ideal case. About 90% of Nexton, Cane Bay, and Carnes slab-on-grade new construction comes pre-plumbed with a dedicated softener loop. When the loop exists, install is faster, cleaner, and has no impact on the drywall or finish schedule. For homes without a pre-plumbed loop, we tee the main during the rough-in window and it adds roughly a half-hour per home.
Where to start
The scope call covers phase volume, plan-set review, and per-home coordination. The spec sheet is the one-pager your marketing center and buyers will see.
