Skillings & Sons LLC

Skillings & Sons is a New Hampshire water-well company based at 9 Columbia Drive in Amherst, hired across southern NH for the things that go wrong between a drilled well and the tap: no water, failing pumps, dead pressure tanks, low pressure, and water that needs testing, filtering or softening. The review record is deep and recent — 62 reviews on file from 2021 to 2026, 53 of them in the last six months alone, with Google publishing a 4.9-star average from 1,894 ratings. What homeowners praise is consistent and specific: crews that turn up the same day when a house has lost water, technicians who explain the diagnosis and the options before touching anything, and jobs that more than once came in under the quoted figure. Named technicians recur across accounts, and several reviewers describe coming back to the company repeatedly rather than shopping around. The complaints are few but worth reading before you book. In August 2026 a one-star reviewer alleged that a technician loosened a whole-house filter housing so it would leak and then told him he needed a replacement system, and said repeated calls to the office went nowhere. In July 2026 another reviewer reported that a leak-defense system began alarming within hours of a carbon rebed and that the service department told them the work was unrelated. There is also older, harder context. In a December 2022 r/newhampshire thread about dry wells in Brookline, NH, a homeowner in a new-build said the well the company had installed produced no water and that they were quoted roughly $35,000 to expand it, deepen the pump and add a well manager; other commenters in the thread argued a driller can never guarantee water and that the contract terms matter. That is a Reddit account, not a verified finding, and no regulator's record is in this file — but if you are drilling a new well rather than servicing an existing one, ask up front what the contract promises about yield and what happens if the hole comes up short. New Hampshire does not register home-improvement contractors, so there is no state HIC number to check here; nothing in this file verifies any licence for the business, so ask to see credentials and insurance directly.