B.E.S.T. Water Filters

About

Born into the Hopgood Plumbers’ family, which was established on the Gold Coast (Australia), Colin Hopgood became part of a third generation of plumbers. During his plumbing apprenticeship in the 1970’s, he saw an increased amount of enquiries for filtration systems. However, the knowledge and truth about how filters worked seemed to be a bit scarce. The mere fact that a water filter was rated to treat 20,000 litres, yet had to be replaced every 6 months after only 2000 litres had gone through it, led Colin to explore and discover the reasons behind this and what health complications were present with basic filter systems. This was the start of his passion (or obsession - if you wish), with water filters. The start of the 1990’s saw us place our first ad in the yellow pages for water filtration. At that stage there were only 2 other businesses listed. Within a couple of years, there were well over 35 new businesses. This was also around the period where we were introduced to the SilverSafe technology. By this time, we had a shop at Southport. In 1996, we launched our first website, believed to be one of the first water filter businesses in Australia to do so. After a few years, being from a technical background and not into high pressure sales, we decided to let the other businesses fight it out between themselves and handed the shop over to one of our agents. This enabled us to concentrate on what we do best. (Note: Colin installed his first filter in a caravan in the 1970’s.)