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[jazziejay]

Hi anyone know the cheapest way to get a borehole on your land... I've been quoted 10000!

[boiow]

we are looking at doing ours like this
http://www.drillyourownwell.com/

[Cornish Gems]

It really depends on what depth one has to go down to reach water. Ours is 150' and cost less than £2,000.

[jazziejay]

Wow that's good, did you do it yourself? Also how do you test what depth you have to go to pls

[Wilk]

Hi jazziejay,

We looked at this last year and were quoted a variety of prices, a lot depends on ground condition and how deep you need to go. Have a look at www.howtodigawell.com we bought the drilling head, mud and other essentials, also the dvd is quite useful, i would love to say we have done it and it works great however we have just not got around to it yet, maybe later this summer. You need quite a large compressor to run it as well.

[Cornish Gems]

The borehole was done by a cornish company who just drilled it after a survey and put in the liner , we supplied the pump (less than £500) and cable and water pipe, and we had it tested by the water board to make sure it was fit to drink when filtered and we were OK.

You can get a survey for less than £200 although a detailed one is over £300, if the water table is over 150ft then they have to use a full scale drilling rig this is where the large costs come in, if they can use a small trailer or truck mounted rig the cost is very much less. We were extremely lucky.

CG

[Romany]

I'm also wanting to get a borehole... there apparently used to be a spring at the entrance to the land (believe its been partially diverted) so hope that all I have to do is find out where it actually comes out! The water table round here is only about 8ft down as the rought drain has water in it most of the year (although last year it did dry up after no significant rain for most of the spring and summer).

Thanks Boiow and Wilk for the links

Romany

[jazziejay]

Thank you Cornish gems that's cleared up why the costs vary so much..... How would you compare a borehole to mains if mains isn't too expensive? I think it would be cheaper for me to go on mains initially but just wondered what others opinions on mains versus borehole was.....btw since I've bought the land I seem to have become the Antichrist to everyone surrounding it!!! Whats that all About? Lol

[Cornish Gems]

The cost will depend upon how much you are or will be paying for water from your water board, remember you will need water for animals watering in polytunnels depending upon what you are going to do, our water is drinkable although we have to have a filter to take out the iron and other small dirt particles.

After nearly 2 years the cost of the borehole has paid for its self as we use a lot of water raising a dozen plus pigs and a 100ft x 30ft polytunnel to water. The fact that we have our own water we do not pay water rates and as we do not have mains sewage either it is a good savings.

The cost of mains will depend upon how far the pipe has to run to your boundary, this could be more than the cost of a bore hole. You will still have to pipe the water from the boundary or the borehole to where ever you want it and of course that cost would be the same. As it would be down to you and cheaper if you do it yourself.

Well you will find out that your neighbours can either be your best friends or your worst nightmare, we have one who complains to the council about every thing we do, reported us for chicken sheds, pig arks, caravans and field shelters. the rest are good we get our chicken corn from one and another cuts our hay for us etc. So you have to just talk to them and see what happens.
Best is to just get on with your thing and let the neighbours make there own minds up and in the end they can either buy your produce or not.

Farmers are easier to get on with if you are going to farm the land however there will be some that are truly nimbys and will complain about every thing.

CG

[MatthewBaggaley]

Can anyone recommend a borehole driller in the Doncaster/South Yorkshire region, who may also specialise in geothermal?

[Loop]

This forum beats Google hands down! I just searched borehole (as you do on a Saturday night....oh what have I become?!) and this is exactly the info we're looking for thanks :-)

[Chris1]

 If you simply enter 'How to dig a well' in your search box, it will bring up a w(hole) load of stuff. Lots of American, but hey-ho...

[tim'rous beastie]

 If you simply enter 'How to dig a well' in your search box, it will bring up a w(hole) load of stuff. Lots of American, but hey-ho...

 

Heehee I see what you did there!