Plenty of Advantages
Save yourself money by taking advantage of our high-quality water well drilling services. Here at Direct Drilling Ltd, we offer money saving options by providing our clients with specialist borehole water installations. From our base, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, we offer a one-stop solution to domestic properties, providing pumps, controls, and UV filtration; all connected professionally to your property’s water supply.
There are many advantages to using borehole water as a viable option, especially when compared to standard main supply water. Some of the key features being: security, cost, and source. You won’t get cut off or have your pressure reduced during a drought, it isn’t metered, and it costs less than 20% of mains water. What’s more, it’s a purely natural option, untreated, and cuts your costs by as much as 80%.
Improving Your Water
After testing, it has been discovered that most bottled water brands source water from boreholes. This means that by having your own water well, you are vastly improving the quality of water that you use.
Look no further, Direct Drilling can provide you with pure water from your own water well. In the past if you wanted to drill a water well you had to apply to the National Rivers Authority for a Licence. In the last few years they were absorbed into the Environment Agency. In 2003 a change in UK law means that anyone can have a private water well supply, and can pump up to 20,000 litres per day without requiring a licence. There are no restrictions on the use to which the water can be put.
Most importantly, with dry summers becoming more frequent in the South of England, many keen gardeners worry about their beautiful gardens being ruined by a prolonged dry spell. Water from your own water well can be used even when a hose pipe ban is in force, you will never have to worry about water for your plants, trees, ponds or lawns ever again.
The cost of drilling the water well is based on a combination of factors: How deep is the natural underground water level, what are the expected geological ground conditions, ease of access etc.
The first step is to find out what the geology is beneath your property, together with probably depth to water and expected quality. This service is called a water borehole prognosis which many companies charge for.Direct Drilling provides this service absolutely free. We use an extensive database of water well records, borehole
records and geological maps to ascertain the geology and hydrology beneath your property. Simply send us an email with your location and we will do all the research for you, this information is completely free of charge.
The drilling rig used predominately is a Dando Cable Percussion drilling rig, boring diameter is 150mm or 200mm. The process of drilling is not normally messy, and the materials arising are not hazardous. No chemicals or muds are used in the process, and none have to be specially disposed of afterwards. For Manicured Lawns etc we would lay down 8' x 4' plywood sheets to avoid ruining your pride and joy. Water bearing Gravels or Chalk aquifers are ideal for well drilling.
So how do I go about getting myself a water well?
Firstly you need to know what the geology and hydrology is beneath your property.Contact us at Direct Drilling and we will carry out a water borehole prognosis. We search an extensive database of borehole and water well records and consult geological maps to build up a profile of the hydrology and geology beneath your property. We will then be in a position to give you an accurate quote for the drilling of the water well. The prognosis and the quote are totally free of charge and you are under no obligation to use our services.
What can I use the water for?
Water abstracted from your water well can be used for any purpose. If the water is only to be used for irrigation or filling ponds etc it will only require minimal filtration. However, if the water is to be used for drinking water, the water will need to be analysed to determine its quality and then the appropriate filtration equipment can be sourced. Dependant on the geology we can usually give you a good idea of what the quality is probably going to be like and what filtration may be required.