Thinking of installing a bore hole - what are the issues and costs.

[MikeSharp01]

We are subject to the vagaries of Thames Water here and we have woeful water pressure and flow. We live on a hill that has a number of springs and is know for its wells hence I am thinking of installing a bore hole. So what are the issues and the likely cost? Anybody got any experiences of doing this?

[JohnMo]

All depends how deep you need to go and ground make up. We were almost pure sand down to 34m so there's a lot of steel liner instead of plastic. This has a knock on as the treatment needs to remove iron oxide.

 

Our drilling company insisted we used a water dowser (man with a couple of sticks) to identify location and depth of borehole.  All work perfectly.

 

Our system is down hole pump, to 100L accumulator, backwash filter that also does iron oxide removal, 10 and 5 micron cartridge filters and a UV filter.

 

It was all pretty easy stress free, water quality is great. Works just like main water. Saves £500 on my council tax bill (Scotland includes water and sewage on council tax bills)

[Roger440]

1 hour ago, MikeSharp01 said:

We are subject to the vagaries of Thames Water here and we have woeful water pressure and flow. We live on a hill that has a number of springs and is know for its wells hence I am thinking of installing a bore hole. So what are the issues and the likely cost? Anybody got any experiences of doing this?

 

If you have springs, why can you not just use those? Way cheaper than a bore hole.

 

I know a couple of people with spring fed water systems. No issues, even last summer.

[marmic]

We explored way back all options for water inc wide water well.   None were going to work as unfortunately we are on low weald clay.  But sounds like you may have right geology.  At time I had a very helpful conversation with borehole-driller.co.uk  Might be worth a call?  were clearly knowledgeable and have geology/water maps etc from memory - seemed to be straight/honest too.   (i tried other companies too at time - most of which were unhelpful / disinterested etc - which seems to be the way with many these days!!)

[MikeSharp01]

3 hours ago, marmic said:

At time I had a very helpful conversation with borehole-driller.co.uk 

I will give them a call on Monday.

[SteamyTea]

The British Geological Society has online maps of borehole locations.

See if any are near you, hunt the property owner down and ask a few questions.

[Gone West]

3 hours ago, MikeSharp01 said:

I will give them a call on Monday.

+1 for borehole-driller.co.uk, we used them sixteen years ago for for our deepbore soakaway/borehole. The chaps came from Deal and charged £3750 for 46.8m, sounds good at that price.