Borehole cost

RhysT

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Swansea
Put in a borehole this summer. Drilled to 110m. Huge water volume. Approx 14k inc the filtration for iron and manganese.
 

zyklon

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Livestock Farmer
What filter are you guys using? We have I think a 20cm blue one but it needs changed every few weeks which isn’t cheap. Wondering if there is a stainless steel type one we’re you can take it out and wash it for reuse?
 

zyklon

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Livestock Farmer
It’s filtering water for 300/400 cattle. Our water has this blackish material in it. It builds up over time in the pipe from the pump which we have to replace every so often. It just clogs the filter.

We have that flush system and salt unit also.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
we have no filters, and supply 300 cattle, and 2 houses, having bacto problems in the dairy, water was prime suspect. All tests at various points along the line, proved negative.
 

zyklon

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Livestock Farmer
We have two house on mains and hot water tanks for washing milking machine all on mains now. We stopped the salt treatment as the cost of salt use was stupid. Mains water was cheap and ensures hot water elements and other main areas weren’t affected by hard water.
 

D14

Member
As above looking to put in a bore hole for several houses.anyone had any costs for full installation please
Nick...

Enquired about this last year and was quoted £5,000/day all in and that would get you to around 80m. Runs into the next day and its another £5,000 and so on. That was all pumps, liners etc.
The problem is that once you've started you are basically committed to until you hit water.
 

RhysT

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Swansea
Enquired about this last year and was quoted £5,000/day all in and that would get you to around 80m. Runs into the next day and its another £5,000 and so on. That was all pumps, liners etc.
The problem is that once you've started you are basically committed to until you hit water.
I think our boring cost about £7000. Dug to 110m
Apex drilling based South Wales, but travel nationwide
 

Netherfield

Member
Location
West Yorkshire
If it's shared, better on the mains if possible. My daughter's friend rented a house once with shared septic rank, one person looked after the emptying and maintenance etc, the went away on holiday, system backed up, nobody else seemed to know what to do. Seven houses with blocked toilets two days before christmas.

And if he goes for the borehole find someone local if possible, no good waiting hours for someone coming from the other end of the country if it breaks down.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Enquired about this last year and was quoted £5,000/day all in and that would get you to around 80m. Runs into the next day and its another £5,000 and so on. That was all pumps, liners etc.
The problem is that once you've started you are basically committed to until you hit water.
depends on how much water you use, we used a dowser, told us where, and depth, spot on, in the first instance, we just used the pump, on a time clock, to pump water to a resovoir, fed by a spring, that wasn't suppling enough water.
Dead simple, and used all the exsisting pipework, since then, we have 'powered' up the system, to fields above the reservoir. A word of caution, if you are on a gravity fed system, the increase in pressure, tends to blow a fitting or 2 !
Cost wise, quickest pay back of anything else we have done, but we are dairy. Look at your bills, add up how much you pay for water, and compare with the cost of b/hole.
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
depends on how much water you use, we used a dowser, told us where, and depth, spot on, in the first instance, we just used the pump, on a time clock, to pump water to a resovoir, fed by a spring, that wasn't suppling enough water.
Dead simple, and used all the exsisting pipework, since then, we have 'powered' up the system, to fields above the reservoir. A word of caution, if you are on a gravity fed system, the increase in pressure, tends to blow a fitting or 2 !
Cost wise, quickest pay back of anything else we have done, but we are dairy. Look at your bills, add up how much you pay for water, and compare with the cost of b/hole.
Yes borehole has a good payback. Unfortunately the liner in mine has collapsed preventing a pump being dropped, only just managed to extract a new pump that was wedged when we tried to replace the old one. Potentially looking to drill a new one, could have done without this atm.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
how long had the bore been done ? if it was at drilling, surely the firms cost.
We had an old borehole, long dry, the liner was cast iron, when we wanted to remove concrete slab, and ironwork, digger just put his bucket on top of liner, and pushed it down, the bore was 80 ft, the new liner on the new bore is perforated plastic, with pea gravel on the outside.
 

YELROM

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
How much water do you use ? What are you filtering out
Ours, to take out Iron & Manganese, for 17 cu m day are big cylinders that back flush automatically every night, Never need touching

It sounds like we have the same or simular cylinders, but ours eventually clog up with iron after about 5 years so our water pressure drops and we have to replace them
The bore hole people we use says there is nothing you can do to clean them other than the automatic back flush
Do you service yours in anyway to stop them clogging up over time
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
The bore hole people we use says there is nothing you can do to clean them other than the automatic back flush
Do you service yours in anyway to stop them clogging up over time
Havn`t needed to touch them yet pumping since july `14
Think the lads from Dales Water said at some point they may need emptying and refilling with new grit stuff ( don`t know the proper name
 

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