boreholes

[welger]

how many of you have a borehole.
how do get on with them

 

[Iogijones]

Best investment you can do to save money

 

[Danllan]

It is a money saver long term, we needed a water softener too to reduce acidity and so save our domestic plumbing, you might need one for hardness up your way.

For the farm side of things it gives unlimited water at minimal cost; a service every year or - so that's usually 18 months plus - and salt for the softener, which I buy by the ton in 25kg bags, each bag lasts over a month.

In case of emergencies we have a metered mains connection too with Dwr Cymru, I can't remember but think this costs about £30 p.a., it's insurance - we haven't needed to use it, but I am certain of s*d's law coming into play if I give it up and get disconnected.

Total cost per year, post installation, is probably about £200 all-in (services, salt, media and UV tubes), but that's a guess.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Just had one drilled (well year and a bit ago), excellent, really good.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Not so good here, the water never ran completely clean, to start with it was very muddy but over time, many months it got better. it would pump a bit of cloudy/muddy water on start up before running clean but the stock didn't seem to be bothered.
But when they drilled a new bore hole at the Smithfield about a mile away it went dirty as heck and buggered the pump. We can't get the pump out, jammed down there so that was the end of that,

 

[beltbreaker]

Our one has been out of action for a fortnight as it collapsed in on top of pump 37m down

Wouldn't come out so tried forklift on it and pulled pump off coupling and more worrying, broke the 2.7t break strain wire. Going to cut 5m off the pipe and waiting for a new Mono pump as water has high iron level

New pump every 4-5 years at £1100 but no water bill on North side of farm. Currently feeding water with IBC s.

Would I do it again. He'll yes

 

[maen]

Had a bore hole for many years. Pumped many thousands of gallons of water. Ours is lined with a nine inch steel liner slotted to allow water to flow. It will also take two pumps if required.

 

[harvey121]

Put one in 5 years ago and works really well. Just have to replace a couple of trip switches.

 

[Horn&corn]

Our has high iron so this requires an acid wash every 4-6 months to keep volume up. Hassle and you have to dump a lot of water as it is sulphuric for a week after but still better than a £1000/ month water bill and rising!

 

[jellybean]

Had a bore hole for many years. Pumped many thousands of gallons of water. Ours is lined with a nine inch steel liner slotted to allow water to flow. It will also take two pumps if required.

This seems a very sensible way to go, what diameter was the drill bit? A column of water that diameter gives you a much bigger volume to draw from and as you say very small chance of getting a pump stuck. Would I be right in guessing that provided the drilling team have that capacity with their rig the cost would not be much greater than a 5 inch hole?

 

[Timmy_45]

how many of you have a borehole.
how do get on with them

Yes we have a borehole. No problems at all with it.

 

[Timmy_45]

Ps, with ours I slapped on a Grundfos booster pump so we get 4 bars of pressure. Better than mains pressure that is.

 

[welger]

Ps, with ours I slapped on a Grundfos booster pump so we get 4 bars of pressure. Better than mains pressure that is.

had ours a week now at first we had got 7 bar blow a lot of pipes off the tanks ,turn it down now to 5 bar.before we ha got just 1 bar off the mains and costing £55 a week to water 160 fat cattle and spray 120 acre of corn,so we took a punt on a borehole.

 

[milkloss]

I know it’s variable but what does it cost to sink a borehole? I expect we will have a high iron content too and I expect would neeed treating.

 

[quavers]

I know it’s variable but what does it cost to sink a borehole? I expect we will have a high iron content too and I expect would neeed treating.

local guy talks about £3.5 k to drill and line bore hole pumps and filters extra.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

if you are in Wales, it is part of the new grant scheme (unless you drilled it and paid for it, before the grant scheme was announced ggggrrrrrrrr)

 

[Maico490]

Rule of thumb from a local installer is that a spring will have bacteria and a borehole will have chemicals. UV will deal with the former but treating borehole water can get expensive. Iron and manganese are the main problems with all of the ones here locally.(North Cornwall)

 

[stablegirl]

We have a bore hole currently running a 300 cow dairy but we use mains for the house and washing out the dairy.

The bore hole has 0 filtration on it and does leave some limescale behind, what sort of filtration set up would i require to run the house and dairy off the borehole and what sort of money would it cost?

 

[Netherfield]

We have a bore hole currently running a 300 cow dairy but we use mains for the house and washing out the dairy.

The bore hole has 0 filtration on it and does leave some limescale behind, what sort of filtration set up would i require to run the house and dairy off the borehole and what sort of money would it cost?

Probably nobody on here can answer that, so many variables, you need a water engineer to give you a quote, https://www.daleswater.co.uk/ come highly recommended.


Our bores were drilled by Dales water, after seeing the setup they had installed for the Yorkshire Show.

 

[upnortheast]

Another vote for Dales Water.
Ours looks like this to deal with high Manganese , Iron & soften it
Also UV filter to catch any bacteria.
Ours sized at up to 20 cu m day cost about £15k for complete job - 4 years ago
(Drilling the hole is often the cheapest bit ) Hole is 70m deep, pump sits at 30m down
Water fine for cows & milk bottling plant Paid for itself in < 2 years