Hi all, it's looking like we may have to get a new outfall drain for a block of land so I'm wondering if anyone has a rough idea of the cost involved in getting a 12 inch pipe under a road?(two lanes) There's plenty of services in the way so has to be done properly, as nice as it would be to just hammer a long bar through haha!
Cost to put a main drain under a road
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Richy12
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- Location
- Fermanagh, N Ireland
Can't you go under the existing services and get a contractor with a ditch witch?
- Location
- North West
Did one 15 years ago , 6 inch sewer pipe , about 8k
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Could you bore it, or will it need digging up? You'll be surprised what they can do with a boring rig.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Recently had a 6” pipe directional drilled under the road. Wasn’t anything like the figures quoted here, far cheaper.
It could be bored I imagine, fields are a couple of feet below the road so ought to be able to get under services depending how accurately they can survey?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Be worth getting someone who does it and who is adequately insured for infrastructure to come quote. Was going to cost me a grand to go under a single track road with a 6" duct. Chaps were pretty happy they could dodge services but weren't that many. Need to own both bits of land to dig the bore pits in, and have a happy highways department.
- Location
- Yorkshire
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Thanks all, hopefully the existing pipe can be fixed, but it's (well) off our land and no one will admit its there problem but hey ho, iv a feeling one of the guys at cricket is something to do with a drill rig but don't know if they can directional drill
How big can they send a mole nowadays? Might be as well with several six inch pipes spread out a bit if a mole would do that?
How big can they send a mole nowadays? Might be as well with several six inch pipes spread out a bit if a mole would do that?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
12" bore, 150m no problem even for a small machine. Big gear can do very long runs.
- Location
- sw scotland
Bore a 3 foot gas pipe under 2 lanes. Not sure I would have liked the bill as a massive hole either side
- Location
- Near Colchester
I had a pipe put 9m under a road - £750 plus vat, it was only 3 inch but the chap would do bigger easily he said
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
That needs doing properly with a licence, hit a service can cost huge sums especially a Telecom cable
Fibre optic are the worst ones to hit,will be a 7 figure fee to fix
It really shouldn’t be the case . I think they have historically made a huge fuss about fibre cables because joe bloggs doesn’t understand it . Digger operator and a fibre splicer for a few hours and several phone calls later and all but the most humongous fibre cable can be repaired.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
It’s more the consequential loss.
And very big companies sending out repair/loss bills with Monopoly money figures most cannot contest.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Had a neighbour helping out a builder friend near by 20 years ago. They hit a big trelecoms cable and had a bill for £35k
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