Road and driveway crossings
Install products beneath established surfaces while reducing the length of open excavation and reinstatement required.
The bore is not the whole job
The machine does not make the decisions.
Successful HDD work starts well before the drill head enters the ground.
The proposed alignment, existing services, entry and exit positions, product, tooling, drilling fluid, access and actual ground conditions all affect the result.
We plan the installation as a complete job, then bring the drilling, locating, hydro excavation and support equipment needed to carry it out.
A drilling machine does not automatically make someone a drilling contractor.
Typical applications
Less trench. Less disruption.
HDD is useful where opening the entire route would be expensive, disruptive, impractical or generally unpopular.
Power and communications
Ducts and product routes for power, fibre and telecommunications infrastructure in urban and civil environments.
Water, gas and utilities
Trenchless installation support for underground utility products where alignment, clearances and bore control matter.
Established sites
Work beneath lawns, footpaths, landscaping and developed areas without turning the full route into an excavation.
Urban service shots
Compact set-ups for constrained sites where there is still enough room to complete the job safely and properly.
Longer installations
Staged and larger installations using the drill, tooling and support arrangement suited to the actual scope.
How we approach it
Plan it. Prove it. Drill it.
Not revolutionary. Still surprisingly effective.
Understand the scope
Product, diameter, route, length, programme, access and what the finished installation actually needs to achieve.
Review the site
Entry and exit positions, set-up space, traffic, surfaces, existing assets and obvious ways the paper plan may fail.
Locate and expose
Trace known services and pothole critical crossings so the bore is based on physical information, not optimism.
Select the method
Drill, tooling, bore path, reaming stages, fluids, product handling and the support equipment required.
Complete the installation
Drill, ream, install the product, deal with changing conditions and leave the job ready for its next stage.
Depth is not a strategy
Going deep is not the same as drilling well.
Sometimes the correct bore is deep. Diving under every known service because holding a controlled profile is harder is not the same thing.
A proper depth comes from the product, required cover, bend radius, entry and exit geometry, ground conditions, clearances, corridor requirements and future access. It is not chosen by pointing the head down until the crossing stops being inconvenient.
Every unnecessary metre below the surface becomes somebody else's excavation later. Tie-ins get deeper. Repairs need more spoil, wider batters or shoring. Maintenance takes longer, costs more and exposes people to a bigger hole.
Road corridors are shared space. The job is to install the asset safely, with the required separation, at a sensible risk-assessed depth that can still be located, connected to and maintained.
A deep bore can be correct. An unnecessarily deep bore is a confession.
- Meet required cover without inventing maximum cover
- Maintain deliberate separation at every crossing
- Hold a controlled and traceable bore profile
- Respect product bend radius and pullback limits
- Consider future connections, repairs and maintenance
- Record accurate depth and alignment information
- Change the plan when conditions genuinely require it
- Do not bury today's problem for tomorrow's crew
Depth is a design decision.
Not an escape route.
Directional drilling fleet
JT922 and JT1720 capability.
The fleet gives us options for compact urban work and more demanding installations rather than attempting to make one machine fit every site.
Machine selection depends on product size, bore length, ground, access, alignment and the support equipment needed to finish the work.
See our equipmentWhat helps us price it
Send the useful bits.
You do not need a flawless tender package. You do need enough information for us to understand what is being installed and where the obvious risk sits.
We would rather identify missing information early than price a fantasy.
- Site address and contact person
- Plans or marked-up aerial image
- Proposed alignment
- Product type and diameter
- Approximate bore length
- Entry and exit constraints
- Known underground services
- Required programme and access limits
If the quote assumes the ground, services, access and product will all behave perfectly, it is not a plan.
It is a wish with a dollar sign in front of it.Holland Underground
Have a bore to price?
Send the location, plans, product details and approximate length. We will work through the rest.