Utility Drilling · Orange County
Utility Drilling in Taft, FL
Taft work for a drilling crew is the line that has to cross something it cannot cut through: a county road, a brick street, a resort lot, a canal between two lakes. A pit at each end, a steered bore between them, and the pipe or conduit is pulled back through with the surface untouched.
Serving Taft · Orange County
Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.
Utility drilling and every other boring method, with locates, bore plan and permits handled. More about Davis Underground Solutions →
Utility Drilling in Taft: what gets installed
Utility drilling for water, sewer, gas, power and telecom owners: permitted road crossings, mains under live streets, services to the meter.
How a bore in Taft is done
The job in Taft starts before the rig arrives: the Sunshine 811 ticket, a walk of the alignment, and a bore plan that threads the marked utilities and anything the locate cannot see. The pilot hole is drilled with a steerable head and tracked from the surface rod by rod, reamed to size, and the product is pulled back through in one pass. The sand bores fast; the fluid holds the hole below the water table.
Hiring a utility drilling contractor in Taft
The crew that drills Taft should have drilled Florida sand with the water table at its feet before; the ground and the permit agencies here are not the same as the next county over. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. owns its rigs and crews and quotes from a site walk, and the estimate costs nothing.
The full write-up for the county is on the utility drilling page for Orange County.
Estimates are free. Call now: (855) 520-2670.
Questions about utility drilling in Taft
Pipe sizes?+
Services through mains in the 4- to 16-inch range by directional drill, larger by cased auger bore.
Pipe sizes?+
Services through mains in the 4- to 16-inch range by directional drill, larger by cased auger bore.
Will the bore damage my driveway or landscaping in Taft?+
No. The surface between the two pits is never opened; the pits are small, the drilling fluid is contained with a vac truck, and the pits are restored when the line is in.
Other drilling and boring services in Taft
Directional Drilling Taft
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD): a steered bore between two small pits that puts conduit, pipe and cable under roads, driveways, parking lots and landscaping with no open trench.
Horizontal Drilling Taft
Horizontal drilling for any line that has to cross something it cannot cut through: a street, a slab, a canal, a stand of trees. Entry pit, exit pit, nothing opened in between.
Directional Boring Taft
Directional boring is the small-rig end of HDD: short, shallow bores for service lines, sleeves and conduit on residential and light-commercial lots.
Underground Drilling Taft
Underground drilling for new utilities where the surface is spoken for: tracked, steered bores placed under whatever is already built on top.
Fiber Optic Cable Drilling Taft
Fiber duct and drop conduit installed by directional drill for carriers, co-ops, campuses and developments: long shots along the right-of-way, short shots to the building.
Electrical Conduit Drilling Taft
PVC and HDPE electrical conduit bored under pavement for primary feeds, secondary services, site lighting and EV charging circuits.
Underground Conduit Drilling Taft
Single ducts and multi-duct bundles pulled through one reamed bore: communications, power, controls and spares placed together under the obstacle.
Structured Cable Drilling Taft
Conduit between buildings for structured cabling, campus networks, security and controls, bored under courtyards, drives and parking rather than cut across them.
Communications Drilling Taft
Communications conduit and cable placed by directional drill: telecom, cable TV, cell-site backhaul and private networks, under roads and lots.
Missile Boring Taft
Missile boring (pneumatic piercing) drives a steel mole through the soil for short, straight, shallow runs under a driveway or sidewalk: the quickest way to sleeve a lawn or a walk.
Auger Boring and Drilling Taft
Cased auger bores for road, highway and railroad crossings and for gravity sewer that has to hold an exact grade: a straight steel casing jacked from a pit.
Sewer, Water and Drain Lines Taft
New water services and mains, sewer force mains and laterals, and storm drains installed under roads, driveways and yards without trenching them open.
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