Drilling & boring

Directional drilling in Orlando and Orange County

Orange County is lakes, sand and pavement that never closes. Directional drilling is how a new line gets from one side of any of them to the other without a trench.

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Serving Orlando · Orange County

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.

Directional drilling and boring across Florida; locates, bore plan and utility coordination handled. More about Davis Underground Solutions →

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Why Orlando bores

Look at a map of Orange County and the problem is obvious: the ground is cut up by lakes, by the I-4 and toll-road corridors, by SunRail and the CSX line, and by resort and retail parking that earns money every hour it is open. A utility that has to cross any of those cannot do it in a trench. A directional drill does it from two pits: a steerable pilot bore is drilled under the obstacle, tracked from the surface, reamed to size, and the pipe or conduit is pulled back through. The lake stays a lake, the lot stays open and the brick street in Thornton Park is never touched.

Sand, lakes and sinkholes

Central Florida sits on fine sand over clayey sand, with the limestone of the Floridan aquifer a few dozen feet below. The sand bores fast and holds a fluid-filled hole well. The water table follows the lakes and is a few feet down across much of the county, which is why open cuts here fill with water and bores do not. Karst is the local caution: a crew drilling Orange County keeps fluid pressures modest, watches the returns and treats any sudden loss of fluid as a void until proven otherwise.

Who permits what

Orange County Public Works for county roads, the City of Orlando for its streets, FDOT District 5 for I-4 and the state routes, the Central Florida Expressway Authority for the 408, 417, 429 and 528, and the railroads for the SunRail and CSX corridor. Sunshine 811 opens every job and the locate is honored at the pits.

Who owns the lines

OUC runs electric and water inside the city, Duke Energy and Orange County Utilities take over outside it, TECO Peoples Gas runs the gas, and the fiber builders have been adding duct along every arterial for years. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. coordinates with all of them and leaves an as-built when the owner wants one.

The company on this page

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. is a Georgia drilling contractor with its own directional rigs, auger boring machines, vac truck and crews, and Florida is part of the territory it travels. Mobilization is written as one line on the estimate so an Orlando owner sees the whole number up front. Davis Underground Solutions has the equipment list and project photos. Every call to (855) 520-2670 and every form on this site goes to the company directly. Estimates are free.

What sets the price

Length, the product's size and material, what the bore crosses and the cover the permit requires, the ground, and room on the surface for the rig and the pipe string. Send a sketch through the form and you will have an answer within 24 hours.

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Other drilling and boring services in Orange County

Horizontal Drilling Orange County

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 Orange County

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 Orange County

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 Orange County

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 Orange County

PVC and HDPE electrical conduit bored under pavement for primary feeds, secondary services, site lighting and EV charging circuits.

Underground Conduit Drilling Orange County

Single ducts and multi-duct bundles pulled through one reamed bore: communications, power, controls and spares placed together under the obstacle.

Structured Cable Drilling Orange County

Conduit between buildings for structured cabling, campus networks, security and controls, bored under courtyards, drives and parking rather than cut across them.

Utility Drilling Orange County

Utility drilling for water, sewer, gas, power and telecom owners: permitted road crossings, mains under live streets, services to the meter.

Communications Drilling Orange County

Communications conduit and cable placed by directional drill: telecom, cable TV, cell-site backhaul and private networks, under roads and lots.

Missile Boring Orange County

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 Orange County

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 Orange County

New water services and mains, sewer force mains and laterals, and storm drains installed under roads, driveways and yards without trenching them open.

Questions about directional drilling in Orange County

How deep is a bore under an Orange County road?+

To the cover the county, the city, FDOT or CFX requires for that road, plus clearance from the utilities already there; four to six feet is common under a county road and more under the toll roads and I-4.

Can you drill near the lakes?+

Yes. Lakefront lots and lake-to-lake canals are routine; the fluid-supported bore does not care where the water table is, and the pits are kept back from the shoreline as the permit requires.

What about sinkholes?+

The crew drills with modest fluid pressure, watches returns and stops if fluid disappears. Karst is managed on every central Florida job; it is not a reason to trench.

Is there a travel charge to Orlando?+

Florida work can carry a mobilization line, since the rigs are based in Georgia. It is shown on the estimate so there are no surprises, and several bores on one trip share it.

How do I get an estimate?+

Call (855) 520-2670 now or send the run through the form: length, what goes in, what it crosses, the address. Estimates are free; reply within 24 hours.

Directional Drilling by city in Orange County

Each community has its own page for this service. The crew, the method and the price are the same across the county; the page covers what is different about the ground and the permits there.

ZIP codes served

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