Horizontal Drilling · Fulton County
Horizontal Drilling in Johns Creek, GA
Work in Johns Creek for a drilling crew is the line that has to cross something it cannot cut through: a street the city just resurfaced, a driveway, a parking lot, a creek with a buffer or a row of oaks. A pit at each end, a steered bore between them, and the pipe or conduit is pulled back through with the surface untouched.
Serving Johns Creek · Fulton County
Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.
Horizontal drilling and every other boring method, with locates, bore plan and permits handled. More about Davis Underground Solutions →
Horizontal Drilling in Johns Creek: what gets installed
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.
Johns Creek is subdivisions, schools and office campuses on rolling Piedmont ground; most bores are services and campus conduit under new pavement.
How a bore in Johns Creek is done
The job in Johns Creek starts before the rig arrives: the Georgia 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, then reamed to size, and the product is pulled back through in one pass. Rock, when it shows up, changes the bit and the pace, not the method.
Hiring a horizontal drilling contractor in Johns Creek
The crew that drills Johns Creek should have put lines under this ground before; the rock, the roots and the permit agencies here are not the same as the next county over. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. owns its rigs and crews, quotes from a site walk, and the estimate costs nothing.
The full write-up for the county is on the horizontal drilling page for Fulton County.
Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.
Questions about horizontal drilling in Johns Creek
What is the difference between horizontal drilling and auger boring?+
Steered and curved versus straight and cased. The crossing decides.
What is the difference between horizontal drilling and auger boring?+
Steered and curved versus straight and cased. The crossing decides.
Will the bore damage my driveway or landscaping in Johns Creek?+
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 backfilled and restored when the line is in.
Other drilling and boring services in Johns Creek
Directional Drilling Johns Creek
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.
Directional Boring Johns Creek
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 Johns Creek
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 Johns Creek
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 Johns Creek
PVC and HDPE electrical conduit bored under pavement for primary feeds, secondary services, site lighting and EV charging circuits.
Underground Conduit Drilling Johns Creek
Single ducts and multi-duct bundles pulled through one reamed bore: communications, power, controls and spares placed together under the obstacle.
Structured Cable Drilling Johns Creek
Conduit between buildings for structured cabling, campus networks, security and controls, bored under courtyards, drives and parking rather than cut across them.
Utility Drilling Johns Creek
Utility drilling for water, sewer, gas, power and telecom owners: permitted road crossings, mains under live streets, services to the meter.
Communications Drilling Johns Creek
Communications conduit and cable placed by directional drill: telecom, cable TV, cell-site backhaul and private networks, under roads and lots.
Missile Boring Johns Creek
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 Johns Creek
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 Johns Creek
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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