Drilling & boring

Horizontal drilling contractors in Fulton County

Horizontal drilling is the general term; the crossing decides whether it is a steered bore or a jacked casing. Both are on the truck.

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Serving Atlanta · Fulton County

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.

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

(678) 264-3333

Steered or straight

Ask for a horizontal bore in Atlanta and you will get one of two things. A directional drill steers a curved path from a shallow pit, under the obstacle and back up: the tool for conduit, water, gas and anything else under pressure. An auger boring machine jacks a straight steel casing on a fixed grade from a deeper pit: the tool for railroads, most GDOT crossings and gravity sewer. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. owns both and chooses by the crossing, not by what is parked outside.

Jobs that come up in Fulton County

Conduit under a Buckhead parking deck ramp from the transformer to the building.
A water or gas service under a Roswell or Alpharetta driveway and the trees along it.
Fiber along a North Fulton arterial, shot by shot under the side streets.
A cased crossing under a rail spur in Fairburn or Union City.
Sleeves under a new subdivision road in Milton before it is paved.

Ground

Fulton County is Piedmont: a few feet of red clay over saprolite, and under that the granite and gneiss that show at the surface as outcrops in the parks and the road cuts. North of the city the rock can be within reach of a shallow bore; along the Chattahoochee and the creeks it is deeper under alluvium. A crew that drills Atlanta every week carries the bit, the mud motor and the patience for it.

On the day

Georgia 811 marks, potholes at every crossing, two pits, a tracked pilot bore, a reamed hole, the product pulled back, pits restored. Most residential and light commercial bores in the county are a single day. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Powder Springs, a short drive west of the Perimeter, so Fulton County is home territory: no mobilization fee, a site walk within days, and a crew that has already drilled the rock under Buckhead, the clay in Alpharetta and the fill around the airport. Davis Underground Solutions shows the rigs. Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.

Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.

Other drilling and boring services in Fulton County

Directional Drilling Fulton County

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 Fulton 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 Fulton 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 Fulton 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 Fulton County

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

Underground Conduit Drilling Fulton 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 Fulton 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 Fulton County

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

Communications Drilling Fulton County

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

Missile Boring Fulton 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 Fulton 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 Fulton 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 horizontal drilling in Fulton County

How deep under a driveway?+

Three to four feet below the slab on a private drive; public streets and GDOT routes are set by the permit.

Several conduits in one bore?+

Yes. A bundle pulled back together through one reamed hole is the normal way to place power and communications side by side.

What is the difference between horizontal drilling and auger boring?+

Steered and curved versus straight and cased. The crossing decides.

Access on both sides?+

A small pit at each end. The receiving pit can be a planting strip or a patched cut.

Free estimate?+

Yes. Call (678) 264-3333 now or put the run in the form on this page; a site walk in Fulton County follows within days.

Horizontal Drilling by city in Fulton 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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