Directional drilling contractors in St Petersburg, FL

When a line has to cross a street, a parking lot or a stand of mature trees in St Petersburg, the cheapest-looking option is rarely to dig. Horizontal directional drilling puts the pipe in from two small pits, steering a pilot bore along a planned path and then pulling the product line back through it. Restoration is a couple of patches instead of a scar across the property.

In Florida the listed contractor is Davis Underground Solutions, Inc., based in Powder Springs, Georgia, which drills across the Southeast and quotes any mobilization up front. See Davis Underground Solutions's Florida drilling page for the crew, the equipment and recent projects, or call (855) 520-2670; estimates are free.

Serving St Petersburg and all of Florida

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.

Directional drilling, auger boring and utility installation; locates, bore plan and permits handled. It's boring. But we dig it.

(855) 520-2670

What is in the ground in St Petersburg

Sand over limestone almost everywhere, with a water table often a few feet down; central Florida adds karst and sinkhole-prone ground, and the Panhandle has more clay. Drilling fluid returns and inadvertent returns into wetlands get close attention.

Reclaimed-water mains, fiber and power for new communities, lift-station force mains and canal and roadway crossings run year-round, with FDOT and water-management-district permits on most jobs. Locate requests in Florida go through Sunshine 811; crossings of state routes are permitted by FDOT.

How a bore in St Petersburg is done

The work in St Petersburg starts before the rig arrives. The contractor files a locate request with Sunshine 811, walks the alignment, and plans the bore depth and curve around the marked utilities and anything the locate cannot see, such as private lines, septic systems and old abandoned pipe. The pilot bore is tracked from the surface every rod, so the crew knows exactly where the head is in relation to what it must miss.

Hiring a drilling contractor in St Petersburg

Price per foot is the least useful number on a St Petersburg drilling quote. The things that change the cost are the ground, the diameter, the depth the permit forces, the length of the run and how much of the site has to stay open to traffic. Get the quote broken out that way, confirm who pulls permits and calls in locates, and compare contractors on the finished crossing rather than the footage rate.

Estimates are free. Call now: (855) 520-2670.