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Boreing a Well for New Build - Price/Suppliers

  • 21-07-2011 11:02am
    #1
    Lemlin
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    Nearing the completion of my new build and at this stage and am looking at water system. Does anyone know the cost of boring a well and have recommendations of companies which do it?

    I can sign up to local group water scheme for about 2k I'm told but boring my own well may be another option.


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  • #2
    FergusD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭FergusD


    As with everything in the self-build world, the answer is... it depends...

    For me, I didn't have the option of a group scheme, so I knew I was drilling from the start. The companies involved quote per foot to drill and you may hit water at any depth, I think I was told that generally it's between 100 and 300 feet. If you have neighbours who did it, they may be able to tell you what depth they went to. Depending on the ground conditions you may need lining down a long way which again may be extra. My well is 300 ft deep (strange that it's at the max outlined at the start, isn't it?) and I think I paid 12 Euro/ft all in, but I'd need to check that.

    On top of the cost of drilling, you also need to factor in a pump and potentially a water softener which consumes salt for ion-exchange. A deep water pump costs more than a shallow one (of course), but between the two of these you could be looking at another 2k or so. Once you drill the well you need to get it tested (can't remember the test cost, but not expensive) to see what's in it and if it needs further treatment, so again you may have additional costs here for treatment. Salt costs aren't huge for us so far, a bag seems to last us a couple of weeks on a metered softener (family of 6, but younger kids).

    On the plus side, the water from our well tastes as good as bottled water and we have complete control over pipework etc. so don't plan to ever have anything freeze on us. In theory we also won't have to pay water charges, but I'll wait and see how that pans out.

    Hope this helps,

    Fergus.


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