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For all your commercial and residential directional drilling (trenchless boring) needs. Fast affordable service at a great price. Do you need new utilities installed or replaced without disrupting landscaping or have pavement or other obstructions that make trenching or overhead installation undesirable? Give us a call! Serving the Oregon and Washington Portland/Vancouver Metro and surrounding areas as well as most of the Pacific Northwest for larger projects.  Directional Drilling (Trenchless "Underground" Directional Boring) Directional boring, commonly called horizontal directional drilling or HDD, is a method of installing underground pipes and conduits along a prescribed bore path from the surface, with minimal impact to the surrounding area. In most cases, a small hole is opened to connect to the utility and possibly another at the destination or structure, often with no visible disturbance to the surrounding area in between. Longer bores may require additional small access holes to increase the overall length of a bore from the starting point to the destination. Applications Boring/Directional Drilling is used for installing telecommunications & power cable conduits, water lines, sewer lines, gas lines, oil lines, geothermal, and product pipelines. It is often the preferred and sometimes required method used for crossing waterways, roadways, shore approaches, congested areas, environmentally sensitive areas and any area where other methods are more intrusive and often much more expensive. Directional boring is used in place of other techniques for the following reasons: # Less traffic disruption # Lower cost # Deeper installation possible # Longer installation possible # No access pit required # Faster completion times # Directional capabilities # Safer for the environment Horizontal boring for specialty projects such as geothermal HDPE pipe installation are not only environmentally non-invasive but may also qualify for federal and state "Green" tax breaks while also saving energy and lowering your heating/cooling costs for many many years. Our drilling rigs are able to bore and install geothermal pipe in open or closed loop systems where others may require a larger area for the same pipe lengths due to greater turning capability (faster/tighter turns). Concrete or other inaccessible or valuable flooring often creates problems for remodeling/renovation. Horizontal boring allows creating new paths from the outside of a building or from points inside by creating a precise boring path from where a new service is installed or from where an existing service is located, to a new location. Rather than opening a path between, it is usually much more cost effective and faster to bore between and create a single new opening down to the new path and pulling whatever service is needed up to the new location. Whether in an area of tightly packed underground utilities or in remote areas where it is desirable to not disrupt surface landscaping or vegetation, horizontal boring is a great solution. No need to make huge unsightly trenches and remove trees or other obstacles when a path may be drilled from almost any distance. Costs Directional boring has evolved steadily over the past 20 years and is now the preferred method on many installations due to its low cost and low impact on surroundings. It is generally less expensive than other methods such as micro-tunneling, jack & bore and open trenching in urban areas. In urban areas it can not only save a considerable amount on installation cost it can provide a tremendous amount of public goodwill. We work directly with the home or business owner or may be recommended/referred or sub-contracted by your service installer. Feel free to refer us to your service installer. Budget Boring has working relationships with quite a large number of utility installation businesses in and around the Portland/Vancouver area. |