Contact
Borehole Drilling Durban

Tell us about your property and what you need the water for, and we will come back to you with a quote or an honest answer about whether a borehole makes sense for your site.

Get in Touch

• Phone: 075 99 777 65
• WhatsApp: Message us on WhatsApp
• Quote form: use the form further down this page, or the quick quote form.
• Area covered: greater Durban, the North and South Coast (Ballito and Stanger to Scottburgh) and Pietermaritzburg.

What to Include in Your Enquiry

The more of this you can give us, the more useful our first reply will be:

• Your address or suburb - geology varies across Durban, so this shapes everything else
• What the water is for - garden irrigation, household supply, pool, livestock, process water
• Property type and size, and the area under irrigation if that is the main use
• Access - whether a truck-mounted rig can reach a suitable position, and any gate or overhead constraints
• Whether a borehole already exists, and if so its depth, age and what it is doing now
• Any existing reports - yield test, water analysis or installation records

If You Have an Existing Borehole Problem

For a fault on an existing system, describing the symptom precisely gets you a far more useful response than reporting that the borehole is not working. Useful detail includes what exactly happens, when it started, whether it came on suddenly or gradually, and whether anything was worked on beforehand. The borehole repairs page sets out the common symptoms and what each one usually points to.

Before You Drill

Two things worth knowing before you commit to anything. In eThekwini, current reporting lists the metro among those where a borehole must be registered with the municipality once drilling is complete, and the Water By-law requires a borehole system to be kept separate from the municipal supply unless backflow is prevented. In Msunduzi, KwaDukuza and Umdoni, check the municipality's current requirements. Reasonable domestic use generally falls under Schedule 1 of the National Water Act, while commercial, agricultural or larger abstraction may require registration or a water use authorisation from the Department of Water and Sanitation. Rules change, so confirm the current position before drilling rather than afterwards.

And nobody can guarantee that a borehole will find water. A water survey improves the odds, but the risk is real and any contractor offering certainty is overselling.