Need borehole drilling in Durban? SubmersiblePump.co.za puts homeowners, farms, businesses and contractors in Durban in touch with borehole drillers serving Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal. Send one request and you receive quotes directly, free and with no obligation.
Borehole Drilling in Durban
Thinking of drilling a borehole in Durban? Send the area, what the water is for, how much access a rig has, and what holes nearby have found if you know, so drillers who work in Durban and across KwaZulu-Natal can quote rates per metre, casing and testing.
The main borehole drilling page explains the types, the sizing and the costs in more detail.
Durban notes on installation, repairs & parts
Rewinders and pump repair workshops in Jacobs, Mobeni and Springfield Park take in burnt motors from basements, factories and pool owners, and salt air means corroded terminals and seized bearings show up often. Pump hire yards carry wellpoint sets, diesel trash pumps and lay-flat hose for contractors and flood clean ups. Ask about a service contract for basement sumps and pressure sets, so pumps and floats are tested before the summer rain arrives.
Durban: the properties, the water and the pump shops
Durban pumps more water out than in. The city sits on sandy coastal ground with a high water table near the beachfront, the Point and the harbour, so basements, lift pits and new foundations fill up quickly, and contractors in the south basin often run wellpoints or submersible dewatering pumps for weeks. Heavy summer storms, and floods like the ones that hit the metro in April 2022, send storm water into garages and sumps from Umhlanga to Chatsworth. On the water supply side, many suburbs have had outages from burst mains and aging pipes, which is why tanks and booster pumps are common on the Berea and in Phoenix. Pump shops and rewinders cluster in Jacobs, Mobeni, Prospecton and along Umgeni Road.
Who asks for borehole drilling around Durban, most often first:
- Offices, shops, hotels and lodges: a lodge, school or hotel drilling a borehole for backup water
- Factories, plants and depots: a factory borehole for process water, with licensing checked first
- Complexes, estates and body corporates: a communal borehole drilled for the gardens of a complex or security estate
Local tips for Durban
Pump suppliers serving Durban mostly work from here: jacobs, Mobeni, Prospecton, Springfield Park and Umgeni Road. The jobs that come up most: basement sump pumps, wellpoint dewatering, tank and booster pumps for outages. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the sump has a second pump or a high level alarm for storm nights.
Sizes vary: often 30 to 150 m deep, sometimes deeper. Here, offices, shops, hotels and lodges lead the requests, typically for a lodge, school or hotel drilling a borehole for backup water. One local point to raise: workshops in the south basin and Springfield reach most of the metro the same day.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Pump suppliers and technicians on our network work in Durban and surrounding areas, including Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. Give your suburb or farm, so the call-out and travel can be quoted honestly.