Boring Under Concrete Driveway

Dig a trench on one side of the driveway and an exit hole aligned with the trench on the other.

Boring under concrete driveway.

50 year old galvenized pipe is failing and replacing it requires getting under over or around a 12 foot wide concrete patio. Keep the pipe level with the bottom of the trench and jab the boring tool into the soil. Our supply line runs to the house through the yard. The line goes under the retaining wall that divides the lower west side of the yard from the upper.

These tools have 16 inch long narrow blades that will create a 6 or 7 inch diameter hole. The borit is capable of boring more than 60 feet under any concrete or asphalt including sidewalks driveways golf cart paths patios and even streets. Showing how we bury lines and bore driveways for tv providers. 6 push both the 1 3 4 inch and the 3 4 inch pipe forward to start boring the hole under the driveway.

The dirt will appear to plug the end of the nozzle just leave the nozzle in place for 15 to 30 seconds to allow the water to loosen the soil. The borit is lightweight only 3 pounds hand held and it fits onto an electrical gasoline hammer or pneumatic industrial drill. Putting a hose inside the pvc pipe and turn the tap on and push the pipe under the drive that is how plumbers do it if they can t excavate. Turn on the water and shove the pipe under the driveway.

This video was made in september 7 2019. Just imagine the labor savings. Grab hold of the pipe fitting the pipe into the trench may intitially require some flexing. You can use a modified version with steel pipe since we are a licensed.

Bring the trench that you are digging up to the obstacle. Pull back on the pipe and return to pushing. You can dig pathways by hand with a special duck billed shovel. If you are confronted with a sidewalk a 3 to 6 foot obstacle you can generally manually horizontal bore under the sidewalk using a garden hose and a piece of 1 2 inch steel pipe.

The real risk with this is undermining your driveway. But the limit of the digging is limited to about half the length of the shovel. Horizontal boring or horizontal drilling.