Domestic · Estates · Farms · Commercial
From the sand plains of Milnerton to the granite slopes of Constantia, we have drilled water for Capetonians since 2009. Own rigs, own crews, honest advice — and a fixed written quote before a single wheel turns.
15+ years drilling
Western Cape ground
350+ boreholes completed
and commissioned
6 dedicated rigs —
no subcontractors
12-mth workmanship
guarantee, in writing
What we do
One contractor for the whole water journey — survey, drilling, pump, paperwork and after-care. No handballing you between suppliers.
Rotary air-percussion drilling through Cape Town's toughest geology — Table Mountain sandstone, granite and Malmesbury shale. Domestic holes from 40 m to 150 m+, cased and gravel-packed to standard.
Most homes hit water between 60 m and 90 m.
Request this serviceWe size submersible pumps to your tested yield — not to our margin. Every install includes safety rope, dry-run protection and a proper dedicated supply.
Installed and commissioned in one day.
Request this serviceStep-drawdown and constant-rate tests with a written capacity report — the paperwork your insurer, municipality or irrigation designer will ask for.
Reports issued within three working days.
Request this serviceLaboratory testing against SANS 241 for drinking use, plus iron, manganese and hardness treatment where results demand it. You get numbers you can act on, not a vague "looks fine".
Accredited lab, full written report.
Request this serviceBlocked screens, failing pumps, dropping yields. Camera inspection, cleaning, chemical rehabilitation and pump repairs — with straight advice about when a repair stops making sense.
Priority response for existing clients.
Request this serviceStorage tanks, booster pumps, filtration and garden or drip irrigation tied into your new supply. One contractor, one accountable system.
Load-shedding-ready setups available.
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Who we are
Borehole Drilling Cape Town started in 2009 with one second-hand rig and a borrowed bakkie. Fifteen years later we run six modern rigs across the city — and we still answer our own phones.
What sets us apart is local ground knowledge. Drilling Milnerton's sands is nothing like punching through Durbanville's clay or Constantia's granite, and promising a depth over the phone before we have seen your erf is how cowboys pad invoices. We visit, we read the geology, then we quote.
Pieter & Anja du Toit
Owners, Borehole Drilling Cape Town
Why choose us
We do not subcontract a single metre of drilling. The people who quote your job are the people on the rig — which is exactly why our quotes hold and our deadlines do too.
Every quote starts with a free site assessment: geology, access, overhead clearances and where the water is most likely to sit. You get an honest depth expectation, not a sales pitch.
The rand value on your written quote is the rand value on your invoice. If we hit unexpected conditions, we stop, show you, and agree the way forward before continuing.
Ground boards under the rig, spoil containment from hour one, and a site walk-through with you before we leave. Your landscaper will thank you.
A 12-month workmanship guarantee, annual service plans, and a workshop that keeps common pump spares on the shelf. When you call, a person answers.
Recent work
A sample of jobs our crews have completed in the last year — different suburbs, different geology, same standard.
Deep hole through decomposed granite for a family tired of municipal restrictions. Yield test came back strong enough to run garden irrigation and pool top-up with headroom to spare.
New-build estate plot drilled and plumbed into a three-zone garden irrigation system with a tidy pump room — filter, booster and controller all labelled for the new owner's gardener.
Shallow but hungry: sandy soils meant fast drilling but heavy casing. The club's fields now stay green through summer without touching municipal supply.
A 140 m hole feeding two pumps and 20 000 litres of storage for a guest farmhouse, orchard and vine rows — drilled between harvest rows without damaging a single vine.
Client feedback
"They arrived when they said they would, drilled where they said they would, and the invoice matched the quote to the rand. In this industry that counts for a lot."
"Pieter talked us out of the bigger pump we thought we needed because our yield test did not justify it. Honest people."
"Our smallholding ran on borehole water through two dry summers without a single day without water. The service plan keeps everything humming."
"The site was spotless when they left — my wife still cannot believe it. Three days, one mess-free borehole, water on tap."
Feedback from recent jobs; surnames shortened at clients' request.
Common questions
Most domestic projects land between R65 000 and R130 000 including the pump, depending on depth, geology and site access. After a free site visit you receive a fixed written quote — the price we quote is the price you pay.
The City of Cape Town requires that boreholes and wellpoints are registered. We complete and submit the registration on your behalf as part of every job, so the paperwork is done before the rig arrives.
It depends entirely on geology. Milnerton's sands often give water at 30–50 m, Durbanville's clays can run past 70 m, and Constantia's granite is variable. We never promise a depth before surveying your site — and you only pay for metres actually drilled, agreed upfront.
Not automatically. We test against SANS 241 before you drink anything, and many Cape Town aquifers carry iron or manganese that needs treatment. Where lab results call for it, we install the right treatment system and re-test to confirm.
A domestic hole typically takes one to three days on site. Pump installation and commissioning usually add another day once yield testing is complete. Access constraints can add time — we flag those at the site visit.
Service areas
Based in Kraaifontein, our crews work anywhere within about 60 km of the city bowl — every suburb listed here gets the same free assessments and the same crews, seven rigs deep... six, if one is down for service.
Not sure if you fall inside our area? Phone the office — if we can't reach you, we'll tell you who honestly can.
Check my areaFree on-site assessments Monday to Saturday. Fixed written quotes within two working days of the visit.
Contact
Tell us what you need and where the plot is — we'll come out, assess the site and put a fixed number on paper. No obligation, no pressure.
No-water emergencies from existing installations are prioritised — phone rather than email.