A truck-mounted water bore drilling rig set up on the driveway of a single-storey Perth home, mast raised, pale sand heaped beside the borehole — water bore drilling, Perth. Illustrative example.

Perth metropolitan area

Water Bore Drilling & Installation Perth

A Perth water bore is a hole, a liner and a pump, and your address decides the job. The WA Government's Perth groundwater map estimates the depth to the watertable for each property, and land within 200 m of the ocean or the Swan River Estuary is among the areas it lists as generally unsuitable.

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Sand on the coastal plain, rock in the Hills — different rigs, different jobs, and the quote says which.
The Perth groundwater map and the WA Government's own rules, read at source, so you know what your address allows before anyone visits.
Bore users are on the sprinkler roster too. We tell you the rules rather than selling around them.

What we arrange

Water Bore Drilling & Installation services in Perth

Before you book

Four things worth knowing before anyone drills

Two different Perths, two different jobs. The northern and southern coastal plain is sand — a sediment job, drilled and gravel-packed. Kalamunda and Roleystone are laterite and granite, where the rig is a pneumatic hammer and progress is measured against rock rather than sand. A quote that does not say which one your block is has not looked at your block.
Depth is a property of your address, not a price list. The WA Government's Perth groundwater map gives an estimated depth to the watertable and to the base of the Superficial aquifer for each property address, and describes that base as the maximum allowable bore depth for non-commercial use without the Department's approval. Depth is a property of your address, which is why it is worth checking the map before anyone quotes you.
A bore does not exempt you from the sprinkler roster. Garden bore users in Perth get two rostered days a week, set by the last digit of the house number, once a day before 9am or after 6pm — and no sprinklers at all from 1 June to 31 August. The fine is A$100. Anyone selling you a bore as a way around water restrictions is selling you something that is not true.
The pump is half the job and most of the callbacks. Drilling makes the hole; the submersible pump, the wire-up and the retic connection are what turn it into water on the lawn. Most of what goes wrong later is pump-side — lost prime, a failed capacitor, a motor that has burnt out — which is why repairs and pump work have their own page rather than a footnote.

How it runs

From enquiry to water on the lawn

Tell us the address and the job. Suburb, block size, and whether you want a new bore, a repair, or a retic connection. The suburb decides the ground.
A Perth bore contractor calls you. They ask what the map cannot tell them — access down the side, existing retic, where the bore head can sit.
You get a quote against your ground. Sand or rock, estimated depth, pump size, and what the price does and does not include.
Drill, install, connect. The contractor confirms the timetable once your address has been checked. When the bore is finished, ask for the bore log recording its depth, soil composition, yield and the pump make and model, and keep it with your house plans.

Water Bore Drilling & Installation across Perth

Perth is two drilling jobs wearing one city's name. From Joondalup and Wanneroo down through Canning Vale, the ground is pale free-draining sand over a shallow superficial aquifer, and a bore is a sediment job: drill, case, screen, gravel-pack, develop. East into Kalamunda and Roleystone the ground is lateritic clay and gravel over granite, the rig is a pneumatic hammer, and the water sits in fractures rather than in sand. The WA Government describes groundwater in and around the Perth foothills as patchy, with bore yields likely to be unproductive, which is why yield there is far less predictable than a coastal-plain quote would suggest. The Perth groundwater map gives the estimated depth to the watertable for a property address, so an address is a better guide to depth than an average is.

Where we work

Suburbs we cover

We cover the Perth metropolitan area from the Joondalup and Wanneroo corridor in the north, south of the river through Canning Vale and Armadale, east into the Kalamunda and Roleystone hills, and the older brick-and-tile suburbs around Ballajura and Malaga. Those four are genuinely different drilling propositions rather than four names on a map, and each has its own page.

Perth metropolitan area, coastal plain and Hills.

Areas served. Indicative positions — not a boundary, and not a location for this business.

Joondalup
Wanneroo
Canning Vale
Armadale
Kalamunda
Roleystone
Ballajura
Malaga

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Tell us the suburb and what you want done, and a Perth bore contractor covering your area will call you back. The WA rules for a garden bore, from the watering roster to where a bore suits, are in the Water bore drilling costs and rules check, each with its source and the date it was read.

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Last reviewed 25 Sep 2026 · Updated 25 Sep 2026 · First published 29 Aug 2026