H & L Drilling Inc

Well, drilled and hooked up quicker than expected, to anticipated depth, bill came in less than estimate. Now, three years later my well quit due to an electrical problem from the previous well's wiring. I got ahold of Dustin and he helped me troubleshoot the problem over the phone. Turned out to be a control box that was installed on the old well (not H & L's well), but still in use since it was fairly modern components. Dustin told me what component to replace and viola, all is well. An inexpensive and quick fix. Thank you Dustin.

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Great. They were professional, personable , respected our property and asked very direct questions about our property and needs. We could certainly tell they have dug many wells. Very knowledgable and made suggestions so we could make an informed decisions. Communication was seamless between ourselves, contractors and neighbors. We have great water and they even hit it a little sooner than the "neighborhood bets" predicted ultimately saving time and money. Thanks for the great experience!

After the dirt work had been completed the neighbor notified Shawn that his site was only 40' from his drain field and therefore unusable. I told Shawn that I did not consider it unreasonable for him to pickup half the cost of the dirt work. He refused saying it was my fault. My mistake was trusting this driller implicitly.

Our well at a rental property had stopped working. H&L Drilling has done a lot of work for us in the past so I called them. They arrived the same day, and diagnosed and fixed the problem without any further issues.

They were great. They responded to my call quickly and were very nice. We've had them out before for other issues with our other.

Anytime I had any problems I would call them. I would recommend them to anybody.

They have been satisfactory every time they’ve come out. They are very responsive.

Bad news - Well went dry no water Good news - H & L gave a profession bid, which made selection of a driller easy, then they even executed the work as propsosed and result was within the week we had a new well and water

THey did a great job. Obviously, with the Bakken play happening right now, steel pipe isn't exactly cheap, and we could have drilled an "adequate" well for (shallower) a bit cheaper but we wanted to never have to go through this again. They were in touch often during the drilling process to tell us what they were finding. We ended up with a great well -40 gallons per minute, probably one of the best in our area of the Helena Valley. Obviously, when drilling that deep you need a larger and more expensive pump, and a whole lot of pipe, but the guys who drilled the well found the water amount increasing as they approached the depth limit we'd previously set with them, and by going a bit less than 50 feet below our pre-set limit, our water output doubled. They are always in demand, so we had to wait a while for them to show up, drill the well, and install the pump (the whole process took almost a month). For that, I'm giving them a B, but looking back, it seems like it was a short time. I suppose if someone is intending to maintain golf course lawn they might get frazzled having to wait that long, but we aren't the kind to lose sleep over our lawn as long as it's there for the kids to run on (I find it baffling why people try to maintain ultra green thick lawns in an area such as Helena that is essentially a desert. But I digress...) The crews worked out there in blazing heat, in rain, even with some lightning in the area. They never gave up. THey showed up early and were very considerate and polite. They even put up with some rookie questions on my part. The drill crew was especially good to work with - - very very hardworking guys. The only thing that I found interesting was that we weren't really consulted on the size of the pump that we should get. I assume that is only because when you are drilling down to a certain depth, you need to go with a certain size of pump. Anyways, they seem to have figured out the exact pump we needed because we haven't had problems in the three months since the well was completed. They were a bit less than punctual us our well log paperwork so that we could file for our water rights - it seemed like it took over a month, but seeing as how they had a drilling rig tip over shortly after drilling our well and they were at the peak of the drilling season, I guess I should cut them some slack. All in all, I was delighted with the work that H&L did for us, and would recommend them to anyone without reservation. I'm glad we went with them.

Initially they were a little stand-offish when first called (perhaps because this was for a rental property), but once on site they were very professional and resolved the issue quickly. In the end we were very pleased with their work.