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Ghost Drilling is Southeast Michigan's underground boring contractor for retail, small commercial, and residential properties. Power lines, gas lines, internet — we bore the path under your driveway, parking lot, or property line without trenching a thing.
Serving retail, small commercial & residential across SE Michigan — internet, gas, power, water. 150ft+ runs. Flat-rate quotes.
What is horizontal directional drilling?
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) — also called underground boring or directional boring — creates a precision bore path beneath the surface. No trenching, no excavation, no restoration headaches after the fact.
Common projects
Our 150-foot minimum exists for a reason — HDD shines on longer runs, complex crossings, and jobs where trenching would destroy something valuable. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Panel-to-outbuilding, EV charger conduit to a detached garage, or exterior power runs of 150–500+ feet. HDD gets you there without tearing up the driveway or lawn between here and there.
Getting power, data, or plumbing to a detached structure across a large property. The longer the run, the bigger the advantage of boring over trenching.
Private fiber runs between buildings, or getting the ISP's drop from road to structure when the property isn't friendly to trenching — mature trees, landscaping, concrete.
Supply line crossings and zone infrastructure for large residential or estate irrigation systems. We bore under hardscaping, roads, and established landscaping without disturbing it.
Multiple runs on a single property? One mobilization, multiple bores — staged and sequenced efficiently. More footage = better economics. Describe everything you need in the quote form.
Large acreage, shared driveways, private roads — the scope that demands real horizontal directional drilling equipment, not a landscaper's compact bore unit.
The process
No project managers, no weeks of back-and-forth. Submit your project, get a flat quote, schedule the crew.
Describe your run — footage, what you're crossing, what's going through it. The more detail, the faster we price it.
We price directional drilling jobs by scope, not by the hour. You know the number before anyone shows up.
We call in the Michigan utility locate (MISS DIG) and handle scheduling. Locates typically take 2–3 business days.
Crew arrives, bores the run, pulls conduit, and leaves the site clean. Hand off to your electrician, plumber, or ISP from there.
Service area
We serve every major county in SE Michigan. Dedicated pages for each area with local project details — click your county or city below.
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Common questions
Horizontal directional drilling equipment is purpose-built for distance and precision. For short crossings — a 30-foot driveway, a single sidewalk — the mobilization overhead doesn't make sense economically. A landscaper with a compact bore machine is the right tool for that. Our HDD rigs are built for 150-foot-plus runs, multi-crossing jobs, and projects where soil conditions or property value make trenching a bad option.
Trenching digs an open channel from A to B — everything above the trench line gets disturbed, cut, and needs to be restored afterward. Directional boring goes underground without touching the surface between the two access points. If you have a finished driveway, mature landscaping, concrete, or any surface you'd rather not destroy, HDD is the right call.
We price by the job — flat rate based on footage, depth, bore diameter, soil conditions, and number of crossings. Typical residential HDD runs in Southeast Michigan start around $1,500 for a 150-foot bore and scale from there. Submit your project details and we'll give you a real number, not an hourly estimate with unknowns baked in.
Yes. We call in the MISS DIG request before any HDD equipment touches the ground — required under Michigan law, and something we take seriously on every job. Utility locates typically come back in 2–3 business days. Factor that into your planning if you're working against a hard deadline.
No — that's the point. We need two small access points at the entry and exit of the bore path, typically 12–18 inches wide. Both get backfilled and compacted when we're done. Nothing between them is disturbed. No restoration work, no resodding, no broken concrete to repair.
Yes, and it's often the most cost-effective approach — one mobilization, multiple bores staged back-to-back. List all the crossings you need in the quote form and we'll price the full scope together.
All of SE Michigan: Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe, St. Clair, and Lenawee counties — including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Troy, Sterling Heights, Brighton, Monroe, Port Huron, and everywhere in between. If you're in the region with a project of real scope, we can almost certainly make it work.