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Hilti PS-1000 concrete scanner mapping reinforcement across a slab surface

Concrete ScanningEchuca

Find out what is inside the slab before the blade does. Rebar, tendons, conduit and voids, mapped to 300mm deep.

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The cheapest part of the job, by a long way

A Hilti PS-1000 sends radar into the slab and maps what is in there. Reinforcing bar, post tension tendons, metal and plastic conduit, live cabling, water pipe and voids, down to 300mm. It gets marked on the surface so the cut or the core is set out around the things you cannot afford to hit.

The maths is not complicated. Scanning costs a fraction of a day rate. Cutting a post tension tendon means remediation and an engineer. Cutting a live cable means a shutdown, an electrician and an incident report. Cutting a charged water line in a finished building means everything underneath it gets wet.

It also finds what is missing. Voids under a slab, thin sections, and reinforcement that never went in where the drawings say it did. All of that changes how a job is priced and sequenced, and it is far better known before anybody has committed to it.

What turns up

Equipment
Hilti PS-1000
Depth
To 300mm
Finds
Rebar and tendons
Also finds
Conduit and voids
Output
Marked on the slab
Availability
24/7, 365

Scan before you commit

Any time the concrete is structural, occupied or full of services, and any time the drawings are older than the people using the building.

  • Post tension slabs

    Locating tendons before coring or cutting. Hitting one is the single most expensive mistake available on a concrete job.

  • Live services

    Finding conduit, cabling and pipework cast into slabs and walls before a barrel or a blade finds it the hard way.

  • Older buildings

    Heritage and river precinct buildings where the as built drawings are wrong, missing, or describe a building that was altered decades ago.

  • Structural slabs

    Mapping reinforcement so an opening is set out between the bars instead of through the middle of them.

  • Void detection

    Finding voids and honeycombing under a slab before a load goes on it or a core goes through it.

  • Thickness checks

    Confirming slab depth before a cut gets priced, so nobody discovers an extra hundred millimetres halfway through the day.

Row of completed core holes through a footpath, drilled clear of the services beneath

Concrete scanning in Echuca before anybody cuts

Scanning is the cheapest insurance available on a site. A PS-1000 pass costs a fraction of a day rate, and it is the only thing standing between a set out line and a post tension tendon, a live sub main or a charged water service.

Around Echuca and Moama a lot of it comes off older buildings. The port precinct, the pubs, the shops along the main street and the schools have all been altered several times over, and the drawings and the building parted company a long time ago. Nobody should be betting a structural slab on a plan drawn before the last three renovations.

The rest is commercial and civil work where the risk is simply too big to guess at. We will also scan for somebody else to cut, which is often a builder working out whether an opening is even feasible before it goes into a program. Either way you get the marks on the slab and a straight read of what is in there.

Often on the same job

Concrete Scanning across the region

Bendigo is the base, but the truck is on the road most days. Same gear, same crew, same hours, right across central Victoria and southern New South Wales.

What Echuca customers say

4.9 out of 5From 18 Google reviews
  • “Fast and efficient nothing is ever a dramma no matter the complexity of the job”
    Jack HealeyGoogle review
  • “Highly professional, efficient, and cost-effective service. The whole process is always handled smoothly and professionally from start to finish. Would highly recommend.”
    Connor MaymanGoogle review
  • “Reliable, honest with knowledge and experience, accompanied with the correct machinery for each of the projects and,”
    Paul GrechGoogle review
  • “Darren and his team were communicative, honest, and professional. Cannot ask for more than that. We were very appreciative of their work.”
    Terry DoddsGoogle review

Asked often

Is concrete scanning the same thing as concrete X-ray?

People use the words interchangeably and this is what they mean. True X-ray needs access to both sides of the slab and a radiation exclusion zone. Ground penetrating radar like the PS-1000 works from one side with nobody cleared off the floor.

How deep can you scan?

To 300mm, which covers the overwhelming majority of slabs, walls and footings we are asked to cut into.

What can it actually find?

Reinforcing bar, post tension tendons, metal and plastic conduit, live cabling, pipework and voids. It all gets marked on the surface so the set out can be adjusted before anyone cuts.

Do I need it on a house slab?

Not always. On a plain residential slab with no services in the area we will tell you it is not worth the money. On post tension, structural, commercial or occupied work it is not really optional.

Can you scan without doing the cutting?

Yes. Plenty of the scanning work is for somebody else to cut, or for a builder deciding whether a job is feasible at all. We will scan it, mark it up and leave you with what is in there.

What happens if the scan finds a problem?

You hear about it before the blade goes in rather than after. Usually the fix is shifting the set out a couple of hundred millimetres. Occasionally it means an engineer needs to look at the opening, which is far better found on day one.

Do not guess what is in there

Tell us the slab, the building and what you are planning to cut. Scanning it first costs a fraction of finding out the hard way.

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