Compliant first. Then quality. Then speed.
Concrete cutting, core drilling and line pumping across South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and the Mackenzie District, for local contractors and the ones who arrive from out of town. The paperwork is in your hand before we come through the gate.
- Silica managed
- Inductions done before we start
- Dust extracted at the blade
- Electric saws indoors
Send us the job
Site, depth, and when you need it. If it is urgent, the phone is faster.
On a commercial site, compliance comes first
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Compliance
Dust extracted at the blade, annual health monitoring, and the paperwork in your hand before we start.
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Quality
Cut straight. From small jobs to major dairy processing developments, the same standard.
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Speed
Speed is key. We do not waste time on site.
What we bring to site
Ask for any of it and it comes to you before the work starts.
- A site specific safety plan for your job.
- Annual health monitoring, lung, eye and hearing, with the records on request.
- Inductions done before the day rather than on it.
- A health and safety manager behind the paperwork.
Numbers you can check against your own programme
- 340 mm
- Total depth, floor and slab sawing
- 300 mm
- Walls cut to this depth
- 300 mm
- Largest core diameter we drill
- Up to 50 m
- Of line on the pump, for tight access
Four kinds of call, one number
Different problems, same answer: tell us what you have hit, where you are and how deep.
Local builders and concreters
One, two and three man bands who cut their own work when things are quiet and hand it out when they are flat. You have a pour on Thursday and you want the cuts in on Thursday.
Civil and commercial contractors
Earthworks, drainage and building contractors who need depth and a straight line. The first question is usually how deep.
Out of town project managers
In Timaru for a big build? We cut and core across South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and the Mackenzie District.
Plumbers, drainlayers and electricians
Chase cutting, breaking out, core drilling and the slurry vac as one package, safe and clean inside a building.
South Canterbury's big builds, from underneath
We have cut and drilled on some of South Canterbury's largest builds.
- A major dairy processing development
- Twizel's new school
- A bulk store
Recent work includes a slot drain network extended through a live factory floor and a run of data duct cores through a supermarket floor. The rest is on the projects page.
Eight services, done properly
Concrete cutting, core drilling and line pumping across South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and the Mackenzie District.
Soft cutting
Control joints cut the day the slab goes down, before it cracks. House pads, driveways, sheds and commercial floors.
What we do
Floor and slab sawing
Expansion cuts, rebates and deep cuts in hardened slabs and hardstands, to 340 mm total depth. Indoors with dust extraction.
What we do
Chases and channels
A narrow slice cut and the concrete removed, to form a trench for services. Floors and walls, drains, ducts, conduit and cable.
What we do
Road sawing
Planned asphalt service cutting for trenches, service runs and potholes, set out from plans or marked on site.
What we do
Wall sawing
Doorways, windows and penetrations cut clean out of standing walls. Concrete, block and heritage stone.
What we do
Core drilling
Holes from 20 to 300 mm through reinforced walls, floors, brick and block. Extension bits when it has to go deeper.
What we do
Concrete scanning
Find the steel, the conduit and the cabling before the blade does. Scanned, marked, then cut.
What we do
Concrete pumping
For pours a truck cannot get to, or cannot get to in time. Tight access, and small pours welcome.
What we doWhat project managers ask first
Can you work through our prequalification system?
Yes. We work through whichever prequalification or approved subcontractor system your business runs, and we can send our health and safety documents through before we come to site. Tell us which system it is and what you need in it, and the paperwork is done before the day.
How do you manage silica dust?
Dust is extracted at the blade into a vac when we are cutting dry, and slurry is vacuumed and taken off site when we are cutting wet. Annual health monitoring covers lungs, eyes and hearing. There is more detail on our health and safety page.
Do you work after hours and at night?
Yes. Tell us the window and we will work to it.
Do you travel outside Timaru?
Yes. Timaru is the base and we work across South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, North Otago and the Mackenzie. Twizel is about two and a half hours away.
Is there a minimum job?
There is a minimum charge per job and we will tell you what it is on the phone. We still take the small jobs, because in our experience the big ones follow them.
Got a programme date and a slab in the way?
Ring the number. Tell us the site, the depth and the date, and we will confirm it.