Data duct cores through a supermarket floor
Careful core drilling through a supermarket floor to reach the data cable ducts underneath.
A supermarket needed access to the data cable ducts running under its floor. The whole job is getting down to the ducts without going through them, which is a slow, careful way to spend a day and not a job to rush.
Tedious is the right word for it. The ducts are under the slab, so every hole is drilled towards the thing you are trying to protect. It is done hole by hole, not by leaning on the rig.
What it looked like
Photographed on the job at the time, on a phone, in the state the site was actually in.
A pair of cores through the floor, marked out before drilling. 
Set out in tape, then drilled to the line. 
Cores come out whole and sit next to the hole they came from. 
Cable through and ducts labelled.
What this job shows
- Careful drilling, hole by hole, to reach the ducts underneath.
- Slow on purpose. The fast version of this job is the one that puts a bit through a live duct.
Where this one fits
This job is core drilling work. The service page covers what the service involves and how to get it priced.
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