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Core
drilling.

Single or multi-cores for piling probes, dowel bars, sample extraction and MEP penetrations. Diamond-tipped, water-managed, vibration-controlled. Up to 60 cores per crew per day, depths to 3m.

Cores / day
Up to 60
Depth
Up to 3.0m
Orientation
V · H · overhead
Three drilled holes in a concrete slab with extracted cores stood alongside
Up to 3m depth
Representative work · photography on site
Use cases

Where core drilling fits.

12 – 200mm Ø
MEP penetrations

HVAC, electrical, plumbing, comms — clean cores through walls and slabs.

100mm typical
Sample extraction

Concrete cores for compressive testing or aggregate analysis.

75 – 150mm Ø
Piling probes

Investigation cores through pile caps and ground beams.

25 – 50mm Ø
Dowel bars

Anchor and starter bar holes for structural connections.

Process

From brief to clean core.

01
Brief in

Drawing or photo. Position, diameter, depth.

02
Scan

GPR or ferrodetector — rebar, services, post-tension.

03
RAMS

Permit-ready RAMS, isolation, COSHH.

04
Drill

Wet- or dry-cut. Cores logged and labelled.

05
Sign-off

Photo log, dimensional cert, slurry removed.

Same-day quotes when possible
Need cores tomorrow? Send the drawing.