If you're a homeowner and you need to get some underground cable locating done at your house
stick around because today I'm making a video for you
Hi guys
Ben here, Geelong Cable Locations
today we're at a property
and the owner is ripping up the front garden
he's going to replace all the grass
and put new rolled turf down
He's digging down about 150 - 200mm
and he just wants us to tell him
where all the services are
coming in from the street to the front
So it's a pretty common job we get
One of the common jobs we get is
homeowners that want to replace the front fence
working in the garden, putting in a retaining wall
and a question a lot of time they ask is
how long does it take to locate all the services coming in
which is a genuine question
If you're a homeowner
if you don't work in the construction industry
if you don't use cable locators
you don't know how long it takes to locate everything coming in
so I thought, let's setup the camera
Once we get started, I'm going to put it in the corner
so you can see everything we're doing on a angle
so I thought setup the camera and let you see everything
From start to finish
I haven't done one bit yet
I haven't even looked at the Dial Before You Dig plans yet
I'm going to the whole lot on video
so you can see everything
so hopefully I don't stuff up
Hopefully I don't do anything wrong
But yeah, stick around, I think you'll enjoy this video
Okay
And that is it
We are all finished out on site
As you saw it didn't take that long
We found the water
actually, here we go
The water in the street was PVC
so we couldn't find that
The water from the main to the meter
was copper
From the meter to the house was poly
so we couldn't find the meter to the house
with the general locator
Cable locator I should say
but we did find it with the ground penetrating radar
You would of seen that little pram I pushed around
That's ground penetrating radar
So we've found the water from the meter
to the house with that
We've found the gas from the meter
to the main out in the street
We couldn't find the gas main itself
but we've marked it on the ground where it is on the plan
That is all. We haven't marked the actual main itself
and we've also found the power
from the power meter
going out along the fence
down to the power pit
but we also found the power from the pit
actually going across the road and then
from across the road it goes along the other side of the road
which I didn't expect for where we are
I actually expected the power main to be on the same side of the road
because the lights were on the side of the road
but anyway, that was something that we found that we didn't expect
Found the stormwater
going from the down-pipe around to the back of the house
The main stormwater is at the back of the house as well
Found a sewer
You didn't see it because I was at the back of the property
Found a sewer from the house going out to the back
and we found a Telstra
The Telstra runs along the street
and also goes from the pit
in to the house
It goes on a bit of an angle
Did you see on the corner there's a fence post
They would of hit the Telstra for sure
or they've crushed it or they've gone right on it
It's crazy how close it is
I don't know when they put the fence up
I know the owner said he didn't put the fence up
but when they put the fence up, it's bloody close
Anyway, we see this sort of stuff all the time
Anyway
So that is it
As you see it didn't take that long
All done
This is a standard property for us
Pretty much a standard locate what we generally do
Go out on site and tell the owner where everything is
Now the next step from here
is that I've said to the owner
we can dig down and expose each of these by hand
so I've marked it on the ground
you still need to dig down and prove where it is by hand and see it
I've said to him we can do it
and we can bring the truck in and do it
or he can do it
He said he'll do it which is fine
That's easy to do
He said he's going to do it on a Saturday morning
and the next thing is to put it all on a plan
I said we can put it all on a plan
He said no he doesn't need the plan
He's doing the works pretty soon so he's happy with that
so as you saw I just did a report to show what we did on site
Pretty simple
All done as I said
This is pretty much what we do everyday
If this is what you need done at your place
Feel free to give me a call
We're happy to help anyway we can
We cover Melbourne, Geelong and all of country Victoria
so yeah I don't mind driving to Ballarat to do a standard house
Same as driving to Brighton to do a property or house
We go everywhere
In the meantime, if you need me at all
Don't hesitate to give me a call
but for now I do hope you're well
Take care and bye for now