Middlesex County
Concrete Core Drilling in Cambridge
Coring in Cambridge is usually service penetrations for a lab or office fit-out, and the holes are rarely where the drawings first put them. Slabs in the older converted buildings are inconsistently reinforced, and post-tensioned floors in the newer ones make scanning before drilling mandatory rather than advisable. Where the position has tolerance, the hole moves to miss the steel. Where it does not, that is a conversation with the engineer, not a decision made at the drill.
What the job covers
- Holes through slabs, walls, foundations and footings, from small conduit up to large service penetrations
- Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, fibre and sprinkler penetrations
- Anchor and dowel holes for structural connections
- Test cores for laboratory analysis and thickness verification
- Angled and overhead coring
- Rebar scanning before drilling where hitting steel is not an option
- Water and slurry controlled and recovered on finished floors
What moves the price
- Diameter, depth and how many holes — setup dominates the cost on small quantities
- Reinforcement in the path, and whether the hole can be moved if steel is found
- Access and working position — overhead and confined-space coring is slower
- Whether water can be used, or whether dry coring with dust extraction is required
- Locating services before drilling, which on an occupied building is essential
- Hours available where the noise reaches occupied space
Working in Cambridge
Cambridge demolition is mostly interior, mostly occupied and mostly coordinated around research or institutional operations that cannot be interrupted. Lab and office fit-outs drive constant strip-out and floor removal work, and the older commercial and converted industrial buildings around Kendall and Central regularly need structural openings cut for new services. Work hours and loading access are usually set by the building, not the contractor.
Allied covers Cambridge and the rest of Middlesex County — all demolition services in Cambridge.
Common questions
Can you drill without hitting rebar?
The path can be scanned first and the hole positioned to miss the steel, which is the right approach wherever the location has any tolerance. Where it does not, a core bit will cut through reinforcement, but on a structural element that should be agreed with the engineer rather than decided at the drill.
Will it make a mess of the floor below?
Not if it is set up properly. Water is contained and vacuum-recovered at the drill, and a catch is set below for through-holes. That setup is standard on any occupied or finished building.
Other work in Cambridge
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