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How easy is it to locate services (water, gas, electricity, etc.) under concrete?
Long version:
I'm looking at my fibre install options. Apparently the duct the existing cooper cable is laid in has collapsed and is not useable.
I have a textured pebblecrete driveway leading up to the house that is quite steep but has a flat parking space at the top, next to the garage. For a while now I've been thinking of cutting (or having a professional cut for me) a narrow strip out of the driveway at the top of the slope to create a trench about five metres long to drop in some drainage (something like this) to stop water running down the steep driveway. Coincidentally, this cut would run almost exactly to where the existing ETP is, so I thought I could do the fibre install by running a ruggedised cable run along a wooden retaining wall on one side of the driveway, and it could then be run in the trench, under the drain, to the ETP, where it would enter the garage for routing through the house. Seems doable, and would mean not having to drill any new holes in the side of my house.
But about 30cm from the ETP is the stopcock for the water connection to the house. Almost directly above the ETP is the electricity meter. And about three metres away, but on the same wall, is the gas meter. So somewhere under this driveway, all in close proximity, are all the service connections to the house. I don't know where they run up or across the drive, or how deep they are. I don't want someone cutting my drainage trench and slicing through the electrical cable or gas main.
So would professional concrete cutters have equipment capable of detecting the location and depth of these service connections?
