Drilling and Sawing Blog
Practical guides to diamond drilling and concrete cutting: what jobs cost, how the different methods work, and how to plan drilling and cutting work so it runs smoothly on site. Written for the builders and M and E contractors who actually book the work.
Drilling methods explained
- Types of Diamond Drilling and When Each One Is Used
The overview: core, stitch, angled, overhead, wet and dry drilling, and which suits which job.
- Wet vs Dry Core Drilling: Which Method Suits the Job
Water suppression against extraction, and how the choice is made on site.
- Stitch Drilling Explained: Forming Openings with Overlapping Cores
How overlapping cores form openings where a saw cannot reach.
- Angled and Overhead Core Drilling
Drilling off the vertical and into soffits, and what changes in the setup.
- Choosing the Right Core Drill Diameter for Pipes, Flues and Ducts
Matching the bore to the service, from 52mm cables to 1000mm ventilation cores.
- Drilling Through Reinforced Concrete: Rebar, Scanning and Clean Cores
What rebar does to a core, and why scanning comes first.
More diamond drilling guides worth reading
- Diamond Drilling Cost Guide for Essex
The published national ranges and what moves the price on a real job.
- How We Work
How a job runs from enquiry and survey through to a tidy handover.
- Diamond Drilling in Essex
The method explained, from 10mm fixings to 1000mm ventilation cores.
- Concrete Cutting
Floor, wall and wire sawing for slabs, walls and heavy sections.
- Concrete Scanning
Finding rebar, cables and services before anything gets cut.
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