Hot on it!

The team at D-Drill & Sawing proved they were ‘hot on it’ after responding to a concrete pour gone wrong in a London-based cold storage unit.

The company, which has branches across the UK - including the capital city - was urgently called in to help diamond floor saw over 500 metres of 150mm deep reinforced slab which had been poured into a storage unit that wasn’t to the required strength.

Within six hours of receiving the call, D-Drill manager Chris Broadley was on-site before the pour had fully dried to assess and come up with a plan to then cut the slab into 800mm square sections using an electric 3-phase floor saw with 600mm diamond blades.

This then enabled the client to lift the slabs sections up – each weighing a total of 240kg - using industrial suction lifting equipment, before all of the slurry was vacuumed up to prepare for the new pour within hours.

The job was completed quickly and professionally by operatives from D-Drill & Sawing, from the moment of receiving the call to the client’s deadline in having to re-lay the surface and install refrigeration units.

Chris said: “Needing to lift 500 metres’ worth of cut concrete slab whilst it was in situ to keep to the client’s programme meant that time was of the essence – because the earlier we got to it, the easier it was going to be to remove it.

“The team quickly agreed that the best course of action was to cut the slab into smaller pieces to enable for the efficient removal of the slab so that the disruption to the client’s programme was minimal.

“We are used to reacting quickly at D-Drill, so we were in our element with this job. It underlines our ability to deliver for clients when they need us most.”

 

 

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