Services Offered by a Concrete Cutter

Construction companies and house contractors are often required to cut and shape concrete for a variety of uses in their building projects. But concrete cutting is a specialisation within the industry that is performed by concrete cutting companies, and if you have never dealt with these professionals, you may need a quick primer on what services they can offer you.

Crushing

If your work site is littered with huge slabs of used concrete, a concrete cutter can crush that concrete in a hydraulic crushing machine to get rid of the mess for you. Concrete crushers can be as small as hand-held devices, and as large as full-scale tractors. They grind and pulverise concrete into fine powder, and on big jobs, the machines have large containers to transport the powdered concrete off-site.

Concrete crushing is essential to create space for your work site, and in many cases, a concrete cutter will take the crushed concrete to a recycling facility, so your waste can be reused in other construction projects.

Demolition 

When you are working on a site with existing concrete buildings that need to be demolished, a concrete cutter can utilise cranes, excavators and cutting machines to dismantle a structure and then crush the concrete into transportable sizes.

Concrete cutters use two main demolition methods: pressure bursting and hydraulic demolition. With pressure bursting, special chemicals are injected into the concrete, to expand the concrete to the point that it cracks and breaks apart. Pressure bursting is ideal if your jobsite is in close proximity to existing structures that would make hydraulic demolition difficult and dangerous to accomplish. Hydraulic demolition is achieved with machines and demolition equipment that tears the concrete apart, typically from the top down.

Diamond Core Drilling 

Concrete cutters like Kwik-Cut Concrete Drilling & Sawing can also offer you diamond core drilling services, in which a diamond-edged drilling device powered by a barrel cuts into concrete and carves out a circular hole that is often used to install pipes, wiring and air conditioning ductwork. Core drilling isn't just used for concrete, but is also applicable to brick, steel, asphalt, granite and marble.

Core drilling is always performed to the exact dimensions you require based on the type of work you are doing to do. And because core drilling bits are made from extremely small sizes to large ones, there's almost no hole size that can't be cut with these diamond-tipped cutting devices.