If you call Riverside, California home, or if you live or own a commercial property in any of the surrounding cities, there may come a time when you want to do some renovations or construction projects on your property. If those projects involve excavation, disturbing a concrete slab, or opening up a CMU wall, it’s a good idea to know exactly what you’re getting into prior to starting construction. There could be buried pipes, power lines, gas lines, or even abandoned tanks in the area you will be digging. Within a structure, there could be reinforcing bars or cables that you don’t want to disturb, in addition to unseen utility lines.
You may have heard that you can call a free service to come examine your property prior to an excavation project. This is true. You can call 8-1-1 and someone will come out to your property and do a scan. But unfortunately, this free service is limited. They will only look for and locate public utility lines, and many properties have buried items in addition to public utility lines that the free scanning service won’t find for you.
To find the buried or embedded items that are not covered by the free utility locating service, you will need to call one of the GPR scanning services in Riverside out to your property. In case you aren’t familiar with GPR, it stands for ground penetrating radar. It is a sophisticated technology that involves sending electromagnetic pulses into the ground or into concrete to locate anomalies that could be hazards when disturbing the area. A trained technician using GPR technology can tell you where hazards are located, as well as how far beneath the surface they are. Without this information, you are taking a huge risk!
Hitting something like an irrigation line might not be that big of a deal (although it will delay your project for a bit when you have to make repairs), but hitting something like a gas line could have some disastrous consequence. It could cause an explosion that could injure or even kill anyone nearby, as well as start a fire. Severing the reinforcing bars or cables within a concrete slab could destabilize your entire structure.
Paying someone for GPR scanning services in Riverside is always money well spent. Even if they don’t find anything to be concerned about, you will gain peace of mind, knowing that you can proceed safely with your project.
For reliable and accurate GPR scanning services in Riverside, CA, contact Enhanced Scanning. They service all of Riverside County and use only highly trained technicians and top-quality equipment for every job. They find what other companies might miss by taking the time to thoroughly scan the project area.
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