• Underground Service Location

We have the industry’s best available location EMF scanners on the market with multiple other pieces of equipment allowing us to accurately locate all cables regardless if live or not.  We are also able to locate all pipes regardless of if they are metallic or not, we achieve this by utilising traced rodders and/or sondes.  We photograph everything we do and include this in a report for our clients and this report can be altered to meet our clients requirements.

• Endoscopic/borescope cameras

We have various cameras for different environments with the smallest camera able to get through holes/gaps of 8mm moving upto our pipe inspection camera with 26mm camera that can go 60 metres underground whilst providing live footage to the operator.  Once we find the issue we are able to accurately pin point the location and depth saving our clients time and $$$ in excavation and repair works.

• Leak detection

We are unique in the industry in our approach to leak detection, with a lot of experience in locating underground services we utilise some of this equipment to support our leak detection equipment.  Using some of the latest specialised equipment we are able to not only locate the pipe but follow the line until we are upon the leak.  We also offer a “one stop shop” approach and working side by side with preferred partners we can locate and repair the leak in the same visit no matter what the repair requires with excavators, concrete saws and many other specialised equipment available when required.

Challenges

We are always up for a challenge and don’t give up, the best to date is when we got phone call to help find a 3 legged cat that had bolted into storm water drains 24hrs previously with an extended lead attached, after 4 hrs we found the cat approx. 6 m below road level and with the help of the fire brigade we managed to reunite the cat with its owners that night!

Precision Locator

We have chosen the RD8100^® cable locator and after lots of research we found it be engineered to deliver high precision for damage prevention when locating buried cables and pipes. This advanced range of underground utility locators offers optional integrated GPS and usage logging.

RD8100 is one of the most advanced high-precision cable locators available, and builds on over 40 years of pedigree to deliver performance, quality and durability. Containing a unique arrangement of 5 custom-manufactured, precision-ground antennas, it allows you to choose the best method to locate specific pipes and cables.

With utility infrastructures becoming more complex, locate professionals like K&J Scanning require more powerful, flexible tools. Features such as Current Direction and iLOC™ on the cable locator combine with the versatile Tx Transmitter range to deliver high-precision locates even in tough conditions.

Induction Clamps

We have difference sizes of induction clamps to improve the quality of signal we can put into the cables to give us a safe and straightforward way to apply the signal to pipe or cable to enable accurate tracing of this service.

Traced Rodders

Using non invasive detectable rods to locate and/or map underground conduit or pipe saves our clients $$$ in digging or trenching costs.  Attaching a standard pipe and cable locator transmitter to the rod adaptor allows the EMF locator to locate the services easily.  A copper wire inside the fibreglass inner core is energised with an electromagnetic signal that is detectable from above ground using our EMF signal receiver.

We have different sized traced rodders that allow us to trace all sizes of services underground.

Sonde

We utilise a sonde, which is a small battery operated transmitter which in typical use would be screwed to the end of a traced rod and pushed down the pipe so that we can accurately locate a pipe blockage with enormous cost and time saving potential for our clients.

Pipe inspection Camera

We have a specialised pipe inspection camera specifically setup to inspect, video and/or photograph pipes and can go upto 60m whilst giving the operator full control and visibility.

Traced Rodders

We utilise various sized traced rodders to go into pipes or conduits that cannot carry a signal on their own, this allows us to provide an accurate route and depth of the service.  We have various sizes and lengths and can go as far as 120m.

Electromagnetic location combines many advantages and facilities for obtaining information from underground that are not available from any other technique or combination of techniques.  We use the best equipment available on the market with vast experience and training we guarantee our results.

• We can search an area from the surface to accurately locate buried services.
• We can trace and identify a target line.
• We can trace and identify sewers or other non-metallic ducts or pipes to which there is access.
• We can locate blockages and collapses.
• We provide the depth of the services from the surface.

We always follow AS5488.1:2019 and carry a copy everywhere we go should we need to reference it.

Few Points regarding the different Quality levels that you should know:

Note – Most of what we are requested to do for clients falls into Quality level B or A which we mark on the ground and captured on photos and included in the report produced at the end of the job. FYI -  DBYD provides level D, which is not sufficient to commence any excavation works, a lot of people get caught out by this!

Quality level describes the amount and accuracy of information that is collected or held on a subsurface utility.  There are four quality levels: D, C, B & A.

Quality D – Lowest Level of the four levels.  Using existing records, cursory site inspection & anecdotal evidence.

Quality C – Is described as a surface feature correlation or an interpretation of the approx. location and attributes of a subsurface utility using combination of existing records, visible evidence etc.

Quality B – Provides relative subsurface feature in three dimensions by tracing or physical measurement that does not satisfy the spatial tolerance of Quality Level A.

Quality A – The highest Level, to make it simple the utility has to be located and sighted e.g generally by potholing.