GPR Concrete Scanning · Salt Lake City & Statewide
Locate rebar, post-tension cables, and conduit before you core, saw, or anchor. Saw Jockey scans concrete with ground-penetrating radar (GPR), marks what we find directly on the surface, and our crews can make the cut on the same job — one call, one company.
Concrete is never just concrete. Hidden inside nearly every slab and wall are rebar grids, post-tension cables, conduit runs, water lines, and sometimes voids or delamination. Cutting through an unmarked post-tension cable can be catastrophic — causing sudden structural failure, worker injury, and costly repair. Severing a conduit or water line means unplanned downtime and liability.
A GPR scan shows what's inside the slab and marks it on the surface, so you place cores and cuts with confidence instead of guesswork.
Send us where the cores, cuts, or anchors need to go, what kind of slab it is (slab-on-grade, elevated deck, or post-tensioned), and any access limits. Drawings or photos help.
We run ground-penetrating radar over each location and mark tendons, rebar, and conduit in paint directly on the concrete, with clear zones laid out for every core and cut.
Our crew, or yours, places cores and cuts in the marked clear zones. Booking the scan and the cutting together keeps it to one schedule and one point of contact.
GPR locates rebar, post-tension tendons, metal and plastic conduit, embedded piping, voids, and slab thickness. How clearly targets show up depends on the concrete's condition, depth, and how congested the reinforcement is.
Yes. Locating PT tendons before coring or cutting an elevated deck or post-tensioned slab is one of the most common reasons contractors call us. We mark tendon locations so your penetrations land in clear zones.
GPR scans from one side of the slab, uses no radiation, and doesn't require clearing the area, so findings are marked on site during the visit. X-ray produces a more detailed image but needs access to both sides and an evacuated work area. For most coring and saw cutting, GPR is the practical choice.
It depends on the concrete and the job. We carry scanners for everything from typical slabs and walls to thick foundations and heavy structural pours. Wet, newly poured, or heavily reinforced concrete reduces effective depth, so tell us the thickness when you call and we'll confirm the right approach.
Right away. Findings are marked directly on the concrete while we're on site, so cutting can start as soon as the scan is done.
Yes. We can quote the GPR scan together with the core drilling, wall sawing, or flat sawing, so the crew cutting the concrete works straight from our marks.
Tell us the slab type, area to scan, and your cutting scope — we'll bundle the scan and cut into one coordinated quote.