Home base · Phoenix, Arizona
Concrete cutting in Phoenix.
Core drilling, wall sawing, slab sawing, and green cutting in Phoenix from the company that has been doing it here since 1961. Downtown, Midtown, the Biltmore, Arcadia, Ahwatukee, Deer Valley, Sky Harbor, Laveen, and every block in between.
Wall sawing · Downtown Phoenix
Wall sawing at Chase Field.
Our truck parked under the scoreboard at Chase Field, and inside, a wall saw on the track cutting an opening through a block wall with the room sheeted off in plastic. Ballpark work happens between homestands and mostly at night, in finished spaces that have to look untouched when the gates open. That is the kind of job we get called for downtown.
- Track-mounted wall saw for straight, square openings through block and poured concrete, indoors or out.
- Plastic, wet cutting, and slurry control, so the finished rooms around the cut stay clean.
- Nights and off days, timed to the building’s schedule, not ours.
Slab sawing · Downtown Phoenix
Slab sawing at the entry to the field.
The same ballpark, a different saw. This is the ramp where the trucks and equipment roll into Chase Field, and the slab needed cutting. Walk-behind saw on the line, a man on the slurry vac right behind it, cones out, truck backed up in the tunnel. Wet cut, cleaned up as we went, and the ramp was open again when we left.
Since 1961 · Phoenix
The year we opened, the President came to town.
On November 17, 1961, President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson stood in the Thunderbird Room of the Westward Ho and toasted Carl Hayden’s fifty years in Congress. Phoenix was a town of about 440,000 then, the Westward Ho had just given up its title as the tallest building in Arizona, and a new outfit called Concrete Coring Company was in its first year of business a few miles away. We have cut concrete at the Westward Ho more times than we can count since. Phoenix is 1.6 million people now, and we are still here, still cutting.
- 1961. Kennedy at the Westward Ho. Concrete Coring Company opens for business.
- 1990. The Deck Park tunnel carries I-10 under downtown. Phoenix started pouring concrete on a scale it never had.
- 1998. The ballpark opens with a roof that rolls back. We have run a wall saw inside it and a slab saw on the entry ramp since. See the jobs above.
- 2008. Light rail runs down Central. Every year since, more of the city is concrete, and more of it needs cutting.
Scanning & core drilling · Phoenix
Twenty cores through pan deck at U-Haul International.
Twenty 3-inch cores, six inches deep, through concrete on metal pan deck at U-Haul International, 24th Street and Thomas. We scanned it, we drilled it, and we brought the core catcher.
Pan deck means there is an occupied floor underneath. Every slug has to be caught on the way out, not dropped, so a core catcher goes under each hole before the bit goes through. And a composite deck is full of things you cannot see: rebar, conduit, the ribs of the deck itself. So the slab gets scanned and marked first, then drilled on the mark. One company doing both means nothing gets lost between the scan crew and the drill crew.
- GPR Scanning: rebar, conduit and post-tension cable found and marked before the bit goes in.
- Core Drilling: twenty 3″ cores, 6 inches deep, through concrete on pan deck.
- Core catcher under every hole, so nothing lands on the floor below.
Core drilling · Phoenix
Carpet up, twenty holes, carpet back.
Office floor work: the carpet tile comes up, the rig anchors to the slab, the water is caught at the hole, and the tile goes back down. The people upstairs and downstairs keep working the whole time.
Core drilling · Phoenix
Four test cores inside a working freezer.
Four 4-inch test cores, eight inches deep, in the freezer room at Azteca Bakeries on 43rd Avenue. Saturday work, because a bakery freezer does not get emptied on a Tuesday for anybody.
Test cores are how an engineer finds out what is actually under the floor before somebody designs to it — slab thickness, what the mix looks like, what is below. Coring one in a freezer adds the cold, the frost on the slab and water that wants to turn to ice while you work. Cut it wet, catch the water, pull the plugs, close the holes back up and get out before the room warms.
- Core Drilling: test cores sized and stepped to what the engineer asked for.
- Weekend and off-hours work so production lines and cold rooms keep running.
- Water controlled and the holes plugged back before we leave.
Phoenix is where we started and where most of our trucks still spend the day. High-rise decks downtown, hospital work in Midtown, tilt-ups in Deer Valley, the Sky Harbor cargo ramps, and the block walls and pool decks in every neighborhood from Arcadia to Laveen. If it is concrete and it is in Phoenix, there is a fair chance we have already cut something like it.
Same men, same equipment, same 24/7 number as every other job we do. Asphalt, block, and concrete, we cut it all, and we have been doing it in Arizona since 1961 under license ROC071382.
What we do in Phoenix
Most Phoenix jobs start as core drilling in Phoenix and grow from there, so we bring the whole list — wall sawing, slab sawing, green cutting, grinding, GPR scanning and demolition — off the same trucks, with one number to call.
- Core Drilling: Holes through anything, up to 64″ diameter. Whatever the special request, we have the resources to accommodate it.
- Wall Sawing: Door, window, HVAC and structural openings cut clean through concrete and block.
- Slab Sawing: Floors, roads, and lots. We regularly take the jobs other slab sawing companies can’t.
- Green Sawing: Control joints cut the day of the pour with Soff-Cut saws. Zero risk of losing the slab.
- Concrete Grinding: High spots, trip hazards, and rough edges ground smooth.
- GPR Scanning: Ground-penetrating radar finds the rebar, conduit, and cables before the blade does.
- Demolition: Cut it, break it, haul it. Selective concrete removal without the collateral damage.
Why Phoenix contractors call us
- Open 24/7. Nights, weekends, and the 5am start that keeps your schedule on track.
- No job is too big or too small. We have drilled up to 64″ diameter, and whatever the special request, we have the resources to accommodate it.
- Our men are trained to work safe and leave the job clean.
- Blades made special for us, because Valley river rock eats ordinary diamonds.
Why Valley concrete is different.
The aggregate in Phoenix concrete comes out of the Salt and Agua Fria river beds, and that river rock is some of the hardest in the country. A blade that cuts fine in Texas or California glazes over here and stops cutting. So we have our blades made to our own spec for this rock, and we have for decades. It is the reason a cut that takes another outfit all afternoon takes us the morning, and the reason the edge comes out clean instead of chewed.
Tell dispatch the address in Phoenix, what needs cutting, and when. You’ll get a straight answer and a truck.
Phoenix questions we get
Do you cut concrete in downtown Phoenix high-rises?
Yes. Most of the downtown and midtown towers have post-tension decks, so every hole gets GPR scanned and marked before the bit touches it. We cut wet, capture the slurry, and work the hours the building will give us.
Can you work nights and weekends in Phoenix?
Yes. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Occupied offices, retail, hospitals and restaurants almost always want the cutting done after close, and that is normal work for us.
Do you handle street and sidewalk saw cutting in Phoenix?
Yes. Slab sawing for utility trenches, sidewalk and curb removal, and road work. The permit and traffic control are normally the general contractor's to pull; tell dispatch what is already in place and we schedule around it.
How big a core can you drill?
Up to 64 inches in diameter. Whatever the special request, we have the resources to accommodate it.
How fast can you get to a job in Phoenix?
Our shop is in Peoria and our trucks are across the Valley every day. Call 602-268-1439 with the address and the cut and dispatch gives you a straight answer and a time.
Asphalt, block, and concrete. We cut it all.
For your job, we will go anywhere. One number, answered 24/7, and a crew that has been cutting Arizona since 1961.
Call 602-268-1439