Utility Locating for Electricians and Plumbers

The calls we get from the trades are all versions of the same question: where does the existing line run? The feed from the meter or panel to a detached garage, shop or sub-panel before an upgrade. A private gas line before the fire pit, the grill or the generator goes in. The water service and the sewer lateral before a repair. The old lines before a new trench crosses them.

We trace with an electromagnetic locator, direct-connected when you can give us a safe point to clip on, induced when you cannot, and we sweep with ground-penetrating radar for anything that will not carry a signal where the job calls for it. Marks go down in APWA color code at the line's horizontal position, and anything we could not find or confirm goes in writing. You get a record you can hand to the homeowner.

What we do not do: open panels, disconnect anything, repair pipe, or pinpoint a partial fault. On a suspected fault we can trace the run, and if the conductor is fully broken we can mark where the signal stops, but finding the fault in a damaged line takes a fault locator, and that is your tool, not ours.

Recent work: electric services traced for homeowners in Monument, Parker and Colorado Springs; locates for an electrical contractor in Peyton; gas and electric marked ahead of a fiber install in Black Forest; a gas line locate; a sewer and water repair locate in Larkspur.

Send the address, what the homeowner is having done and where the meter or pedestal is, through the request form or by calling or texting (719) 800-4937, and we send a firm number.