How we locate plastic water pipes

In this video, Ben Minutoli, manager of Geelong Cable Locations, use an acoustic locator, to locate the position of a poly water pipe from the water meter, that is in the garden at the front of the property, through to the house.

Using is cable and pipe locator, he had first already located, the underground power cable, telephone cable, and gas pipe, that were all going from the street to the house. But when he then tried to find the water pipe he found he could not induce a signal onto the utility, which means the pipe must have been plastic and would not be locatable.

Next, he tried the ground-penetrating radar. We can generally get good results when looking for water pipes with the radar, but unfortunately today, on this site, the radar was not able to see this service.

So he then got out the acoustic locator and also decided to set up the camera, as back then when we did this job, we didn't have any footage of the acoustic locator in use, so thought this might be a good site to capture it on.
Plus, its also a good example, to show that, although we may sometimes have trouble finding some underground services, there is always more than one way to locate any particular underground utility.
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www.geelongcablelocations.com.au
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Geelong Cable Locations are the experts to call when you need to know where underground cables and pipes are buried.

We service Geelong, Melbourne and Country Victoria.

We offer:
- Electromagnetic Field Locating (also known as digital locating, or just cable locating)
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Non-Destructive Digging (also known as hydro excavation, or vacuum excavation, or even just known as NDD)
- Concrete scanning
- Acoustic locating (perfect for locating poly water pipes)
- Drafting
- GPS plotting
- Project management

We’ve been in business since 1998, making us one of the oldest and most experienced service locating companies in Victoria.

Our manager Ben Minutoli was the first in Victoria to obtain his Dial Before You Dig certification and, to date, we’re still the only company in Victoria to have multiple technicians within the company who are DBYD certified (if you don't know, that’s the highest level of certification for a locator in Australia).

Actually, if you don't know about the Dial Before You Dig certification you can find out more about it here at a blog post Ben wrote when it first came out: https://geelongcablelocations.com.au/dial-before-you-dig-certified-locator/

And you can also read more about it on another blog post he wrote 12 months after it was started, as well as some tips on how to know which locator to pick to come out to your site: https://geelongcablelocations.com.au/dbyd-certification-is-the-underground-utility-locator-you-use-accredited/

If you have a question about either of those blog posts or, better still, if we can be of any assistance to you with any of your locating needs—or even if you’d just like to discuss a project you’re working on—then feel free to call us toll-free on 1800 449 543.
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