Cutting A Groove In Concrete For Conduit

This is how to video on cutting a plumbing trench in concrete.

Cutting a groove in concrete for conduit.

Rosin paper stihl diamond saw exhaust fan if you have any questions. Locate the area of the concrete floor where you would like to cut the channel. I want to cut a 2 inch groove from the wall to the yard in order to run a pvc irrigation pipe from the faucet on the wall to the trees. I got tired of tripping over that 1 plastic pipe that was on top of the concrete so i cut a trench 1 1 2 inch wide by 2 ish inch deep almost 4 long.

Don safety glasses hearing protection and steel toed boots for protection. A drainage groove is an indentation in concrete that allows water to drain away from a foundation or into a drainage system when concrete is installed drainage grooves are often formed before the concrete dries. Made sure the geo thermal drain was sloped to the main drain. Set the diamond blade on the concrete wet saw to a depth of 4 1 2 inches and cut along both chalk lines.

Connect one end of a. Check to make sure there are no electrical or plumbing lines. This is noisy and can be time consuming depending on the amount of steel. How to cut a shallow channel into a concrete floor.

Tools used in this video. I first cut the trench outline then made a couple of parallel runs and cracked the cement kerfs left standing with a chisel.