For General Contractors

The Strike You Avoid Doesn't Show Up on the Schedule.

A utility strike stops the job, brings in the utility owner, and puts your crew in the middle of a claim. Locating is cheap in comparison, and it is the only part of that sequence you actually control.

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Crew running a locate across marked asphalt on a Texas construction site

Cheapest Line ItemCompared to what a strike costs in downtime alone

Pre-ExcavationBefore trench, bore, or grade

DocumentedPDF and KMZ deliverables

Same DayTypical mobilization

For General Contractors

The Strike You Avoid Doesn't Show Up on the Schedule.

A utility strike stops the job, brings in the utility owner, and puts your crew in the middle of a claim. Locating is cheap in comparison, and it is the only part of that sequence you actually control.

Send the Address & Scope Call 512-968-5660

Cheapest Line ItemCompared to what a strike costs in downtime alone

Pre-ExcavationBefore trench, bore, or grade

DocumentedPDF and KMZ deliverables

Same DayTypical mobilization

Where It Goes Wrong

811 closes the ticket. It does not clear your site.

The one-call ticket covers participating operators up to the meter or the property line. On a commercial site, most of what your excavator will actually hit sits past that boundary: private electric feeds between buildings, irrigation, site lighting, fuel lines, private sewer, and data.

The gap is not that contractors skip 811. It is that a closed 811 ticket reads like a cleared site, and on private property it is not one.

Private electric distribution between buildings
Site lighting and irrigation circuits
Private sanitary and storm sewer
Fuel and gas lines past the meter
Abandoned lines nobody recorded

A closed 811 ticket is not a cleared private site.

Roadway with locate markings beside an open excavation

When to Bring Us In

Three Points Where Locating Pays for Itself

Timing matters more than most crews expect. Late locating still helps, but early locating changes decisions.

Before the Bid

Knowing what is underground before you price the dirt work keeps unknowns out of your contingency and out of your change orders.

Before Mobilization

A marked and mapped site means your excavator starts on day one instead of standing by while somebody finds a print.

Before a Critical Crossing

Where a bore or trench crosses an existing line, a vacuum excavated test hole converts an estimated depth into a measured one.

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Risk Transfer

Documentation is what protects you afterward.

If something does go wrong, a dated map showing what was located and where is a materially better position than a memory of some paint.

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Common Questions

General Contractor Questions

We already call 811. Why pay for private locating?

811 covers participating utility operators up to the meter or the property boundary. On commercial and industrial property, most of the lines your crew can hit are past that point and are the owner's responsibility, not the utility's. A closed 811 ticket does not cover them.

When in the project should we schedule locating?

Before you price the dirt work if you can, and before mobilization at the latest. Locating after a crew is standing by still helps, but it costs you the standby time.

Do you provide anything we can put in a submittal?

PDF utility maps and KMZ exports are included. They are built to be handed to an owner, an engineer, or the next trade without us explaining them.

Can you work around an active site?

Yes, and most of our work is on active sites. Tell us about access constraints, traffic control, and badging requirements with the scope so scheduling is realistic.

What if you cannot find everything?

We flag areas where coverage was limited, whether that is congestion, depth, non-conductive pipe, saturated ground, or access. A locate that quietly omits its own gaps is more dangerous than no locate.

Do you cover our whole Texas footprint?

Our published service areas are Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, and we mobilize elsewhere in Texas for project work.

Bidding or mobilizing a site?

Send the address and the scope of the dirt work. We will tell you what it takes to clear it.

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Get in Touch

Ready to clear your site?

Send the address, the excavation footprint, and your schedule. We will confirm what we can cover and when we can be there.

512-968-5660

Austin, TX & statewide Texas coverage

Same-day / next-day mobilization

PDF maps & KMZ exports included

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