A local company shaping South Canterbury's infrastructure
We cut, core, scan and pump concrete for the builders, civil contractors and homeowners of South Canterbury. Electric saws, dust pulled at the blade, and someone on site when the job actually needs one.
- SiteWise Green
- Silica managed
- Electric saws, no fumes indoors
- 5am or 5pm
Tell us about the job
Name, number, where you are and what you have hit. That is enough to give you an answer.
Your crew is standing around and the saw's broken. Call. We turn up.
That is where most of our work comes from. Someone digs into concrete they were not expecting, six people stop, and the cost of waiting is a great deal more than the cost of the cut. Tell us where you are and what you have hit.
Compliance, quality, speed. In that order on a commercial site.
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Compliance
Dust extracted at the blade, health monitoring on the operator, and the paperwork in your hand before we start.
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Quality
Cut straight, cut once. If it is not right we come back and fix it, which is cheaper for everyone than arguing about it.
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Speed
The call usually comes when a crew is standing still. We answer it, and we turn up when we said we would.
Dust extraction, health monitoring and a silica plan, because a cut that puts crystalline silica through someone's lungs is not a cheap cut. How we manage it
Numbers you can check against your own job
- 340 mm
- Road saw depth in a single pass
- 350 mm
- Largest core diameter we drill
- 100 m
- Line pump reach from the truck
- 20 mm
- Narrowest decorative cut we set out
Six things, done properly
Cutting, drilling, scanning and pumping. If you cannot go under it, over it or around it, ring us to go through it.
Floor and slab sawing
Expansion cuts, early entry soft cutting and full depth slab cuts. Indoors with extraction, outdoors in one visit.
What we do Road sawing
Trenches, service runs and pothole removal in road and yard slabs. Cuts to 340 mm in one pass.
What we do
Wall sawing
Doorways, windows and penetrations cut clean out of standing walls. Concrete, block and heritage stone.
What we do
Core drilling
Holes from 20 to 350 mm through reinforced walls, floors, brick and block. Extension bits when it has to go deeper.
What we do
Concrete scanning
Find the steel, the conduit and the heating before the blade does. Scanned, marked, then cut.
What we do
Concrete pumping
A line pump reaches where a truck pump cannot. Back gardens, tight sites and small pours.
What we doSouth Canterbury's big builds, from underneath
Most of the large projects in this region have needed something cut, cored or drained at some point, and a good share of that has been us. We cannot name all of them here, so here is what they were.
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A $60M dairy processing development
Cutting and drilling for the principal contractor and three other subcontractors on the same site.
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A $60M food factory in Geraldine
Slab and drainage work on one of the largest private builds in the district.
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A new school in Twizel
Ten weeks of sawing two and a half hours from the yard, through an existing client.
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Timaru's second largest construction site
Onboarded with the main contractor and cutting from this month.
A decent portion of our work is remedial, confidential or simply unsuitable for advertising. The jobs we can show you are on the projects page.
Jobs we can show you
Photographed on site, posted at the time, and named because the client was happy to be.
Slot drain network extension on a live factory floor
Cutting, breaking out and rebuilding a slot drain network while the factory kept running, tying into live drains under a fixed handover date.
Attic window cut through 400 mm heritage stone
A new attic window and lintel slot cut through 400 mm of heritage stone, with the interior protected from water and debris throughout.
20 mm decorative cuts in a patio area
A plain outdoor pad turned into a tiled look, cut 20 mm wide to take a darker grout, set out and cut in one visit.
One phone number, and it is the owner's
If you can't go under it, over it or around it, ring us to go through it.
Direct Concrete is Matt Reweti and a truck full of electric high frequency saws. He started with one second hand saw and a job nobody else wanted to do, and the business has worked its way through a good share of South Canterbury's large builds since.
The rule has not changed since that first saw: do the small jobs and the big ones come. So we answer the phone, we say plainly whether we can be there, and we turn up when we said we would. It is not complicated. It is just rarer than it should be.
Matt RewetiOwner, Direct Concrete
Timaru out to the Mackenzie
Timaru is the base. Everything below is a normal week, not a special trip.
- Timaru Our base
- Temuka 15 min from Timaru
- Geraldine 35 min from Timaru
- Ashburton 75 min from Timaru
- Twizel 150 min from Timaru
We also work across Canterbury, North Otago and the Mackenzie. If the job is worth the drive, we will drive it.
What project managers ask us first
Are you SiteWise prequalified?
Yes. Direct Concrete holds a SiteWise Green rating, achieved in October 2024. Ask and we will send the prequalification pack and our health and safety documents through before we come to site.
How deep can you cut?
The road saw takes 340 mm in a single pass. Wall sawing reaches 220 mm from one side and 440 mm cutting from both. Core holes run 20 to 350 mm in diameter and typically to 400 mm deep, further with extension bits.
How fast can you be on site?
It depends what is already booked, and we will tell you straight away rather than string you along. Most of our calls come from a crew that has stopped, so we work around that: 5am or 5pm, whichever end of the day the job needs.
Do you travel outside Timaru?
Yes. Timaru is the base and we work across South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, North Otago and the Mackenzie. Temuka is 15 minutes, Geraldine 35, Ashburton 75, Twizel about two and a half hours.
Standing around waiting on a cut?
Ring the number. Matt answers it, and if he is under a saw he will text you back. Tell us what you have hit and where you are, and we will tell you when we can be there.