Construction Blasting

Innovative Drilling is compelled to do the near impossible. The company has completed many technically demanding projects including extracting solid concrete from a concrete mixer and removing a boulder from underneath a church. Innovative Drilling’s two key blasters have 60 years of challenging blasting experience between them.

Their experience includes this sewer trench delayed to fire sequentially fifty feet from a new apartment building in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

They’ve also performed sinking cuts, such as this one in East Pestpeswick, Nova Scotia. The center part of the blast was fired first, creating a void for the outer holes to be sequenced into, leaving a cone shaped muck pile.

Case Study – Innovative Drilling successfully blasted a hollow underneath a Halifax home in 2004 to allow for the addition of a basement. While the home was jacked up five feet from the ground, Innovative Drilling blasted underneath. Four and five feet cuts of granite were surgically removed with small charges.

The house was jacked up and then prepared for blasting underneath. Williams Lake Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mats were winched into place using an air tugger. Williams Lake Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“When the general contractor said that we had to blast, I was terrified. My house was only five feet off the ground; there wasn’t room for an explosion. I would never have believed it was possible to do what Innovative Drilling did. It’s amazing how precise they were.”
- Homeowner Marc Bilodeau.