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Originally Posted by ltcdfancher
That call is free insurance in my opinion. It only takes a few minutes. You’ll see flags and paint very soon; within 12 hours is my experience. The last utility to mark might be around the 72-hour mark.
I’ve seen landscaping projects start and finish and never saw a single mark on those properties. Those contractors are lucky, lazy, or prescient.
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OR.... They see where the boxes are, where the utilities enter the home, and have landscaped 100s or 1000s of homes, and knowing that the markings have a +/- of 4' for accuracy... carry a couple of L shaped copper wires and "witch" the wire locations when they have to be digging nearby. I have noticed in the new construction the last couple of years, they stopped running cable on top of the finish grade for the sod to barely cover it up an inch. Ridiculous when you couldn't even run a sod cutter over a cable, and not to code. The further north you go, the shallower they are.