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Three Unique Benefits of Hydro Excavation

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Digging precise holes into the ground is an important step in completing a number of jobs including installation of plumbing pipes, posts, and other materials. While there are several different ways that you can go about digging and creating these holes, one great option to consider is hydro excavation as it provides a range of unique benefits.

Three Unique Benefits of Hydro Excavation

Precise Holes

One of the benefits of hydro excavation is that it allows a user to create more precise holes than other methods. When using professional digging machinery, it is nearly impossible to dig a precise hole on the first attempt. This then requires someone to back fill the holes. When using hydro excavation, it is much easier to create the perfect hole on the first attempt.

Safer Process

The process of hydro excavation is also much safer and cleaner than other digging options. While digging a hole with machines and shovels requires a lot of labor and is more dangerous, hydro excavation is much safer and has much less risk of injury. Furthermore, hydro excavation does not require that you use heavy machines that have a tendency to leak fuel and create an environmental risk. All of the water used in the hydro excavation is natural and clean.

More Affordable

While hydro excavation provides a safer and more precise product, it also is more affordable. Since hydro excavation is a more precise process and does not require as much time to back fill the holes, you will save a lot of money on labor costs.

If you are interested in hydro excavation, contact us to learn more.

Use Vacuum Excavating to Build Up Your Utility Line Records

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Texas is in the middle of a statewide expansion, especially if you live near a major city or Metroplex. More and more companies are moving to take advantage of wide expanses of land and lower taxes, which means the smaller towns ringing those cities are expanding just as much. If you’re part of a team developing land that is near preexisting utilities, then it can be difficult to get started on figuring out where the previous expansion stopped.

Use Vacuum Excavating to Build Up Your Utility Line Records

How to Fill the Gaps in Your Utility Line Mapping

Not all maps and records are complete, especially if they’re not all online. But vacuum excavation can be used to both uncover known utility line sites and to find unknown sites so you can update your records for future builds, repairs, and excavations. So look for excavation services that offer both potholing and trenching:

  • Potholing uses portable vacuum excavators to displace soil around a specific point, and they have low-pressure settings that remove any dirt, water, or debris without damaging the underlying utility lines. Not only does this mean you can quickly continue your project with a safely exposed line, you don’t have to worry about the potential damages and delays caused by backhoes or shovels.
  • Trenching involves using low-pressurized air or water to create vertical or horizontal trenches in the dirt to locate utility lines. Because previous maps may be inaccurate or even missing, this technique can help your team quickly locate the lines and continue construction or repairs.

Locating and building off existing utility lines is an essential part of building up cities, but it’s not always easy. Go to 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating to find experts who can quickly and safely excavate utilities for you.

Hydro Excavation For Safer, More Efficient Digging

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Hydro Excavation For Safer, More Efficient DiggingSubsurface utilities and underground facilities are frequently needed for building construction. Excavation is often needed in order to lay these utilities. This can be a  difficult  job that has many risks, both to the property and for the laborers involved. Hydro or water excavation has substantially lessened these risks.

The process combines air vacuum with high pressure water disbursement to cut through materials and break them up.  Once they are converted into smaller pieces, the vacuum removes the slurry from the excavation site and the debris is transferred to a dedicated tank.

In any excavation process, the safety of the people involved in the process should come first.  Hydro Excavation is currently one of the best methods of digging due to its efficiency and its ability to achieve accurate results.  The main benefit of using this excavation method, however,  is the increase in damage and safety control in comparison with the old fashioned mechanical methods of digging.  Because of its increase in accuracy, accidents and injuries for laborers and others are limited, and the overall digging job is vastly improved.

In addition to protecting the people who are involved in the excavation process, hydro excavation helps minimize damage to cables, lines and to underground pipes.  This can vastly lower expenses needed for restoration and repairs and can increase production substantially.  This can lead to long term benefits.  As safety issues and repairs decrease, insurance and liability costs also go down.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating is a family-owned, Christian business.  For more information, please contact us today.