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What is Hydro Vacuum Excavation?

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Hydro Vacuum excavation is the process of using water to safely uncover ground utilities. High pressured water breaks up the dirt while a large high-powered vacuum sucks it out to reveal utilities. Vacuum excavation can dig a deep hole with precision in a slight fraction of the time it takes an experienced person to dig by hand. Because it can be done with precision, there is far less mess and the process is non-destructive. Below we’ll discuss why you should choose It.

What is Hydro Vacuum Excavation?

The top reasons to consider vacuum excavation:

  • highly cost-effective
  • less manpower
  • cleaner
  • can complete a dig without disrupting your utilities
  • vacuum excavation will pick up virtually any material such as rock, sand, mud and water

The types of projects that benefit from vacuum excavation include:

  • Utility companies and pipelines as they repair and install
  • Sump and catch basin cleaning
  • Excavation in high traffic areas
  • Clean-up of construction sites
  • Pipe and sewer installation and repair
  • Underground utility locating

Vacuum excavating is also referred to as soft excavation technology. When using this technology through the services of 4 Warriors, our clients will find they save money because of the precision of the process. Time is also saved because there is the surprise of unknown underground utilities is greatly reduced.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating is a family owned company. Our experience and commitment to dependable, high-quality work will leave you satisfied and ready to call upon us when our services are necessary.

An Overview of Hydro Excavating

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Hydro-excavation is one of the most common sense ways of accomplishing one of the most basic of man’s activities, digging a hole! In ancient times, most of our holes were small. Perhaps we were digging for roots that we could use as food to feed our families or perhaps we were digging a hole in the side of a cliff so that we could have temporary shelter. As the times we live in have become more complex, however, so have the ways we utilize holes.

Hydro Excavating: An Overview

Holes serve as the basis for almost every construction project and hydro-excavation is one of the most eco-friendly and time-effective ways of digging them. Whether you are digging a hole for the installation of utility posts, building the family home or constructing a high-rise building, hydro-excavation should be one of your number one choices in terms of methodologies. It can replace most of the noisy and ground-jarring types of other equipment that are commonly employed in the field.

Hydro-excavation is about as natural of a process as there is in the construction field. One has only to watch the waters of a stream slowly work away expanding and changing its sides to witness the power of water. Ecologically, we would call that process stream erosion. In construction, we call what amounts to basically that same process, by a simpler term. That term is “smart.” In effect, what that stream is doing is hydro excavating soils to suit its purpose.

I’ll never forget the time my young daughter came into the house with tears in her eyes because she said the water garden hose had crawled down a hole and she could not get it out! When we went outside to determine what she was talking about, we discovered that the hose was indeed embedded in a hole, embedded so deeply that even us adults couldn’t pull it out! We were living in Florida at the time and the sandy soil and the unattended hose had combined to perform a feat that seemed almost supernatural! Basically, however, that is what hydro-excavation is. Not supernatural in any sense of the word, but a very effective and quiet way to dig holes!

We have specialized equipment that pressurizes the water. Then we carefully put that water to work digging the hole so that it meets the precise criteria you have specified. Simultaneous to digging, we are at work pumping out the excess water and soil and storing it cleanly and efficiently in a large tank. Later, according to your preference, we can use it for irrigation and fill either right on site or at another location.

Contact us and let us tell you more about the benefits of hydro-excavation, about its reliability, its safety, and its cost effectiveness! Go ahead and use a shovel to dig those holes to plant your rose bushes but if you are thinking a little larger in scale, we will be glad to do the job for you!

Hydro Excavating Saves Trees

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Trees have many positive impacts on both the environment and on landscape aesthetics. They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as well as harmful gasses such as sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. They provide shade in the summer and cool the surrounding air through evaporation. Their presence has a stress relieving effect on most people and they enhance the beauty of both residential and private property.

Trees also enhance property real estate values. They make rental property more attractive to tenants. This is why you shouldn’t take lightly any ground excavation work done around the trees on your property. Damaging the roots is harmful and potentially fatal to trees because they use them for water and nutrient absorption and for structural stability.

Hydro excavatingHydro Excavating Saves Trees is used for safely digging in the vicinity of underground plumbing, electrical lines, and optical cables. It uses water under pressure to loosen soil which is immediately sucked out along with the water with a vacuum pipe. Likewise, hydro excavating is safer for tree root systems when digging holes and trenches near trees.

There is no reason to take out a tree, relocate it, or risk damage to its roots with mechanical digging methods. If you have large beautiful trees on your property, consider that they take between 10 to 30 years to reach their full size. This is a long time to wait because of root damage caused by excavation work. Even if a tree survives root damage, its ability to absorb water and nutrients from the ground is weakened. This in turn stunts the tree’s growth and makes it more vulnerable to disease.

When you need to have excavation work done, protect the environment, your property value, and enjoyment of your property by hiring hydro excavation professionals for the job. 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating has the expertise for the job without damaging the landscape of your commercial or residential property. For more information, contact us.

Hydro Excavating Embraces National Safe Digging Month

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Hydro Excavating Embraces National Safe Digging MonthApril 2016 marks the return of a very important, national observation. It’s Safe Digging Month and all of us here at 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating wanted to take a moment and discuss digging safety. Originally designed to highlight dangers in the pipeline industry, it has since morphed to include digging in other industries. Plus, it serves as a good reminder to residential property owners too.

Hydro excavating is one of the safest ways to dig that our family knows of and we’d heartily recommend it to everyone that needs to reach below the earth’s surface. What makes it safer than just grabbing a shovel or renting a backhoe? For one, it avoids the need for large, search holes. And as we all know, holes pose fall risks as well as help to make the ground temporarily unstable. Also, they may inadvertently trap wildlife and capture standing water. Standing water, of course, creates dangers of its own.

Dangerous holes are just the beginning. Hydro excavating keeps people and machines from cutting into dangerous materials. For example, it can safely identify pipes used to transport raw sewage, natural gas, petroleum and chemical plant waste from place to place. Plus, it can just as easily locate minor things like residential irrigation pipes, termite treatment lines and underground cables. What else can hydro excavating do to ensure digging safety?

Once underground obstacles have been identified, they may be mapped for future reference. So after catastrophic events like earthquakes and sink holes, the maps may help area managers protect residents and plan rebuilds. They can also make relocating or adding various resources to storm damaged areas easier too. For instance, after flooding managers may need to dig a diversion channel to prevent further drowning deaths.

To learn more about safe digging and how hydro excavation is key to its continued execution, please contact us today.