hydro excavation

Vacuum Excavation- the Smarter, Safer Way

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Traditionally, utility excavation requires a large digging machine, such as a backhoe. To dig large trenches in the ground creating a hazardous work and home environment. Even under strict supervision and skilled guidance, large digging machines pose a risk that could lead to costly damage and ugly eyesores. Other methods include manual digging, requiring a large group of workers, long hours and many tools such as pickaxes, shovels, and sledgehammers.

Vacuum Excavation- the Smarter, Safer Way

By utilizing vacuum excavation, a specialized process of soft excavation that uses pressurized water to break up dirt, gravel, and debris, while efficiently, and immediately extracting the loosened material with a high-powered vacuum. This method allows for a smaller group of workers and fewer machines to deliver ground-breaking results. A safer, smarter, and more efficient means of excavation.

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Holding close to our traditional and Christian values, we here at 4 Warriors Excavating strive for excellence and safety. Blessed with the ability to provide a safer service to families and contractors. Let 4 Warriors serve you, with better safety, lower cost, and a friendly smile.

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!

Advantages of Vacuum Excavation

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The process of vacuum excavation is a process wherein an excavating test hole is compressed with a great deal of air in order to loosen the dirt.  A system is used to take in the soil by way of a tank.  The procedure is considered a safe technique and is, relatively-speaking, one of the safest methods of excavating.  It is used as a way to properly expose a utility.  Many companies involved in excavation have made use of the process.  It is a fact, that most companies making use of air vacuuming have reported a high success ratio.  Many excavations have been executed where the utility underneath the ground has not received any damage whatsoever.

Advantages of Vacuum Excavation

The equipment used includes a source for the power, air and vacuum systems, tanks for the soil, demolition and drilling tools which are driven by air, and, naturally, control systems.  The components housed on the air vacuum truck are safely mounted.

The advantages of what is termed as test pitting, also known as vacuum excavation are numerous.  Test pitting is the way excavation companies expose a utility.  The list below provides the reader with the advantages of vacuum excavation pertinent to verification.

  • One feature, and pointed out above, is that the utility receives no damage whatsoever.
  • Secondly, no moving parts make contact with the utility being exposed.
  • The process is usable on all utilities.  Utilities where vacuum excavations are used include:  gas, thermal distribution systems, water, power, and communications inclusive of fiber optics.
  • A small hole used in the process is standard.  The hole measures only twelve inches by twelve inches.
  • Vacuum excavation, by its very nature, is far less disruptive and is relative to a much safer and cleaner work site.
  • The cleaner, quieter method of vacuum excavation makes the entire environment free of traffic congestion.
  • The process allows for an easy patch–either permanent or temporary.
  • Due to its simplicity, vacuum excavation provides the client with a very cost-effective means of exposing a utility.

The application in way of vacuum test pitting for verification of a utility is practical during the design stage as well as the planning stage.  Critical information is obtainable, necessary for proper design and project planning. The process provides a reduction of undue surprises.    In turn, delays during the phase of construction are minimized as well as associated costs.

Utilities which conflict with new installations are moved successfully and placed in service prior to construction.  The proposed design, additionally, is changeable in order to correspond properly with conditions verified within the field.

When the depth of a utility is not properly determined during the design phase, then making use of vacuum testing, during construction, serves as a preventative measure in that it blocks cost-prohibitive damage to occur to the existing utilities.    There are advantages, too, of using vacuum test pitting during the construction phase:

  • The vacuum excavation procedure is a safe way to expose a utility just as it is safe during the verification phase
  • The utility suffers no damage from the process;
  • It is possible to expose the utility, prior to excavation of it, with a backhoe or a trencher
  • The utilities can be verified and profiled prior to boring operations.

In order to get the ball rolling, it makes sense to get a hold of professionals.  Interested parties will wish to contact us  in order to attain more details about the operational aspects of vacuum excavation.

When and Why Do You Need Hydro Excavation?

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Hydro excavationWhen and Why Do You Need Hydro Excavation? may not be a term most people are familiar with until they need it. There are a number of situations that warrant the services of a hydro excavation company, including:

  • Locating underground features like utility lines
  • Installing underground cables, pipes, etc.
  • Removal of underground debris
  • Sump clean out

There are plenty more, but you get the idea. These types of projects have traditionally been done either by hand or by equipment like backhoes and other machinery, but they can cause damage to unseen underground features as well as the environment, not to mention the ever-present risk to workers. And with hydro excavation, freezing temperatures are no problem.

With hydro excavation, highly pressurized water is pumped into the ground while at the same time the “slurry” being created is vacuumed out and into a holding tank. During this procedure, no underground cables, pipes, utility lines or any other features are damaged, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming repairs, which ultimately result in project delays and missed deadlines.

Why choose 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating over other hydro excavation companies? The answer is simple: we care. We care about you, your project, your land, your family and the environment. We’re a family-owned company that understands the importance of staying within your budget; our goal is not only to meet your expectations, but to exceed them. Our operators, technicians and equipment are the best in the industry, so you will always get our best on your project.

When you need hydro excavation services for your project, contact us to discuss how we can help.