Excavation is a critical aspect in many industries such as construction, mining, plumbing, landscaping, and more. Hydro excavation is a technologically advanced excavation method that cuts through the soil using a controlled stream of pressurized water to expose underground utilities. This excavation method is cost-effective and safe and ensures that no infrastructures are damaged during the process.
Hydrovac excavation offers many benefits and has a wide range of applications. One of its most popular applications includes hydrovac daylighting.
What Is Hydrovac Daylighting?
As the name indicates, hydrovac daylighting is a process that includes unearthing and exposing underground utilities and pipelines to the light of the day. Previously this unearthing of buried lines was done by hands using old tools, which was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unsafe. On the other hand, hydrovac daylighting is a time-efficient, non-destructive, and safer way of digging than manual and air vacuum excavation methods.
Where Is Hydrovac Daylighting Used?
Daylighting is used in a wide range of excavation and cleaning services. Some of its applications include:
- Potholing, a process that uses vacuum excavation to locate underground utilities
- Trenching potholes
- Exposing buried pipelines and cables
- Culvert clean-outs
- Debris removal
- Tank cleaning
- Shoring installations
Benefits Of Hydrovac Daylighting
Traditional excavation methods of unearthing underground utilities came with a lot of drawbacks and risks. Depending upon the depth of the underground utility, exposing pipelines and cables with these methods would take up hours and sometimes days to complete the project. Moreover, hand digging often resulted in damaging the utilities and increasing the overall cost of the project.
In contrast, hydrovac daylighting is a safe, cost-effective, and fast process. It significantly enhances the projects’ efficiency, safety, productivity while decreasing unforeseen expenses and project cost. Some important benefits of hydrovac daylighting include:
Increased Efficiency
By employing hydrovac daylighting, you can ensure that your excavation project’s efficiency and productivity will increase significantly. It increases your project’s efficiency in the following ways:
- A high-pressure stream of water coming from the hydrovac truck can efficiently break up the compacted soil. The slurry formed as a result is immediately air vacuumed into a tank and disposed of. This simultaneous digging and cleaning make it a time-efficient and productive process.
- During this process, no underground utilities are damaged. This helps the contractors avoid any additional repair costs, which they usually have to pay for under other excavation methods.
- Since it is a relatively advanced excavation method as compared to traditional digging methods, it involves trained professionals and quality equipment. These two factors make sure that your daylight excavation is done as efficiently as possible.
Increased Safety
Enhanced productivity of the process itself can increase safety levels on the job site. In addition to that, hydrovac daylighting follows stringent safety standards developed by safety experts. These safety standards meet those established by natural gas and oil producers and utility manufacturers.
Furthermore, trained and certified professionals possess a proven ability to work safely around various excavation sites and every kind of utility, including energized cables, gas pipelines, and more. Plus, the equipment they use is of high quality, which further adds to the overall safety of the process.
Powerful And Versatile
In hard-to-reach areas, hydrovac daylighting uses extra-long vacuum and water hoses, allowing workers to work over 600 feet away from the truck and excavate at depths of more than 40 feet. It can also work efficiently regardless of the soil condition or type. For example, you can use hydrovac daylighting on frozen surfaces, rocky soil, tough clay, and more.
Ghost Hydrovac
Ghost Hydrovac is an experienced hydrovac excavation company in Alberta and British Columbia. We offer a range of expert hydrovac services, including directional drilling, daylighting, utility installation, cleaning, washing, and more. For additional information, visit our website or contact us here today.