Maintaining
those pipes that run under your feet and beneath the ground is more crucial
than you may think. Since those pipelines carry utilities we need day-to-day,
like compressed gas or water, you must undertake their maintenance periodically
to ensure their long lives. For such a task, you can use the process called
daylighting. Let's see what daylighting is all about and how daylighting
excavation services in Bonnyville can help you.
What is daylighting excavation, and
why use hydrovac services for it?
Daylighting
simply means exposing underground facilities like optical fibers, electrical
lines, water pipes, etc., to natural light by removing the soil around them.
This is done to detect any leaks, spills, or damage that may be disrupting
their functioning effectively. Before excavating, surface locators detect the
position of these utilities accurately, so minimum excavation is required, and
these utilities are also safe from any damage during the process.
But how can
hydrovac daylighting excavation services in Bonnyville help you with
daylighting? Since hydrovac services use highly pressurized water to loosen the
soil and create a sludge, which is sucked by a vacuum and sent to a truck on
stand-by with two tanks, one store the freshwater to be sprayed and one that
stores the sludge for disposal. But how are they better than mechanical and
manual digging excavations? These utilities are costly. Any damage to them can
end up costing you a fortune, or these damages may develop and create further
problems in the future. Since hydrovac daylighting excavation services in
Bonnyville use water, which is non-destructive, there are negligible
risks to these expensive utilities.
Did you know you can use hydrovac for
culvert cleaning services in Lloydminster?
Culverts are
necessary to dispose of liquid waste from our homes and industries. But
sometimes these culverts can get clogged by several elements. It can be random
debris, branches, logs, and sometimes ice, called Canadian permafrost. Ice can
cause several problems as it is solid and hence can damage the culverts from
the inside. Culvert cleaning services in Lloydminster use hydrovac to
clean blocked culverts effectively.
If ice hinders
the water flow, highly pressurized heated water is sprayed on it or inside it by
an expert hydrovac operator. This water is heated with a one million BTU boiler
to a high temperature. When this water comes in contact with the ice, it begins
to melt, thus eventually clearing the area obstructing the water's flow.
But sometimes,
these culverts may be extremely narrow and long. In such cases, culvert
cleaning services in Lloydminster use a piece of equipment called the
snake. It is attached to a long thin tube, and it sprays water from one jet on
the front. It also has six jets on the back that spray water to move it
forward, making it self-propelling. The sprayed water melts and breaks down the
ice that then flows to the back and is removed by suction.
When looking for culvert cleaning services in
Lloydminster, consider a hydrovac crew to do the job effectively and
quickly without causing any damage.