Everything you Need to Know About Hydrovac Daylighting

Excavation is an important aspect of several businesses like construction, mining, and oil and gas to name a few. Hydrovac services are site excavation methods that use ‘hydro’ or water power. This excavation process uses pressurized water to remove soil and other materials to expose underground utilities. It is a cost-effective and safe method as it utilizes quality equipment and ensures no underground infrastructures are damaged.

Hydrovac services offered by hydrovac companies are available in different forms depending on the site and excavation needs. One of the popular services is hydrovac daylighting. Read on to find out more about daylighting.

Hydrovac Services – What is Hydrovac daylighting?

The term daylighting describes the process of unearthing and exposing underground utilities and pipelines to the light of day. The unearthing of buried lines was traditionally done by hands using age-old tools. Most recently, air vacuum excavation has been used to bring to surface underground utilities. While the drawbacks of manual digging are understood, air vacuum excavation has its own disadvantages like increased time and effort, reduced productivity, lack of safety, and more.

Hydrovac daylighting is a non-destructive, safe way of excavating, which replaces the traditional system of hand digging and air vacuum excavation.

Where is Hydrovac Daylighting Used?

Hydrovac daylighting is used in a wide range of excavation and cleaning applications like potholing, exposure of buried pipes and cables, culvert cleanouts, service repair pits, trenching pole holes, types of debris removal, tank cleaning, and shoring installations.

Benefits of Hydrovac Daylighting

Traditional methods of unearthing underground pipes and cables came with several drawbacks. Exposing a cable or pipe through these methods could take hours together depending on the depth of the underground utility. Plus, hand digging has also resulted in the damage to utilities. Hydrovac daylighting is comparatively a safe and speedy method. It is used to enhance project safety, increase productivity, and decrease project costs. There are several benefits of using hydrovac daylighting including:

• Increased Productivity and Safety

This process takes less time and is surrounded by stringent safety standards developed and incorporated by a team of safety experts. Hydrovac companies that offer this service, use quality equipment to make it quick and safe. Plus, the procedure takes less time as compared to traditional methods. Trained professionals, combined with quality products, increases productivity, safety, and also reduces overall project time and cost.

• Powerful and Flexible

Hydrovac daylighting can be used in areas having limited access or frozen soil. This procedure employs extra-long vacuum and water hoses to allow workers to work 100 feet away from the equipment and excavate up to more than 9m deep. Plus, hydrovac daylighting can be used in any weather condition, soil condition, frozen grounds, and more making it highly versatile.

If you have an excavation project, connect with us to know more about daylighting and our range of other hydrovac services.