Whether they’re property managers or residential homeowners, most people deal with needing to excavate at some time or another. Fortunately, there are a number of new methods available that can make the process much easier. Let’s take a look at one of these, hydro excavation.
What is Hydro Excavation?
Hydro excavating is a process that combines pressurized water with an industrial strength vacuum. When used in tandem, hydro excavation services can both excavate soil and then evacuate it, as well.
What is Hydro Excavation Used For?
The process is beneficial for all kinds of excavating. For example, it can be used for potholing, slot trenching, removing miscellaneous debris, cold weather digging, piling hole excavation, and much more.
One especially useful application is with exposing underground utilities. In fact, there’s no better way to find those buried utilities than with hydro excavation. The problem with conventional methods of excavating is that they can cause major problems if someone’s digging were to run into a buried septic system.
This isn’t a concern when hydro excavating is being done. The process is often known as “soft digging” because the water is so non-destructive to whatever it touches. As such, if it does run into underground tanks, they’re left unharmed, and a much larger problem is avoided.
Further Benefits
Opting to use hydro excavation carries a number of other benefits with it, as well. Hydro excavating is extremely cost-effective, for example. This is partially due to the fact that there is not nearly as great a need for ground repairs when the process is finished, as compared to conventional methods.
That’s actually a good example of how hydro excavation can save money. Another is because it’s so much quicker, as well. When hydro excavation is used for problems near or below highways, for example, traffic isn’t impeded for nearly as long when compared to conventional methods.
There are a number of reasons to choose hydro excavating for your excavation needs. Edenflo can not only help you better understand these instances, but they’ll also provide you with the services as well.
