Hydrovac trucks aren’t all about industrial vacuum systems and daylighting services for large companies. Bonnyville’s top vendor for hydrovac services offers a vital service for corporates and residents – septic cleaning & snaking.
It’s an essential service that most people without heated pipes will require when sewage water surfaces in the bathroom and kitchen, especially during the winter months. You’ll know it by the color or stench that follows.
Why does my kitchen sink have sewage water?
Septic pipes carry water from various drains to a septic tank underground. Though a hydrovac company’s actual expertise exposes these underground pipes and facilitates their customers to pinpoint the damages sometimes caused by expanding ice inside, some provide effective solutions to remove a blockage. The reason for the headaches caused by a blocked septic line is grease, fruit peels, hair, or anything else that shouldn’t have been flushed or thrown down the drain. Hot grease poured down the drain is usually one of the main reasons for the blockage because it collects and solidifies. It’s hard to remove without the appropriate temperature to melt it. The best option is to contact Bonnyville’s hydrovac experts for septic cleaning & snaking.
The blockage usually caused over time in a septic pipe makes water collect and eventually freeze in Alberta’s winter weather. If the area near the blockage in the line has an access point nearby, a hydrovac team’s ‘snake’ can be inserted. This is an ingenious device which is a collection of seven jet sprays on a nozzle, one pointing to the front and the others pointing backwards at forty-five degree angles. Water heated on a hydrovac truck’s one million BTU boiler is sprayed with immense force through the snake’s front to clear any blockage in its path, and at the same time, the rear ones propel it forward. The debris from the front is pushed towards the pipe’s access point, where a powerful vacuum hose uses suction to collect the sewage water inside the debris tank.
Expose underground lines to pinpoint the problem
Uncovering lines is any hydrovac operator’s forte. Those with expertise in septic cleaning & snaking can maneuver the nozzle around corners and elbows in the pipe. This skill can also be beneficial for unblocking frozen culverts in Bonnyville. If everything fails, the best option can be to replace the pipe and any other that is leaking or broken. It doesn’t take long for the hydrovac experts to uncover the line with their truck parked nearby. The equipment they use for the job is a wand, suction hose, and two tanks on the hydrovac truck. They create a ‘slurry’ with high-powered blasts of water from the wand, which is a wet mixture of soil and rocks. The suction hose works in sync to quickly remove the slurry underneath it and leave the area clean as a whistle. The operator and swamper control the water and suction with a wireless remote control for the truck’s hydrovac equipment. Once the underground line is exposed to the level required, it can be inspected.
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