We're excited to be featured in New Zealand Arboricultural Association's Tree Matters magazine! Their spring issue features a fantastic 4-page spread on the power of air excavation for root retention and tree relocation, with some brilliant examples of our work — including when we used air excavation to remove five mature pohutukawa
Meet our field operations manager!
Tyler Casey has just been promoted in-house to the role of field operations manager where he's charged with making the team run smoothly and efficiently, among other things. We quickly ran him through a Q&A so you could get to know him better... Q. What did you do before HydroVac? A. I was building and running paintball centres in
AirX cuts job from 4 days to 1.5 days
Rotorua's Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre is undergoing earthquake strengthening. We were called in, in conjunction with Seger Roading, to use our AirX truck to remove the sub-soils from beneath the building to expose the foundations. We positioned our AirX truck as close as possible to the building then connected an additional 20m of
Helpful dos and don’ts for your wastewater system
Water NZ has helpfully shared some fantastic dos and don'ts around wastewater system use — we could be (happily!) doing ourselves out of a job here because many of the things listed below are the reasons we get called out to help with failures or emergencies! Have a read of the below and get in touch if you have any questions or concerns —
Free wastewater system guides from Water NZ
Water NZ has put together these really helpful guides around domestic onsite wastewater systems. They're short and easy to read and they cover: Why you really do need to care for your onsite wastewater system Here's how they describe it: "Domestic wastewater is a messy, unpleasant, hazardous and complex medium. The bulk of it is water, but it
A day out with our crew
Sometimes it can be hard to explain up the kind of work we do at HydroVac but here’s a snippet of what a normal day might include for our team. On this particular day we had: Tyler and Peter using a hydro-excavation truck for a pre-build check to find the depth of the main sewer line running through the boundary. Scott and Alan from our CCTV