Vacuum-excavation units available for hire across our coverage area — safe, low-impact dig around live services where mechanical excavation would carry unacceptable strike risk. Operator and machine together, day rate or project hire.
Vacuum excavation breaks the ground up with high-pressure air and lifts the spoil into a tank. It exposes live gas, water, HV and fibre without touching them — and gets to depth in places a mechanical excavator can't work at all.
We hire units out with a trained operator as standard — the machine is only as useful as the person using it. Day rate for short jobs, project rate for longer programmes, full insurance provided.
Trial holes dug to exact size around live services. Root-safe work where mature trees are a planning condition. Building sites, alleyways and footways where the working room is measured in inches. Utilities, highways, construction and rail — anywhere the cost of a strike outweighs the cost of doing it properly.
No-strike excavation · live-service safe · operator + machine · day-rate or project hire.
What the machine buys you on site.
Non-contact digging around live gas, water, HV and fibre. Services get uncovered, not struck.
It requires fewer workers than manual digging and speeds up project timelines.
Building sites, alleyways, narrow footways — anywhere a machine won't fit but a suction hose will.
Protected trees, heritage paving, archaeology — dug without disturbing what has to stay put.
Straight into the unit's tank as you dig. No stockpile on the footway, no separate skip.
Tighter working area and a smaller closure — easier traffic management, easier permit window.
No surprises in the invoice. Quote the job, we quote a rate that covers the machine, fuel and operator.
Trial holes, live service exposure and excavation around trees from recent Vac-Ex hires.
Trial holes vac-dug at marked locations across a planned gas renewal corridor. Existing services exposed and renewed, gas main pipe replaced. Zero strikes.
Excavation around a live HV cable that ran directly across the proposed dig. Mechanical excavation was out of scope from the start — Vac-Ex got us to depth, utilities exposed cleanly.
Vac-Ex around the root zone of a protected mature tree where a planning condition ruled out mechanical excavation. Roots preserved intact, main replaced.
Project-rate hire for a multi-week programme — unit and operator deployed across consecutive sites, excavations coordinated daily with the client. Predictable cost, no day-rate surprises.
Vac-Ex is the safe-dig discipline, but the same depots also run the gas works that follow it, the reinstatement that closes the highway back over, and the grab hire that keeps the work moving.