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A crew from R.I.C. Plumbing in Lockport, New York, holds the new HDPE pipe being inserted into an existing pipe lateral where crushed stone had collapsed in. Crews used a vacuum excavator with its hose attached to the end of the HDPE pipe in order to vacuum out the crushed stone and push the HDPE pipe through.
Scott Kuhns knew it wouldn’t be a normal run-of-the-mill job when he found out his company was the fourth one called in to try and find the cause of a sewer lateral blockage. “We were referred to the customer by the third plumber who had been there,” says Kuhns, co-owner of R.I.C. Plumbing in Lockport, New York. “Two other companies tried to snake it. One guy got his jetter stuck, cut it off and left it in there. Another guy tried it and couldn’t get it open. The third guy came in, looked at it and referred the customer to us.”
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