Plumbing Contractor Uses Vacuum Excavator to Help Get New Pipe In

Plumber finds a unique approach for cleaning out a stone-filled pipe while also installing a new pipe.

Plumbing Contractor Uses Vacuum Excavator to Help Get New Pipe In

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...

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