Our work
The work, as it looked on the day.
Photographs from water network jobs our team has worked on: excavation, laying, road crossings, house connections and reinstatement.
Excavation
Machine where there is room, by hand where there are other services in the ground.
01 Backhoe cutting a service trench in a residential street
02 Excavating a pit by hand
03 Open trench, cut and trimmed
Laying
Pipe on a clean bed, threaded beneath the cables and pipes already there.
01 New HDPE line laid beneath an existing duct
02 Blue warning tape laid along the trench: “Caution, water mains below”
03 New HDPE service line on its bed in the trench
Road crossings
A launch pit either side, a bore beneath the asphalt, and the main pulled through.
01 Sleeve at the mouth of a bored crossing
02 Launch pit dug beside the road, barriers out
03 Checking depth in the trench
House connections
The open trench to the meter, and the same frontage once it is closed.
Reinstatement
Pipe laid, warning tape over it, ground compacted level. Three photographs of one trench.
01 Lay
02 Protect
03 Reinstate
On site
Barriers, hard hats and high-visibility vests: the plain parts of doing it properly.
01 Hand excavation along a wall, the crew in hard hats and high-visibility vests
02 Open trench along a residential lane, barriers in place