Fort Lauderdale
Excavation, grease and drainage work in Fort Lauderdale, off our own trucks and answered around the clock.
Working in Fort Lauderdale
We work Fort Lauderdale regularly, mostly around Las Olas Boulevard, the downtown grid around Broward Boulevard, the 17th Street Causeway and the New River marine district.
A city built around canals, with an older core running older mains. Fort Lauderdale has been working through a long infrastructure replacement effort after well-publicized sewer failures, so there is both a lot of aging pipe and a lot of new work going in around it.
Who calls us here
Las Olas and beachfront restaurants, port and marine industry operations, hotel and hospital kitchens, and the contractors working the replacement program.
What we run in Fort Lauderdale
Both sides of our business stay busy in Fort Lauderdale, and the excavation side is the one that grows. When a contractor has to find an old main under a downtown street, nobody wants a backhoe near pipe that has already failed once. We daylight it with water and vacuum, expose the line clean, and let the crew see what they are tying into before anyone commits. Potholing ahead of directional bores through the downtown grid is steady work for us. On the environmental side, the Las Olas kitchens and the hotel houses along the beach run traps that fill faster than the owners expect, and the marine yards on the New River generate oily water and catch basin sludge that has to leave the property with paperwork behind it. We pump it, haul it, and document the disposal.
Getting a truck in
Downtown staging is the real problem. Between Broward Boulevard and the river the lanes are narrow, the curb is spoken for, and a tanker parked wrong shuts down a block. We scout the approach first and we work a lot of that district after closing, when we can set cones and take the room we need. Las Olas kitchens are mostly served from a rear alley, which is fine for hose but tight for the truck, so we run line rather than fight the corner. Yards on the New River give us room but the approach is often soft and shared with boat traffic. The 17th Street Causeway backs up hard, so we time crossings.
Through the year
Rainy season is when the catch basins in the older neighborhoods show what they have been collecting all winter, and that is when calls come in fastest. Before storm season we get asked to clear basins and inlets on commercial sites so the water has somewhere to go. Winter is the opposite problem: the restaurants are full, the hotels are full, and grease volume climbs on the beach and along Las Olas. Summer is quieter for kitchens, which makes it the right window for the line jetting people put off.
Fort Lauderdale sits in Broward County, and everything on this page runs out of our yard in Miami. See the rest of Broward or look at the trucks working.
One call covers both halves of the job in Fort Lauderdale
Ask most contractors in this city to pump a trap and daylight a service line in the same week and you are hiring two companies, coordinating two schedules and chasing two sets of paperwork. We built this one so that is a single call.
A property manager in Fort Lauderdale calling about a parking lot that holds water after every storm frequently turns out to have two problems: basins full of sand, and a structure that has settled or cracked below the surface. The first is a cleaning. The second needs somebody who can excavate around whatever else is buried at that low point without cutting it. Splitting that across two companies is how a one day job becomes a three week one.
The same logic runs the other way. A restaurant with a line that keeps blocking has a jetting problem and a trap interval problem, and treating either one alone means doing it again in a few months. Because the crew that clears the line is the crew that services the trap, the conversation covers both instead of stopping at the edge of somebody’s scope.
What you get in writing
Every environmental service in Fort Lauderdale generates a manifest showing what came out and where it went, before and after photographs, and disposal records from an approved facility. That file is what an inspector asks for, and it is the reason the haulers permit and the dumping permit matter rather than being background detail.
On the excavation side the deliverable is different but the principle is the same. An exposed utility gets measured for depth and offset, identified by size and material, and photographed, so the drawing can be corrected before a trench crew corrects it the expensive way. Everything we run is available across this area, and telling us the job is the fastest way to find out which part of it you actually need.
What we run in Fort Lauderdale
Both halves of the company work this city. Excavation on one side, grease and drainage on the other, one phone number for both.
Also close by
We are usually working somewhere in this corner of Broward already.
Something failed tonight in Fort Lauderdale. Somebody answers.
Struck line, blocked kitchen drain, a basin backing up in the middle of a storm. We run every day of the year, and the phone reaches a person rather than a queue. This company is first responder owned, and the emergency side of it works the way that suggests.
Questions we get asked
Do you charge extra to come out to Fort Lauderdale?
Fort Lauderdale is inside the area we run. Tell us the job and we will tell you plainly whether it makes sense for us to be the ones doing it.
How fast can you get a truck to Fort Lauderdale?
Depends what is already running and where you are. Call and you will get a real answer rather than a maybe. We run every day of the year.
Do you service both restaurants and construction sites in Fort Lauderdale?
Both. Grease traps and cooking oil on one side, excavation and utility work on the other, out of the same yard.
Do you work nights here?
Regularly. Most kitchen work in Fort Lauderdale happens after close, and a lot of utility work has to happen off-peak.
What paperwork do we get?
Manifests, disposal records and photos on the environmental side, and measured, photographed utility records on the excavation side.
Tell us what the job is
Tell us where in Fort Lauderdale the job is and what is going on.
Two trades, one call. We own the trucks, hold the permits, and put our own people on the job.
VacRite, Miami
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