	{"id":85298,"date":"2022-06-21T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=85298"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:52:51","slug":"james-vac-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/james-vac-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe company adds vac operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAMILIAR faces in the Ballarat business community, Dannielle and Jason James have taken on a new civil construction challenge, expanding their operations beyond directional drilling.<\/p>\n<p>In their 10 years of running Pipe Pro Drilling, they sometimes ran vacuum excavation trucks beside their drills on work sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last four years, we\u2019ve kept getting requests from people to hire them off us, so in 2020, Jason started looking into building and engineering our own truck from scratch,\u201d Ms James said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe researched the market, and started running James Vac Solutions last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms James said demand for these services, particularly in Ballarat\u2019s growth corridors including Delacombe and Sebastopol, is \u201cthrough the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every day of operation has been so busy that they\u2019ve purchased two additional vacuum excavation trucks and a street-sweeper to work harmoniously, and they now have five employees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85302\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85302\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MDP_PipePro-002-5627-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MDP_PipePro-002-5627-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MDP_PipePro-002-5627-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MDP_PipePro-002-5627-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MDP_PipePro-002-5627.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Mackay, Deane Bird, and Jason and Dannielle James are running \u2018sister\u2019 businesses, Pipe Pro and James Vac Solutions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe vacuum excavation trucks have a big, long spout, similar to your vacuum at home, which can be put into holes to suck out mud, water and waste on worksites, so people can then excavate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir second function is high-pressure water jet excavation. If workers need to dig up the side of a road to see where a gas line is, high pressure water can flush mud, rock and dirt out, to expose pipelines safely without breaking them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything\u2019s surrounding them, the big vacuum hose can suck it out. It\u2019s also more environmentally friendly, and time efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For people living in growing estates near worksites, she said the service lessens the need for big excavators to dig up nature strips near homes, and any mess made is taken away at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur street sweeper cleans the road after the work is done, and independently to our jobs, other civil construction companies across Ballarat are hiring it out for the day to clean up their sites,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMILIAR faces in the Ballarat business community, Dannielle and Jason James have taken on a new civil construction challenge, expanding their operations beyond directional drilling. 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