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Septic Tankers types

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Tardis have 3 different types on septic tankers for Septic tank Emptying

Did you know that Tardis Environmental have three different types of Septic tankers.

First Vacuum Tanker is our normal wet waste tanker. This is great for septic tank emptying and cesspool/cesspit emptying.  Tardis have different sized wet waste tankers ranging from our 18 ton to our massive 44 ton vacuum tanker.

Septic tank emptying

Next we have our wash down tanker. These can do all the same things as our wet waste tankers but with the added benefit of being able to carry clean and fresh water that is kept separate from the contaminated water. The clean water can be used to wash down a septic tank after a septic tank emptying service has been performed or can be used to deliver clean water, which can be used to perform a welfare service.

Septic tank EmptyingWe have other tankers like our low vol jet vac tanker and our high vol jet vac tanker. These are the best for cleaning pump station and unblocking drains.Last we have the pressure washer tanker. This again can do all of the above but with the added power of a jetting lance. This can be used to clean light debris from a pumping station or clean a gully and grease trap.

Gully Sucking

For more information on what services we can provide you like septic tank emptying or drain unblocking, call our friendly hire desk team who have all the knowledge and advice to ensure you have the correct tanker for the job.

Vacuum Tanker

Confined Space Information

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Does your Septic tank need a confined crew?

What size is a confined space?

A confined space does not have to be a small space which is hard to enter and exit for it to be classed as a confined space.it can also be a large silo or tank that has limited or restricted access or if the space is badly ventilated like a large tunnel. The CSR (Confined Space Regulations) 1997 describes confined space as any place. This will include chambers, vat, silos, sewer, well and any other  confined spaces that has a foreseeable risk.

These are as follows:

  • Drowning of any person at work
  • Loss of consciousness of any person arising from a high ambient temperature.
  • Fire or explosion
  • Loss of consciousness or asphyxiation of any person at work arising from gas, fumes, vapour or lack of oxygen
  • Asphyxiation of any person at work arising from a free flowing solid

What Is P.P.E?

P.P.E is short for Personal protective equipment.

What are the types of personal protective equipment?

  • Respirators
  • Protective gloves
  • Protective clothing
  • Protective footwear
  • Eye protection
Equipment for confined space

How do you check if you have the correct P.P.E on?

First you must check the following, Does if fit correctly, are you comfortable, will the P.P.E interfere with the job that is being done, is there any health risk like entanglement with machinery or overheating of equipment.

Tardis will ensure that when a confined space entry is required it is supervised by at least one man. All Drivers will have all the necessary P.P.E equipment. All other equipment including breathing apparatus, ropes, harnesses, winches, carabineers and fall/rescue equipment will always checked before use.

So no matter if it’s a septic tank or a massive silo you can be sure that Tardis Environmental will get the job done.

Septic tanks Beware

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Septic Tanks Beware there’s a new Tractor Unit About

Septic Tank Emptying

Tardis Environmental has just taken delivery of a new tractor unit. Our new Tractor unit is due to be Tardisifide with the company’s logo and paint scheme of yellow, green and red. When our tractor unit comes back from its Tardis makeover it will then go to our Mechanics bay to unsure the tractor unit is road worthy.

What will the new Tractor Unit do?

The new tractor unit will be able to deliver our H2O Bulk Water tanks ranging from 4000-6000 Gallons of fresh water. The water can be used for soakaway tests, bulk water storage and clean water for a large welfare unit, where a mains water supply isn’t available.

6000 Gallons Bulk Water Tank Trailer

 

When not delivering our H2O tanks it can then are used as a 6000 gallon vacuum tanker. The Vacuum tank trailer has the capacity to carry 6000 gallons of wet waste with a suction depth of approx. 6 metres. This means it can suck up wet waste from a septic tank easy. Most domestic septic tanks can only hold 1000 Gallons of wet waste but some industrial septic tanks can hold much more than a 1000 gallons. But with our 6000 Gallons septic tank emptying fleet, Tardis Environmental can make short work of any size septic tank.

Vacuum Tanker Trailer

 

Need a septic tank emptying service? Call Tardis today on 0800 731 0589 and speak to one of our highly trained and friendly hire staff.

Do you need a Crossrail Compliant Service?

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What is Crossrail?

Crossrail LTD was established in 2001 to help and develop vital link to the needs of people and business throughout the south east London. This will ensure that London continues its role as Europes leading Financial and business centre.

Crossrail Logo

Crossrail is a joint venture company between the Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT) until 5 December 2008 when it became a fully owned.. CRL represents a real commitment to the development of new services to tackle the lack of capacity and congestion on the existing network.

They achieved this by consulting with a broad range of stakeholders and the public at large. July 2008 the scheme gained parliamentary approval with the passing of the Crossrail Act.

If you work near or are on a Crossrail site. Your vehicles will have to be Crossrail Compliant.

How does Crossrail Compliant affect me?

All Crossrail contracts contain mandatory requirements for Lorries working on the project.
The Requirements are being implemented with full support of Crossrail’s principal contractors. This is a mandate that all Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) working on the project are fitted with a safety devices.

The Following Safety Devices must be fitted on your HGV’s. If you fail to have the correct safety equipment installed on your vehicle, you could end up being turned away from site.

  1. all HGVs must have Fresnel lenses
  2. Side scan equipment which will give of an audible beep in the driver’s cabin. This is to warn the driver of the HGV that there is an object or person on the left inside space.
  3. Side and Rear Cameras, with a tv monitor in the cabin
  4. Under-run guards must also be fitted. This is to help prevent cyclists from coming into contact with the HGVs wheels.
  5. Carry signs must also be fitted to warn cyclists and pedestrians.

Tardis Environmental can provide Crossrail Compliant Services like Septic Tank Emptying, Portable Toilet Hire, Water Bowser Hire, Bulk Water and Low/High Vol Jet Vac Services.

Crossrail Compliant

You will also need to have a full F.O.R.S Membership. Tardis Environmental has been awarded Bronze Membership.

So if you need a Crossrail Compliant service then give us a call today for more information on 0800 731 0589

Welfare Waste Removal

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Welfare Waste Removal

If you need a welfare service and waste tank emptying service, then you can count on Tardis Environmental get the job done.

Waste Tanker servicing

Why do I need my Welfare unit Serviced and the waste tank emptied? If you have a welfare unit at a site that has both toilets and a canteen then you will need to have the welfare unit serviced. So what does the service include? A service is where Tardis will restock your soap dispensers, resupply your toilet rolls and anything else that needs restocking. Some Welfare Units have their own Clean Water tank, Which Tardis will be able to fill with clean fresh none drinking water.

When placing an order for a Welfare waste tank empty service please let us know what the size of the waste tank is. This is to ensure that we send the correct vehicle to empty your waste tank.

Some welfare waste tanks can be as large as 1000 gallons and a normal service van can’t take that much waste and will need us to send a Vacuum tanker to remove all the waste.

Welfare Servicing

When ordering a welfare waste tank empty service, please ensure you have access for our Tankers to perform the service. All our tankers carry 40 metres standard. If you think you will need us to bring more hose then please ask the Hire Desk at the point of request, to make a note for the driver to put extra hose on the tanker.

For any other wet waste removal  like septic tank emptying, cesspool cleaning and cesspit emptying please call our Freephone number on 0800 731 0589.

Crossrail Compliance For Tankers (HGVs)

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Tardis have Crossrail compliant Tankers

What is the compliance that Crossrail make mandatory in their contracts?

With every Crossrail Contract there is a mandatory requirement for Lorries working on the project. This Mandatory requirement must be met or the contractor runs the risk of being turned away from the Crossrail site. This will be at the contractor’s expense and will be liable for any costs incurred.

Tardis Tanker Rear

What will you need to do to make sure you are within the guidelines?  All HGVs that turn up to a Crossrail site must have the following equipment attached or installed on the Vehicle. The Requirements are all HGVs must be fitted with Fresnel Lenses, side scan equipment which will then give of a loud audible beep in the drivers cab when an object is near, like a cyclist or pedestrian. Under-run guards that will prevent a cyclist from coming into contact with the wheels of the lorry. Vehicles must also have carry signs that will warn cyclists and pedestrians.Tardis 32 ton TankerTrixi mirrors are also being installed at the left turn at traffic signals near Crossrail sites.The measure will support the wider work by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.Tardis Environmental have Crossrail compliant Tankers, not only that our two brand new Scania lorries are fully Crossrail Compliant with even more safety features like side and rear cameras that will let the driver see where the tanker is reversing and what objects are in the way.

Tardis Tanker

Tardis Environmental is committed to providing a great service on septic tank emptying, cesspool cleaning and any other wet waste you have need of removal. So hire a Tardis Tanker today.

Vacuum Supreme!!!

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Septic tank Beware!

Whale has delivered our brand new 32 ton Vacuum Tanker. The new Scania 32 ton Vacuum Tanker has the capacity to carry over 3100 Gallons of wet waste, this is great for large septic tank emptying jobs and the other compartment will carry up to 1000 Gallons of clean fresh water (Not Suitable for Drinking).

The new 32 ton tanker is part of our ever growing Vacuum Tanker fleet.

What services can a vacuum tanker perform?

A vacuum tanker can perform services like septic tank emptying, cesspool emptying, cesspit cleaning, hazardous waste removal, tank wash downs and soakaway tests.

To empty an average septic tank that has the capacity to hold 1000 gallons of wet waste, it only takes our tankers approximately 7 mins with a 3” suction hose. For more info on our vacuum tankers suction abilities check out our Tanker Page.

What is a soakaway test?

A soakaway test is where a construction site needs to check the grounds soaking abilities. Our tanker will then turn up and pump water over the area they want to test and then see how long it will take to soak into the ground. This is to make sure the ground under the construction will not flood in light or heavy rain.

When we take your wet waste it becomes our waste and our responsibility to dispose of it within our strict guidelines and to make sure you have peace of mind. You can also request proof of disposal.

Tardis Environmental septic tank emptying services are nationwide and on a 24/7 call out service. So why not give us a call today on 0800 731 0589.

Gully Sucking supreme!!!

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New 26 Ton High Vol Jet Vac Tanker!!

Whale have delivered our brand new 26 ton High Vol jet vac. Our new High Vol jet vac tanker has a 3000 Gallon storage tank, mounted onto its chassis. The tank is split into two compartments. The first compartment has the capacity to hold 1000 Gallons of clean no drinking water. The second compartment carries 2000 gallons of wet waste like, sewage waste, septic tank waste, gully sucking waste and interceptor waste.

Gully sucker gully sucking

What Jobs will a High Vol Jet Vac Tanker perform?

The High Vol Jet Vac Tanker can perform so many tasks and services it’s untrue. Here are some of the tasks the tanker will perform.

A high pressure Jetting service that is provided by our High vol jet vac tanker is perfect for drain cleaning and drain unblocking with its high pressure jetting bomb.

High Pressure Jetting

 A jetting bomb is tear shaped and goes on the end of the high pressure hose. This tear shaped metal nozzle has approximately 7 small holes, One hole is located on the tip if nozzle, this cuts through the blockage in the pipe and the rest of the holes are located at the rear of nozzle and spray a high pressured ring of water to clean the rest of the pipe.

The tanker has a 2000 Gallon wet waste capacity; this is perfect for gully sucking, interceptor cleaning and general wet waste removal services.

You normally find gullies in a car park.

Drain Service

What happens if you ignore or don’t have a scheduled gully sucking service? You could end up with a flooded car park or construction site, which could force you to close the car park, until the matter is resolved. With a Tardis Scheduled gully sucking service, we will help in preventing this from happening.

If you have wet waste and need it removed ASAP then give us a call on 0800 731 0589 for more information

Need Information on Wet Waste?

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Septic Tank Emptying to Portable Toilet Hire

If you need information or advice on anything to do with portable toilet hire, you can either call our Freephone number 0800 731 0589 and speak to one of our highly trained advisors. We also have information about our portable toilets on our website www.tardishire.co.uk.

We have all the information on all our different types of portable toilet, urinals and portable showers.

Portable toilet Hire

Our portable toilet ranges from the construction Toilet which can either come as a cold wash or hot wash and is HSE compliant with its wash basin, which needs to be able to wash forearms and legs.

We have spec sheets on all our portable toilets, urinals and showers, we even have spec sheets for the service vans so you can be sure when ordering a toilet service, you have the correct access for the vehicle.

Did you know that Tardis has 6 depots around the UK?

Do you have a septic tank, cesspit or cesspool that needs a sechuled emptying service? We have a massive fleet of vacuum tankers ranging from 450 gallons capacity all the way up to our flag ship vacuum tanker which is able to suck up 6000 gallons. Why you order a wet waste emptying service from Tardis, please ensure that you check and make sure you have correct access for the vehicle we send for the job.

Septic tank Emptying

When you have placed an order with Tardis we will send Conformation and a spec sheet of the type of tanker that will be attending. If you’re a domestic house owner you probably wouldn’t want a 44 ton 6000 gallon tanker Turing up and not being able to gain access to the septic tank. Same goes for the construction site; you don’t want a Towable Vacuum taker that can only take 450 gallons and you have 6000 gallons of wet waste.

All our Tanker Spec Sheet s is available to download from the Website.

H2O Supply Water          

Bulk Water Storage

Need a water supply for your site?

Then don’t worry, with our range of water containers, bowsers and water tanks, you can be sure that Tardis will deliver. We have water containers that can hold 1000 litres, bowsers that can hold up to 10,000 litres. Need more? Then try out our H2O Tanker which has the capacity to carry 6000 gallons of fresh clean water (Not suitable for drinking).

Towable Water Bowser

You can also hire out an on-demand water pump that is either powered by electric or diesel.

We have many more service that we provide like jetting, CCTV, drain surveys and many more, so why not visit our website for more information on our services.

 

Septic tanks Beware!!

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The Septic Tankers Are Back in Town

We have recently taken delivery of two new septic tankers and one High Vol Jet Vac.

32 Vacuum TankerSeptic tank emptying

The two new septic tankers or Vacuum Tankers are both 32 tons and can carry up to 4000 gallons each. This makes them ideal for large septic tank emptying jobs that hold more than 1000 gallons of wet waste.  They are also great for soakaway tests and wash downs. Both vehicles are chapter 8 approved.

Tanker Needs a little paintHigh Tech Vacuum Tanker

So if you are in need of a septic tank emptying or cesspit/cesspool cleaning service, trust Tardis to get it done in a professional manner.

For more information on these septic tankers visit our Tanker Page and download our spec sheet for them.

Our New 26 ton High Vol Jet Vac is our biggest jet vac in our fleet. Our New 26 ton High Vol Jet Vac has the capacity to carry up to 3000 gallons of wet waste. The new Jet Vac Tanker will perform the following services, Wet Waste Removal, Drain cleaning and drain unblocking, Gully Emptying, Pressure cleaning, Aco Drain Cleaning and interceptor cleaning. This Vehicle is chapter 8 approved.

26 Ton High Vol TankerPerfect for Gully SuckingHigh vol jet vac Tanker

Spec sheet is available for down load here

So if you need a wet waste service, then give Tardis Environmental a call and speak to one of our highly trained staff. For more information about our services visit our website www.tardishire.co.uk