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Hot Tapping Around Utility Conflicts

Have you ever had a utility conflict before? Our hot tapping crew came across a duct bank when setting up to wet tap this 8×8 Ductile Iron water main in the City of Surrey. We decided to add an 8″x8″x12″ spool to the tapping sleeve to have proper valve access. There is always a way to tie in your infrastructure

42IN HDPE Line Stop

42IN HDPE & 36IN Steel Sewer Forcemain Line Stops Wrapped Up in Nanaimo

Pacific Flow Control is excited to wrap up another successful large diameter line stop project complete with 16IN bypass hot taps. This work was completed on an HDPE and carbon steel sewer force main with engineered JCM mechanical line stop and hot tapping sleeves. Large diameter line stops and bypass hot taps such as these allow you to save ten’s,

Hydrant Servicing

Do Your Hydrant Reports Have Photos?

Pacific Flow Control can perform all your hydrant needs. We do “A” services, “B” services, hydrant painting, hydrant repair, hydrant maintenance, spring and fall hydrant services, flow testing, and everything hydrant. We also provide you with the best digital hydrant reporting in the industry. Your hydrant reports come with digital expandable photos and detailed information on the inspection and services

Hot Tapping PVC Pipe

Hot Tapping into Critical PVC Infrastructure

Do you need to tie in or isolate your critical PVC water and sewer infrastructure without shutdown? Pacific Flow Control has specialty PVC cutters, pilots, adapters and tapping machines to safely perform this operation. We follow all of Uni-Bell’s industry best practices. We even teach courses on PVC hot tapping safety. If you need hot taps, line stops, valve inserts

Line Stop for Single Valve Isolation

Double Block & Bleed and Single Valve Isolations with Line Stops

Do you need a double block & bleed or single valve isolations because you have downstream confined space work? Our line stopping, valve insertion and nitrogen line freezing technologies can be used as a secondary block, set up in a double block and bleed arrangement or engineered as single valve isolations. The photo shown is a 230PSI 42″ (1050mm) single

Nitrogen Pipe Freezing

Freezing Glycol Lines to Prevent Drain Down and Storage

Liquid Nitrogen boils at -320 Deg. F (-196 Deg. C). With the use of our freeze jackets and liquid Nitrogen, you can create ice plugs. These ice plugs are designed to 1000PSI and can be used to prevent the drain down of your system. Imagine never needing to drain down and store glycol or many other liquids. There is no

Line Stopping High-Pressure Water Line – 230PSI Operating Pressure & 350 PSI Design.

Do you have no valves or no working valves in your high-pressure zones? Do you need a double block & bleed or single valve isolation? You have lots of options. Line stopping, valve insertion and nitrogen line freezing are some of them. All three of these technologies allow you to work on your infrastructure without shut down or system interruption.

Pacific Flow Control Ltd completed wet taps for mechanical, industrial and municipal contractors.

SMALL DIAMETER MECHANICAL HOT TAPS

Never chase air or store glycol again. Did you know that we perform hot taps, line stops, and nitrogen line freezes for the mechanical, industrial and municipal industries? Please take a look at some of the small-diameter hot taps we have performed for mechanical contractors and plumbers over the last few months. We can wet or dry tap flanged or

36" & 42" Line Stop on Steel & HDPE

PREPARING for 36IN & 42IN DOUBLE LINE STOP on STEEL and HDPE PIPE

Our Vancouver Island crews were in Nanaimo all week getting ready for Line Stops on 36″ Carbon Steel and 42″ HDPE sanitary sewer mains. This work will be completed with the use of folding line stop heads that will enter the sewer main through 24″ hot taps off the top of the pipe. 2EA 16″ bypass hot taps are also

Nitrogen Pipe Freezing

Pipe Freezing & Ice Plugs – Small Diameter

Typically what we post on social medial is the large diameter or technically demanding pipe freezes. However, most days are spent performing small diameter pipe freezes (ice plugs) using liquid nitrogen freezing technologies. Whether small or large, we perform all of this work “hands-free” using high-pressure nitrogen tanks. After the sleeves are installed, and the hoses are run, there is