Rarely is there ever a need to bypass pump a sewer force main. With line stops and bypass hot taps, you can typically let the pumps already in the system complete the bypass pumping for you. Pacific Flow Control completed this 24″ double line stop on a C900 PVC sewer forcemain complete with 2EA 24×16 C900/FL bypass wet taps in
Do you have valves that don’t work in your system? What about sieved valves in a confined space 1300FT underground? Pacific Flow Control has the technology and safe work practices and procedures to fix your isolation issues. Last week we completed a 10″ and 6″ liquid nitrogen pipe freeze at this industrial mining facility in British Columbia. With two (2)
Would you like to access or tie in a branch connection to 304 or 316 stainless steel pipe without shutting down? Whether you need hot taps, line stops, or freezing, Pacific Flow Control has the experience you need. Take a look at these 8 – 8×2 304SST/IPT hot taps we completed in Maple Ridge, BC. If you can’t or if
Why shut down? Pacific Flow Control has been hot tapping Concrete Pressure Pipe (CPP) for over 40 years. Yesterday we completed a 20×12 AWWA C303 wet tap for the City of Calgary on a beautiful piece of bar-wrapped concrete pressure pipe. If you have PCCP (AWWA C301), RCCP (C303) or RCP pipe that you’d like to tap into, give us
Valve inserts are an excellent option for you when you need new inline valves on your water or sewer infrastructure but can’t shut down. Yesterday, we installed the 10,” and 12″ Valve Inserts shown in the featured photo in Medicine Hat, AB. Team Industries manufacture the ductile iron resilient wedge insert valves (gate valves). Engineered to 250PSI, these RWGV’s remove
No valve? No problem. In Northern BC, an industrial facility recently called Pacific Flow Control to line stop (isolate) a 20″ 304SST process water line for an emergency leak repair. PFC expedited the fabrication and freight of a JCM 440 stainless steel line stop fitting, hot tapped it and got the line isolated using a 1220 folding line stop. PFC
We are often asked if we can hot tap (wet tap) HDPE water and sewer mains. The answer is yes. HDPE pipe can be hot tapped through either an electrofusion fitting or a mechanical tapping sleeve. Pacific Flow Control is happy to perform either service for you turnkey. This photo is of an 18×12 HDPE/FL ElctroFusion hot tap we did
This is cool. Our line freezing specialist, Jeff, sent me this video today. It’s a double 8″ nitrogen line freeze in the basement of an aquatic facility in South Surrey, with the nitrogen plumbed in from the trucks in the parking lot. It’s the safest and most efficient way to do a line freeze with limited nitrogen handling. Nitrogen boils
One of Pacific Flow Control’s Vancouver Island Hot Tapping Technicians, Pierre, completed a total rebuild of our Wachs valve turner this year. We are just a few decals, new hoses and a software upgrade away from getting this thing back on the road. Great job, Pierre, it looks brand new. Let us know if you need any help with your
Pacific Flow Control has its tabletop display set up here at the MCAAB Membership Appreciation BBQ. Swing by, take a look at our mechanical hot tap, line stop, and nitrogen line freezing display, and remind me that I owe you a beer.
Pacific Flow Control Ltd provides modern flow control techniques for alteration, relocation, extension, addition, repair, replacement or abandonment of piping or vessels without shutdown or interruption to service to critical processes or customers.
