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Hot Tapping Stainless Steel Pipe

Hot Tapping Stainless Steel Pipe

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

20x12 C303 PCCP Hot Tap

Hot Tapping a 20×12 Connection on AWWA C303 Concrete Pressure Pipe

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

Team Valve Insert

New 10″ & 12″ Ductile Iron Valves with No Shut-Down

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

20" Line Stop of 304SST Process Water Main

Emergency Line Stop on 20″ SST Process Water Pipe

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

18x12 HDPE Electofusion Hot Tap

18×12 Electro Fusion HDPE Hot Tap on Sewer

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

Double 8″ Nitrogen Line Freeze in South Surrey

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

Wachs Valve Exerciser

Valve Exerciser Fully Rebuilt and Ready to Roll

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 at MCAAB Event

MCAAB Member Appreciation BBQ

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.

Hydrant Painting - Nanaimo

Pacific Flow Control Awarded Nanaimo 2021 Hydrant Contract

Pacific Flow Control is super excited to get awarded the Nanaimo 2021 hydrant maintenance contract. The boys are into their second week of painting now. PFC will be completing 3000+ Hydrant A & B services along with hydrant painting. We look forward to working with the great team of managers and operators at the City of Nanaimo. Let us know

PVC Hot Tap - Rocky View, AB

3 Year Anniversary Pacific Flow Control & ML Hot Taps

Mike “The Greek” (ML Hot Taps) called this morning congratulating us on our 3rd anniversary. Crazy that it has already been three (3) years since we opened a brick-and-mortar office here in Calgary, AB. Above is a photo of Duke doing a 10×6 PVC wet tap with our electric drive hot tapping machine. Duke is the employee we have had