Pacific Flow Control crews finished a 30×8 AWWA C301L Hot Tap in the beautiful Okanogan. You know who to call if you need to wet tap your aging C301 or C303 concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP). We have 24-hour service available at our Nanaimo (Vancouver Island), Kelowna (Interior BC), Langley (Metro Vancouver) and Calgary (Alberta/Saskatchewan). Let Pacific Flow Control take care … Read More
Hot Tapping & Line Stopping 36″ (900MM) AC Pipe
Hot Tapping & Line Stopping 36″ (900MM) AC PipeYou don’t often see 36″ (900mm) Asbestos Cement water main, but Medicine Hat, Alberta, has some. The safest, easiest and most cost-effective way to make a new connection to an existing AC water main is with a hot tap. Hot tapping (wet tapping) is a fully self-contained and water-submerged method of making … Read More
Pacific Flow Control Acquires Alta-West Hydrant & Hottapping
After 30+ years of working together and collaborating, Pacific Flow Control has acquired Alta-West Hydrant and Hottapping Services.Pacific Flow Control will offer existing Alta-West clients the same hot tapping, valve insertion, hydrant maintenance and repair services they are used to.Pacific Flow Control also offers engineered and large diameter hot taps, line stops, nitrogen line freezing and machine valve exercising.Our proprietary … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
“No-Valve” Hot Taps – Hot Tapping for Plug, Butterfly, or No Valve at All
Hot tapping without a valve. Who knew? Check out the 16×16 “no-valve” hot tap we did for the City of Kelowna on a DR41 PVC force main a few weeks ago to install their new downstream plug valve. Give me a shout if you’re interested, and I’ll send you the complete schematic with example shop drawings.
24″ Reinforced Concrete Wall Hot Taps
Take a look at this 24″ Ø (600mm) x 14″ (350mm) thick hot tap on the concrete wall of a pressure chamber at Metro Vancouver’s Langley WWTP. Many people don’t realize that you can hot tap reinforced concrete walls and tanks; however, Pacific Flow Control sure can.