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Pacific Flow Control: Experts in Live Waterline Realignment

Introduction Are you facing the challenge of relocating your infrastructure and performing water, sewer or gas realignment for an infrastructure project? Look no further than the Pacific Flow Control Team. With a proven track record of expertise in hot tapping and valve insertion, we’re here to ensure your project’s success.  We are happy to share our recent accomplishment in Northern BC, where

Fire Hydrant Maintenance and Repairs - Vancouver

The Essential Guide to Fire Hydrant Servicing, Maintenance, and Repair: Safeguarding Communities with Pacific Flow Control Ltd

Welcome to Pacific Flow Control Ltd, your trusted fire hydrant service, repair, and maintenance contractor in Western Canada. This comprehensive guide highlights the significance of proper fire hydrant servicing, maintenance, and repair. Discover how our expert team, with locations in Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island, the BC Interior, Calgary, and throughout Alberta, ensures fire safety by safeguarding the functionality of fire

36x24 "No-Valve" Hot Tap

Who Needs a Valve to Hot Tap?

Pacific Flow Control crews completed a 36×24 “No-Valve” hot tap on a carbon steel sewer main in Delta, BC. After completing the hot tap, a 24″ plug valve was installed downstream. If you need a live wet-tapped connection but would like to use a plug valve, butterfly valve, or no valve at all. Pacific Flow Control has the expertise. Hot

Dry Tapping

Dry Tapping = Short Lead Times and Economic Pipe Fittings

With much shorter lead times (3-4 weeks) and a more affordable price tag. You can dry tap in fittings with standard and engineered hot tapping sleeves. Hot tap sleeves are available in tangental, angled, or standard 90-degree orientation. With design pressures up to 350 PSI, these hot tap sleeves are available in epoxy coated carbon steel, 304SST or 316SST and

Mission BC Linestop

Line Stopping Options

Line stopping is one of the many services we offer, and it can be completed on a wide range of pipe diameters and pipe types including ductile, AC, Concrete Cylinder, Steel, C900 and HDPE. Some of the many benefits of line plugging include little to no disruption of service, which itself has multiple benefits to the surrounding community. There are

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

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