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
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, … 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
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 … Read More
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. … Read More
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 … 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
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 … Read More
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 … Read More