Australian Hot Taps
Plumbing Services in Maroondah

Australian Warm Taps has clients in all states and territories of Australia as well as the pacific Islands, we regularly fly in and out serving our clients. This means we are capable to yield a valve teed into the existing operating pipe line without shutting, draining or stopping the flow in the pipeline.

Warm tapping uses less water and less electricity than other methods. Warm Tapping is one crucial way we aid the environment every single time we perform a tapping whether it be at a mufti deposit building, a wing of a hospital, a shopping center, university, school, airport or mine site. Warm taping does not waste drinking water, uses less chemicals, and uses less electricity. Australian Hot Taps has clients in all states and territories of Australia as well as the pacific Islands, we regularly fly in and out serving our clients. This means we are capable to bear a valve teed into the existing operating pipe line without shutting, draining or stopping the flow in the pipeline. We generally yield a turnkey solution that is we attend site, weld or bolt a saddle to the pipe, install a plugged permanent valve for our clients use. This all completed without shutdown, draining, purging or isolation. Australian Hot Taps innovative solutions include live thermowells, thermometer pockets, probes and flow meter installations in not only Steel lines but also in Copper and many other pipelines. The way the AZ 2 systems has obsoleted traditional stopping ardor empty downs in the water market, we see as the coming for regaining handle of all under pressure operating systems. Live Valve Insertion on operating pipelines is exciting and a immense advance on having to either fully unload down or do (2) line stops and then drain down, or freeze lines, then cut in a fresh line valve. Australian Hot Taps give our clients Commercial and Industrial gas line sizing, Specialist gas reticulation tall pressure, overhead and under ground, Off site steel fabrications, CDT of pipe wall thicknesses. Australian Hot Taps are experts at pressure testing gas lines at tall or low pressure, we have all the equipment including the latest digital manometers, twenty-four (24) hour chart recorders, Washington Type leak detectors, bourbon gauges and electronic leak detectors. As well as the equipment we have the experience of pressurizing the line with nitrogen ensuring the test is on for the right length of time then either signing off on the line or advising our client of a leak that they may wish us to or themselves to locate. Quite often we manufacture a custom designed product to seal the leak, so whether the leak is on an elbow, tee, flange or straight portion of pipe there is a solution that can be employed lower pressure. Clamps for many pipes are held in stock so an immediate response is often available. There are times when other methods of stopping the flow are not plausible or cost effective sometimes the solution is to squash off. Pipe frigid is a non intrusive, cost effective and speedy method to perform pipeline maintenance and modifications without the need to empty down the system. Pipe frigid offers big benefits and savings versus draining and allowing air in the system. We can do below pressure live gas diversions on maximum gas pipelines. With our expertise in live tapping’s, squash offs and purging. We take protection of it from begin to complete without any interruption to the gas services. Warm tapping, or pressure tapping, is the method of making a connection to existing piping or vessels without the interruption or emptying that section of pipe or vessel. Hot tapping is also the first procedure in line stopping, where a hole saw is worn to make an opening in the pipe, so a line plugging head can be inserted. Warm tapping can be performed on pipes carrying automatic gas, water, sewage, steam, petroleum products, and chemicals, and on maximum types of pipe.