Are there any advantages to using pipe-freezing technology? - Know why everyone is looking forward to this technology

Whenever we encounter pipeline issues at a commercial or residential building, the group is divided into two parts – one supports the drainage system while the other calls for pipe freezing services.

The question persists and a part of the long debate to find the most efficient and cost-saving treatment for the pipeline issues.

Undoubtedly, the winner is the pipe-freezing technique, but you must have been wondering to know the reason behind it.

Here in this article, we will talk about 3 advantages of Pipe freezing in brief and for any additional queries, you can always get in touch with the M&E Contractors.

To help you understand, let’s imaging that a tall building, let’s say 15-story high and pipeline has broken or suddenly stopped working and now in need of immediate servicing.

Advantage 1: Time- saving procedure

When you have to treat the pipeline, a complete system shutdown is necessary, unless you are using the pipe-freezing technology over the draining system. No, we are not saying that the draining system won’t work, but it may take as long as 14 hours.

Let’s break down these 14 hours in the following:


  • Draining the pipe – 4 hours
  • Install new valves – 1 hour
  • Flush the system – 4 hours
  • System refill – 2 hours
  • Purge all the air out – 2 hours
  • Replacing corrosion chemicals – 1 hour

This 14-hour timeline is the least amount of time you will require to complete the entire project, so it can easily go up.

But if you choose the pipe-freezing method, you can easily save as much as 12 hours of your precious time and inconvenience.

How?

Well, a 1-inch long pipe would freeze in minutes, and then it will take just around 2 hours to replace the valve and defrost.

Advantage 2: Environment sustainability

If you drain your pipe, it’s not just the extra 12 hours that you should be worried about, but the entire the fluid will be dumped into the city sewers.

Now, you may know this or not, but these pipes are filled with toxic anti-corrosion chemicals that can severely harm the environment.

So, if you choose drainage and not pipe freezing, you would dump as much as 2000-3000 liters of toxic fluid in the sewers. Now, you may have done it unknowingly and unwillingly, but in several states, you may have to pay a penalty of thousands of dollars.

If you choose to pipe freezing, it creates an ice plug that traps the toxic chemicals or prevents them to be drained into the sewers.  

Advantage 3: Cost-effective procedure

Apart from these two advantages, pipe freezing is way more cost-effective than you can think.

If we are talking about a The 15-story building, it may cost around S$1500 that includes S$900 for the plumbing contractor and S$600 for the pipe freezers.

Though the cost may go up or down depending on the condition of the pipeline, it is much lower than the draining system.

For the same condition, if you choose to go with the draining system, it will cost as per the following:

 

  • Plumbing contractor for draining – S$3400
  • Power flush – S$1600
  • New inhibitor – S$4300
  • Potential callbacks – S$1000

So, if you look closely, there is a huge price difference as pipe-freezing would save as much as S$8800, which is around 6 times less money than a draining system.

Pipe freezing is the most reliable method to service or maintain the damaged pipelines. Apart from money and environment-friendliness, pipe freezing is much faster and more efficient from all aspects.  

Location: Singapore

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