Reposted from Viega. Click here for original article.
Pressing pipe will help meet that demand and make it easier to compensate for months of slow business. Pressing is simply faster than traditional methods of joining pipe, like threading and soldering. It saves hours, days and even weeks of labor on larger projects, freeing up contractors to move onto the next job or work on multiple jobs simultaneously.
You don’t have to take our word for it. Listen to contractors who use Viega fittings:
“We figure that using Viega saved us at least two weeks, being able to just cut the pipe and press. It looks very professional. I had more than 500 joints on a project and there was not a single issue with any of them.” — Bryce Mannek, President, Blue Line Plumbing, Utah
“An average socket-weld fitting is about an hour and a half per fitting, where with MegaPress, you’ve got less than 10 minutes total for one fitting. Multiply that by 8,000 or 10,000 fittings … it’s a tremendous labor and time savings.” — William Mann, Pipe Fitting Supervisor, St. Johns Ship Building, Florida
In addition to time, pressing requires less labor. Threading usually means only a single installer can make connections at a time. Typically, a second worker is tied up running the threader, making cuts and delivering pieces to the installer. Pressing connections requires only one worker, freeing up others to make connections or perform other jobs.
And because pressing is an easily acquired skill that doesn’t require as much training as welding, soldering, threading or brazing, contractors will find it easier to staff jobs.
Coming out of shutdown, contractors need to give themselves every advantage to compete. Pressing is an easy edge.
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