MegaPress

When meeting a crucial deadline, many contractors know that using Viega products will get the job done well and without worries of missing a deadline.

It’s why Moe Saavedra, General Manager of Devix Heating and Cooling in West Allis, Wisconsin, called on Viega ProPress and MegaPress fittings for a boiler repiping project. In September, when a 60-year-old large boiler at the Contessa Apartments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, quit working, a fix was needed – and fast.

“It was all natural gas, and it was an oversized unit, so we converted the one very large boiler into a staged multi-boiler system,” explained Saavedra. “They work in stages, depending on the outdoor ambient temperature.”

Saavedra said there was a 2 ½” carbon steel water main coming in from the building, but everything else was 2” copper tubing, so his crew used Viega transition fittings to connect 2 ½” carbon steel into 2” copper. Their vendor, Ferguson, helped gather all the parts needed quickly so they could get the work done.

“Viega made this job happen quickly, because typically we’d cut back and use a threaded fitting, but in this situation it was all welded pipe, so MegaPress was the best repair option for this. We’ve used Viega ProPress for about three years, but this was our first time to try MegaPress,” Saavedra said.

Devix Heating and Cooling uses ProPress for nearly all its water heater and boiler repairs and installations. Saavedra said the fittings are a big benefit to the company.

“A job that might take us six days can take us just two or three (with ProPress), which means that it cuts our labor in half. And that means we can pump out twice as much work! It’s a huge win,” he said.

Saavedra admitted that after being introduced to Viega initially, he still wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from the products, but after putting Viega press fittings to work on a job, he became a believer.

“Everyone loved it. The job was done super quick. It was just phenomenal,” he said.

One of Devix’s customers is a building management company in Milwaukee that owns 40 to 50 buildings. The company regularly calls on Devix to do maintenance, repairs and replacement work, such as the Contessa Apartments. Before switching to Viega, Saavedra said they did things “the old school way” via solder and flux. Their clients are seeing the return on investment they’re getting by way of Devix using Viega.

“They love that we can replace a boiler in a day. We’re not a big company, but is allows us to cut and press and we’re done,” he said. “The only reason we can pump out these things so fast is because of Viega.”

The economy in Utah is booming, and Blue Line Plumbing and Mechanical has a lot of jobs to stay on top of. Viega products are coming in quite handy to help speed things along.

Blue Line recently ran gas lines for an office complex with warehouses in American Fork, Utah, running MegaPressG lines to each of the 22 units. There is also a two-inch water main in ProPress, about 1,000 feet long with tees and ball valves, providing water to each unit. Using Viega products made it all possible.

“Basically, I first thought, ‘Wow, this looks so easy,’” Bryce Mannek, president of Blue Line, said. “Time is of the essence in Salt Lake City, and Marty Ellis from Viega had come out to do a demo. I borrowed a press gun from him and got the materials; and on a project in Herriman that I thought was going to take about a week, we did it in two days. It saved us a ton of time.”

The office complex owner estimated that there’s about a mile of one-inch pipe in the building, the first of three similar buildings in the same complex. Mannek said that besides saving time and money using Viega, one of his favorite things is the simple, clean look of the product.

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By June 2016, occupants of the Porsche Design Tower on the shoreline of Florida’s Sunny Isles Beach will experience the best view in the city with the best products in the industry surrounding them, and Viega is proud to be one of them. Not only does the tower hold Viega’s ProPress^® in ½” to 4″ copper for the domestic and potable water, Viega MegaPress^® in ½” to 2″ for chilled water and Viega MegaPressG in ½” to 2″ for gas, it has three elevators that will take owners and their car right into their home.

Olympia Plumbing Corporation, who worked closely with the general contractor for the tower, Coastal Construction, is one of the largest commercial plumbing companies in South Florida. Olympia has worked on many high-rise buildings, but the Porsche tower is one of the more notable projects on their resume. They have used Viega ProPress and Viega MegaPress on a variety of projects across the state and stand by the product.
“The Viega ProPress was excellent. We’ve been working well with it and there are no leaks,” Cesar Gamero, Superintendent at Olympia said. “I pressurized it at 200 pounds and we haven’t had any problems with it. You don’t have to come back to it. It’s a good product.”

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