To incorporate pipes into the walls in very confined spaces of New York City high-rises, PAR Plumbing uses a variety of HOLDRITE® support systems. HOLDRITE products make for a simpler installation while also saving PAR time, as demonstrated by two recent projects.
Support Systems Get the Job Done
When PAR was contracted to provide all of the plumbing for Riverside K, a 32-story luxury condominium on Manhattan’s West Side, they knew that space inside the walls would be tight. Installing the drain, waste and vent piping, and domestic water piping in the available space would be a challenge.
HOLDRITE support systems were the answer. “Without HOLDRITE’s pipe support systems we would have had to create custom metal supports,” explained Brendan McMonagle, PAR Plumbing’s vice president of new construction. “It would have taken hours to cut and fabricate metal pieces in the field to equal what came out of the HOLDRITE box. HOLDRITE’s pipe support systems got the job done in much less space than field-cut metal. So construction went faster, and we were able to easily solve the problem of tight space within the building’s walls.”
Time-Saving and Secure Solutions
PAR Plumbing was also selected as the plumbing contractor for an extensive retrofit project, the conversion of the top 20 floors of a building located across the street from the World Trade Center from commercial space to high-end condominiums. A major telecom company has all of its digital equipment systems installed on the ninth floor and wanted to be absolutely certain that the pipes PAR installed on the 10th floor would not come apart, flood the building, and put the systems out of commission.
As with the Riverside K condominiums, space inside the walls where the pipes were being installed was extremely tight. To address both the space constraints and the telecom company’s concerns about potential flooding, PAR once again turned to HOLDRITE products, using the HOLDRITE #117 Series No-hub Fitting Restraints. These mechanisms are ideal for restraining hubless cast iron soil pipe joints against separation during high thrust conditions. They are engineered to meet plumbing codes and pipe manufacturers’ installation instructions.
“HOLDRITE’s pipe support systems got the job done in much less space than field-cut metal. So construction went faster, and we were able to easily solve the problem of tight space within the building’s walls.”
—Brendan McMonagle,
Vice President of New Construction,
PAR Plumbing
For this project, #117 No-hub Fitting Restraints were attached to the base stack sittings of the sanitary and storm lines. Because PAR installed hundreds of restraints on one floor alone, the product was a significant time-saver when compared with the field-devised alternative of cutting individual threaded-rod pipe clamps, custom cutting all the pieces, and assembling each one with miscellaneous hardware.
“The HOLDRITE No-hub Fitting Restraints installed very quickly in the tight ceiling space we were working in,” noted McMonagle. “They saved us a tremendous amount of installed costs. It was just a matter of pulling the restraint out of the box, putting it together with a ratchet gun, and you were done in just a few minutes for each installation. This was the first time we used these engineered restraints in such a mass quantity, and it was a big help for us. It drastically cut our installed costs while giving us the same security of not worrying about the plumbing joints coming apart and flooding the building.”
“HOLDRITE is the standard for us now,” McMonagle added. “We use their products in all of our jobs.”
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