Aladdin Products Testimonials

The Riverside Thames Project: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Avoiding disruption with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator

I have used EasyFit Isolation valves since about 2018 when I first discovered them in a trade magazine, I use them as my go to in situations I usually found myself in older buildings around London.

Typical situations being blocks of flats or commercial buildings where a stopcock cannot be located, or has seized / passing, or when a weeks’ notice must be issued in writing to all the occupiers and building management team, charges also tend to be an exorbitant to shut off the water supply or complete a drain down.

I do have a freezing machine but find the Easyfit faster and more reliable, subsequently avoiding the adrenalin rush you get when cutting into a pipe with an ice plug or snatching a pipe live.

Freezing is not possible on hot water pipes, and snatching 22mm or 28mm isn’t a safe option, with Easyfit you save time not having to lug a heavy freezing machine to the working location, especially difficult when parking quite a distance from the property, all the permit only areas, newer Low traffic areas and pedestrian zones also make transporting equipment very difficult.

Freezing equipment takes about fifteen minutes to set up and a further twenty to 30 minutes to get the pipes frozen enough to risk starting work.  An Easyfit will fit in your tool bag, as I have fitted many over the years, I can install the Easyfit isolator comfortably in minutes.

I have included pictures of a recent project in a block of flats in London along the Thames, the existing hot supply shut off valve had been butchered prior to my visit and the water needed to be shut off to change a set of bath taps.  Freezing was not an option as it was hot water, also the line was too close to the main feed to other flats and the building manager wanted a lengthy notice plus several hundred pounds to shut off and drain down.

I fitted a 22mm Easyfit Isolator, the installation took 10 minutes.

I would recommend Easyfit to all plumbers and engineers for its ease of use and ability to save you time, I price projects the same as pipe freezing, this makes commercial sense for me and the customer in the reduction of down time.

George Stavrou – Speedy Jet Plumbers

The Royal London Hospital: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Installation of the Da Vinci Machine Robot Arm Washer at the Royal London Hospital with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator

CSS Facilities was contracted to carry out the installation of the Da Vinci operating Robot arms washer within the CSSD Clean Room at the Royal London Hospital, part of the brief from Skanska was to minimise shut-down time of the whole department.

As with all working hospitals, when repair and maintenance work is necessary, it is vital that the department does not have to close or is only out of commission for as short a time as possible; this was particularly the case with this contract.

The project involved cutting in to, and branching off hot and cold feed pipes that could not be isolated as the nearest isolation point would have resulted in down time to the clean room facilities for sterilisation of hospital equipment. It was therefore essential that a product be sought that would allow the services to be closed off without shutting down water supplies to the clean room.

After searching the internet, we found Aladdin EasyFit Isolation Valves, the main benefit of using the Aladdin EasyFit isolators was to save time and that the work could be carried out without major planning around shut down times. Time savings were more important to the hospital and operations being carried; without using the EasyFit isolators, we would have needed to shut down the whole department. Shutting down a department like this, even for just a few hours, would have been very difficult to organise.

The Aladdin EasyFit Isolator is easy to use, it clamps directly onto live pressurised pipe (hot or cold), safely providing a full bore, permanent quarter turn isolation valve, with no need to restrict services, drain or freeze pipes.

Aladdin EasyFit is also WRAS approved as a stopcock, available for 15mm, 22mm and 28mm, ½, ¾ and 1” metric and imperial copper, 16-bar rated – suitable -20 to +85c and comes complete with a 10-year warranty.

Aladdin offering a ‘quick-fit’ isolation solution for pressurised pipe.

CSS Facilities’ Director, Ian Perton

Argos / DHL Distribution Centre: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Avoided a complete drain down with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator

In a busy operation like the Stafford based DHL/Argos distribution centre, where services are running 24/7, even a minor operation like changing a washbasin hot tap requires a complete drain down.

In this instance, the pipework was poorly installed over 20 years ago with poor quality pipe and a mixture of compression and soldered joints, however the biggest complaint was the sheer lack of isolation valves. In addition, the existing gate valves had failed after approximately 15 years.

After testing and falling in love with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator valves, we have been able to install suitable isolation in the key areas around the site easily.

The first isolator installed was in the busy workplace kitchen where the 15mm pipe feeding some equipment in the washup area had sprung a nasty leak, this was tricky as the kitchen was busy with Christmas lunches for over 600 colleagues. With no working isolation valves in place, coupled with a lack of space to reach the pipework adequately, we installed the Aladdin EasyFit isolation valve using the valve, tools provided and our 18v battery drill, within minutes we shut off the supply without having to drain down the system.

We’ve used many of the valves now and as long as you follow the instructions, they will perform as they should, and we look forward to using the 22mm & 28mm valves shortly.

Stuart Boyd – Arcus Facilities Management

Devonshire Place – London: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Avoiding excavation works with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator:

HVL Solutions were called to Devonshire Place London W1, on arrival they needed to isolate water supply to an apartment which had no control over their water supply.

Isolation was required to a 28mm copper line, with no isolation points available the only option was to excavate the footpath outside of the property, fortunately we have previously installed Aladdin EasyFit Isolation Valves, albeit on smaller sizes, 15 and 22mm.

HVL sourced a 28mm Aladdin EasyFit Isolation Valve, reattended site and installed the valve, in no time at all works were completed with little to no disruption, subsequently saving the client thousands of pounds by preventing the need to excavate.

By utilising this innovative technology, we prevented untold disruption completing works in minutes rather than days.

Jamie Vacher – HVL Solutions

Kier Group – Southwest Water: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Meter Installations with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator:

We are using the Aladdin valves where there is no internal or external stop tap, proving an invaluable tool in our arsenal in enabling customers to have a meter fitted where previously we would have had to feedback as “unable to meter”.

Wendy Coomber (Kier Group) – SWW Metering Manager

Bloomsbury Hotel London: Aladdin Products Testimonials

Completing much needed maintenance in a fully occupied hotel, whilst overcoming problematic seized gate valves with the Aladdin EasyFit Isolator:

“Great product, fitted Aladdin EasyFit isolation valves to working mains in a 150 room hotel, all rooms fully occupied, by installing EasyFit isolation valves this allowed works to be completed without having to vacate rooms”.

“The Bloomsbury Hotel is very happy that it’s revenue stream was not interrupted, guests weren’t aware we had completed works all during normal working hours, fantastic all round results”.

“We couldn’t pipe freeze due to noise, we also needed to isolate hot mains water which freezing can’t do, Aladdin EasyFit was the perfect solution, Aladdin EasyFit comes highly recommended to all hotel maintenance engineers”.

Phil Roffey, Managing Director, Capital Mechanical Services Ltd – Croydon