Pressing Tool - Advice Needed.

[Steve @ TheHeatingHub]

Evening lads, I was wondering how much knowledge and experince you guys have with working with various pressing tools. The reason I ask is that I have been asked to do a costing for buying one out right and work out potential savings of having this in our arsenal of tools 🙂

It currently stands that a 110v ridgid press tool with all heads from 1/2" up to 3" (15-72mm i belive) would cost around 8.5k with the vat thats around 2k more than the threading tool cost.

I know that there is time saving to be made but not sure how much, I would like to think it is twice as fast as threading.

My questions are:

1) What are the best value fittings to buy Mapress or Express(heard horror stories about express)

2) Best Vendors ? (would like to find better terms than we have at bss and pipe centre)

3) Anyone recently switched over to pressing from iron and have some info ~?


thanks in advance

 

[PlumbersMate]

Evening lads, I was wondering how much knowledge and experince you guys have with working with various pressing tools. The reason I ask is that I have been asked to do a costing for buying one out right and work out potential savings of having this in our arsenal of tools 🙂

It currently stands that a 110v ridgid press tool with all heads from 1/2" up to 3" (15-72mm i belive) would cost around 8.5k with the vat thats around 2k more than the threading tool cost.

I know that there is time saving to be made but not sure how much, I would like to think it is twice as fast as threading.

My questions are:

1) What are the best value fittings to buy Mapress or Express(heard horror stories about express)

2) Best Vendors ? (would like to find better terms than we have at bss and pipe centre)

3) Anyone recently switched over to pressing from iron and have some info ~?


thanks in advance

Uponor are really good have used on 3 different sites

 

[Danny25]

Hi sage, we bought our REMS pressed about 2 years ago with heads from 1/2 to 2". Use it nearly every day, bit we did blow it up about 3 months after using it but was replaced next day. It's the rechargeable battery type, think it cost around the £2k mark. We use the geberit fittings as they are the cheapest and pretty decent quality. Get the fittings from pipe centre and bss. a lot easier than threading!!

 

[hammers4spanner]

get a 110v one for about a grand think thats a rems if i recall, rigid is normally dearer

mapress are usually on the shelf fittings unless they are the bigger size

imho iron is tried and tested

 

[Steve @ TheHeatingHub]

thanks for the input, I am reluctant to move away from iron as I knjow it will stand the test of time the downside is it takes so long, and atm we have a lots of work and dont want to take another fitter on (not even a subby) the press tool might be the answer to our (happy) problem 🙂

But fo large plan rooms im just not sold on the pressing idea just yet 🙂 as always it comes down to numbers 🙂

@ Danny
How do you find the REMS tool ? Geberit are the cheapest fittings ? I thought the xpress stuff was?

thanks again all 🙂

EDIT: will check out uponor also 🙂

 

[Danny25]

I don't have many problems with it at all, the one thing that can be a pain is getting the REMS tool into small spaces but if you do a lot of iron you you will know that if preform some fittings it's easier that way. Xpress fittings I haven't used too much we had one that didn't clamp properly so haven't used them since, but geberit good quality at a fairly decent price.

 

[missplumb]

we use the x-press fittings and not had any problems with them, BSS were selling the full REMS kit, 2 batteries, 15mm - 2" heads all for £1400. We do alot of plantrooms and find the press kit much quicker, cleaner and easier than using steel. If you dont want to use copper then you can use Carbon Steel!!

 

[Chalked]

Haven't you got to be carefull with inhibitors using the steel press fit pipe?

 

[Scott_D]

Hire the kit for a week to try it out.
BSS hire it gear is good. If you want to install it quickly then you will also need a good cutting machine. The Rems cento is great.

 

[Killy Bing]

Having spent abit of day doing threading i wish i could have used pressfit.
im domestic and it was my second time doing it.

i'll give pressfit a bash soon as i get a chance now!

 

[Linkyplumb]

Have used the mapress and express fittings, with good results. That was using a rems press.

I would still prefer iron, as it saves me time later on in the day, as I don not need to go to the gym, after doing a day of threading lol

 

[Steve @ TheHeatingHub]

thanks for all the feedback have the account manager of BSS coming in to see me tomorrow so I'll be sure to see what pressing tool/deals is avaible 🙂