SVI DRAINBLOCK BAGS™ are used to decommission a swimming pool at a school in New Barnet, London.

August 26, 2015

Steve Vick International (SVI) is a leading specialist and UK manufacturer of pipe sealant products and techniques. One notably established SVI product is the DRAINBLOCK BAG™. The system implemented allows a disused lateral to be sealed-off using expanding polyurethane resin foam, remotely if needed. Once cured the bag seals the lateral at the point where it joins the downstream drain or sewer....
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Steve Vick International exhibit at the 26th World Gas Conference in Paris

June 15, 2015

World Gas Conference is the largest and most respected conference in the international gas calendar. The conference runs every three years and attracts over 4,000 delegates from 100 countries. This year Steve Vick International recognised the conference as an opportunity to showcase the company’s latest technologies and developments. These included two new pipe cutters developed for use on...
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Steve Vick International receive the honour of ‘Company of the Year’

May 22, 2015

Steve Vick International (SVI) has received the honour of “Company of the Year” at the Gas Industry Awards 2015. Chairman Steve Vick commented “After 33 years of the company bearing my name serving the gas industry it was a very proud moment indeed to collect this award. My most sincere thanks go to all the staff for all their hard work in carrying out our move to new premises whilst...
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Steve Vick International wins Lions Lair Event

May 8, 2015

Sales and Marketing Manager Katie Higgins; Winner of the 2015 IGEM and P.I.G Lions Lair Event The joint London, Southern and Eastern section IGEM and PIG Showcase and Lions Lair event ran its 6th successful year in February 2015. The contestants this year represented Radius Systems, PSS Hire and Steve Vick International. Each competitor had a short time slot to showcase an innovative...
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SVI renew 40 Live Gas Risers in Glasgow

May 6, 2015

Steve Vick International’s Contract Service teams have renewed forty 1¼”, 2” and 4” live gas risers in multi storey buildings in the centre of Glasgow without the need to decommission the services whilst the work was in progress. Using their Live Gas Riser Transfer technique, SVI were able to save Scottish Gas Networks tens of thousands of pounds compared with carrying out the project...
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New pipe cutters reduce cutting time significantly

April 22, 2015

Steve Vick International has introduced two new pipe cutters to its range – one for cutting ‘windows’ and one for circumferential cuts; both developed for cutting ductile iron. Whilst the majority of the existing gas network in the UK is made up of cast iron pipes, there is a significant proportion constructed from ductile iron and steel. These mains pose a problem for utilities when...
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Dyno-rod Uses Drainblock Bag™ To Stop Leakage In Luxury Pool Complex

April 20, 2015

A leaking drain which was causing waste water to enter the basement pool complex of a luxury Kensington town house was successfully sealed off by Dyno-Rod using the DRAINBLOCK BAG™ technique developed by Steve Vick International. Dyno-Rod franchisee, Candid Services Ltd of Staines, Middlesex, were called in when the home owners found water on the floor around their underground swimming pool....
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Stockholm – Flow Stopping 24″ Main

A two kilometre section of the main, which was cast iron at one end and steel at the other, was to be abandoned. The team installed two double-skin FOAMBAGS™ at each end of the section. Once the expanding foam was cured, the main was vented and then purged using Steve Vick International’s new Mini Purge Ejector. It took just 45 minutes to purge the gas from the abandoned main. The team then...
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Sellafield, Cumbria

Steve Vick International has been working with Corus Process Engineering (CPE) to provide sealing solutions for redundant sludge and effluent lines at Sellafield. The latest project is to eliminate any potential fault scenarios on the plant and reduce operator dose uptake during implementation by avoiding the need to drain the effluent tank pipes of radioactive sludge before the sealing...
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Steve Vick Carries Out Pipe Sealing Operations At Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station

Steve Vick International Ltd was recently retained to carry out works at Chapelcross for the nuclear decommissioning company Magnox North. The works required Steve Vick International engineers to seal off a number of redundant manholes – 43 in total – each containing between two to six inlet and outlet pipes of varying sizes from 20mm to 12”. The deepest manhole was 1.5 metres and the...
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Ukaea, Harwell

The project involved filling a sump and 3-4 metres of redundant 4” clay pipe that contained residual contamination from historic operations. Following several visits to the site and specific workshop trials – and based on previous experience of similar jobs for UKAEA – Steve Vick International successfully completed the sealing off operation using the Foam Bag™ system, in half a...
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Winfrith Power Station

Procord, the company which manages the land and buildings at Winfrith Power Station, needed to safely seal off two 180mm (6”) underground pipes. These pipes connect pits that are, respectively, 43 metres and 28 metres apart. As the pipes run under a concrete road that would have been costly to dig up and reinstate, Procord decided against removing the pipes, preferring instead to completely...
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