Product Spotlight

Lochinvar, an industry leader in high-efficiency boilers and water heaters, recently announced the introduction of the Reverse Indirect Water Heater to its continually expanding family of best-in-class water heating solutions. This unit is currently available in a 125-gallon capacity for a variety of applications, both residential and commercial.

“For decades, Lochinvar has been dedicated to not only cutting-edge product innovation, but also superior durability and flexibility, offering long-lasting, quality systems for a variety of applications,” said Jeff Vallett II, segment market manager for Lochinvar. “The top performance and dependability offered by the Reverse Indirect Water Heater is an excellent example of the Lochinvar experience our customers have come to expect, and should expect for years to come.”

Providing up to 30 GPM of continuous hot water delivery, the Reverse Indirect Water Heater is designed perfectly for multi-family, commercial and large residential water heating applications using a hydronic system. The generous hot water supply allows for an extremely dependable hot water source. The Reverse Indirect Water Heater is available in ASME and Non-ASME construction, providing superior flexibility to fit most any job.

As with Lochinvar’s continued commitment to quality, the Reverse Indirect Water Heater comes standard with a 10-year limited warranty. It also features a 316L stainless-steel coil, a jacketed and insulated steel tank, and 2” HCFC foam insulation.

To learn more, visit www.Lochinvar.com.

The Cold-Shot^® Pipe Freezing Kit from General Pipe Cleaners lets you repair an operating water system – without draining lines, sprinkler arrays, or hot water systems before cutting pipe or tubing.

Using Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) in dip-tube cylinders, the Cold-Shot freezes liquids in steel, copper, cast iron, aluminum, or plastic pipes – 1/8” through 2” in diameter – in minutes.

Safe and easy to use, simply place the freeze head around the pipe, attach the hose, and open the CO₂ cylinder valve. Liquid CO₂ flows into the Cold-Shot freeze head, forming an ice pack in the line capable of withstanding 7000 psi.

Faster, more compact, and less expensive than “refrigerator-type” units, the Cold-Shot can create an ice plug in copper tubing within five minutes – and in steel pipe within three minutes. And unlike slower, less economic “bag-type” devices, General’s lightweight device provides a much better seal – and distributes CO₂ evenly around the pipe.

The Cold-Shot kit includes 10 sets of freeze heads, two high pressure spiral hoses with grips and injectors, T-distributor, locking nut, hex head screw driver, rubber gloves, goggles, and carrying case.

See Cold Shot in action at www.drainbrain.com/coldshot. For more information, contact the Drain Brains^® at General Pipe Cleaners at 800-245-6200 or 412-771-6300.

Resource-rich website offers intelligent, user-centric product selector tool, allowing installers to customize QuickDrain shower-drain products to their particular specifications

QuickDrain USA has unveiled a new and completely reimagined website, quickdrain.com, designed to offer the ultimate user-friendly experience to design professionals and their clients. Providing intuitive design, improved navigation and functionality, the new website allows visitors to immerse themselves in the full QuickDrain portfolio and to customize those products through a new and innovative product selector tool.

The new website affirms QuickDrain’s brand promise; an elegant blend of design, versatility, and functionality. With high-quality, visually appealing, in-use imagery and clear calls to action, the website delivers to designers, architects, installers, and showroom consultants not only a service, but also an experience, offering an abundance of bath-design inspiration, helpful tools and resources.

The site incorporates the following enhancements:

• Product Selector Tool: The new selector tool (located under the Products tab in the navigation menu) allows installers to customize QuickDrain products to meet the needs of their particular application. Designers and their clientele can now configure a QuickDrain shower solution themselves by responding to a series of questions: Curb or curbless? Linear or center point drain? The selector tool also requests details on drain placement, outlet orientation and enclosure dimensions, while offering customers a visual interface where they can change various attributes (drain cover finish, material, parts, etc.). The payoff is a fully customized PDF-outline of the QuickDrain system designed to their specifications.
• Where to Buy: Quotes and information on where to purchase QuickDrain products are now easily requested through an online form that speeds and streamlines the process. Once the form has been submitted, a member of the QuickDrain Customer Champion Team will contact the customer to walk them through the purchasing and installation process.

“Our primary goal during the redesign process was to create a more valuable, user-centric, and responsive resource for QuickDrain customers,” says Chris Oatey, General Manager of QuickDrain USA. “Specifically, we wanted to focus on delivering our brand’s promise of luxury, while making it easier for users to learn and locate valuable information about our linear and SquareDrain solutions for their particular application or building type.”

The new website features five key navigation channels: Products, Markets, and Installation, plus Education and Training. Besides accessing product and application information, including case studies, visitors can use these channels to access technical documents (submittals, BIM Revit, Code Approvals, etc.) and explore how-to videos and online training opportunities.

The new site at https://www.quickdrain.com/ can be fully accessed through all the major browsers, especially the latest versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.

ABOUT QUICKDRAIN USA AND OATEY CO.

Part of the Oatey family of brands, QuickDrain USA is a premier manufacturer of curbless and curbed shower solutions for showers and wet areas. Balancing elegant design with exceptional performance and universal design, QuickDrain’s shower solutions offer best-in-class accessibility, flexibility and ease of installation, making them the ideal choice for healthcare, hospitality and residential renovations and new builds alike. For more information, visit www.quickdrain.com or follow QuickDrain on Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram.

Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network to supply thousands of products for professional builders, contractors, engineers and do-it-yourself consumers around the world.

Oatey is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and has locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. For more information, visit www.oatey.com, call (800) 321-9532 or follow Oatey on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.

REMS Akku-Amigo 22 V is the powerful, handy, and innovative power tool for fast, precise, and effortless thread cutting. It is a 100% German quality power tool manufactured in our world class factory at REMS headquarters inWaiblingen, Germany.

Supplied with a unique support bracket that acts as a vice, the REMS Akku-Amigo 22 V can be used anywhere, even on already installed pipes.  For ⅛–1″ pipe threads and ¼–1″ bolt threads.

REMS Li-Ion 22 V technology with 9.0Ah capacity sets standards in terms of economy and usability and enables cutting of approximately 50 ¾” threads on a single battery charge. The light 12.3 lb. drive unit including battery enables easy, effortless working everywhere. Ideal for repairs, renovations and building sites.

The tool is engineered with maintenance-free gearing and overload protection to prevent damage.

A high cutting speed combined the easy-to-use support bracket that absorbs all torque in both directions allows quick, almost effortless, precise thread cutting.

Quick-change die heads using proven technology, high-grade alloys, and precise machining of the die head and dies provide excellent start-cutting performance, easy threading, and extended die life.

Long, precise pipe guidance ensures perfect pipe centering. The chip evacuation holes are purposefully designed to enable good chip flow and clean threads.

Established quality and innovation since 1909 – REMS.