100mm steel piping

[r.bartlett]

Guy's

I have to rough out a quick quote for cutting a 100mm flow and return from a buffer tank, rotating the 2x elbows 90 degs 180 to point to the outside (currently chest height) 1m out through the wall 1.5m down and on to a new chiller, which will be planted on the floor.

Roughly 5m for the flow and 8m for the return with maybe 4 x 90's and a couple of shut off valves.

As I am very late to the game I just need to give a ball park figure.

Totally not my game so it will be subbed..

Any help advice or a rub of thumb on a 'per metre' basis would be great

Cheers

Richard

 

[Norcon]

Cannot give you indication of overall cost other than I would be fairly confident that this would involve about 2 days work.
2 experienced fitters the first day . The second day 1 needed to insulate the pipework. A very high standard of workmanship is needed here if its a low temperature system. (ie. - 20c)
ABS would be the preferred material as opposed to steel piping.
Much faster and no hot works permits needed where welding is involved.

 

[r.bartlett]

Norcon,

Many thanks for the reply. I shall budget £1k for the labour and £1k for the materials

Cheers

Richard

 

[Onetap]

Norcon,

Many thanks for the reply. I shall budget £1k for the labour and £1k for the materials

Cheers

Richard

You might get the job and might wish you hadn't. Conservative IMHO, but I didn't originally comment because I'd need an estimating guide to hazard a guess at a price and I'm not doing free work.

I'd suggest you pay particular attention to the requirements for insulation (dense phenolic foam inserts, mineral fibre or phenolic foam pipe insulation sections, continuous vapour barrier, sealed ali or foam valve & flange insulation boxes, etc. You'll need a specialist contractor.

Oh, and since it's now outside you may find trace heating is specified (another specialist job) or ethylene or propylene (£s) glycol.
Never take a punt on something you don't understand.
I'm sure you know what you're doing. Good luck.

 

[r.bartlett]

Job got cancelled

Cheers

Richard

 

[doitall]

Job got cancelled

Cheers

Richard

Ain't you the lucky one

At least you haven't lost money which you would have if the job had gone ahead.

 

[r.bartlett]

Job got cancelled

Cheers

Richard

Ain't you the lucky one

At least you haven't lost money which you would have if the job had gone ahead.

I had had a full proper quote from a M&E company who were going to do the piping for <3k
I had allowed 5k for that + glycol and with the sale of the new chiller , Sadly any 'loss' was wide of the mark as I had all costs covered and I was 'in' for about 15k..

The annoying thing was that based on my input -re the failure of the old chiller- the manufacturer had changed his 'no fault' attitude and coughed up the repair...Hence the cancellation

Still, it proves my diagnosis was correct and although my family won't eat this winter at least they know dad was right (in this case

Cheers

Richard

 

[doitall]

My comment was based on your original post saying 2k for labor and materials, which was miles out.

 

[r.bartlett]

My comment was based on your original post saying 2k for labor and materials, which was miles out.

No worries but it was with advice here that I kept adding K's

Cheers

Richard

 

[Norcon]

Pricing the materials on the information given comes to £1074 using my out of date pipe center price guide.
Thats using Durapipe ABS though which is 60% more expensive than seamless steel tubing.
Most companies pricing this though would include any electrical installation and re- commissioning costs also.