10x8 Wet Taps Completed in Farmington

Tying into a live water main is one of those jobs where there's no room for error. The line is pressurized, the schedule is tight, and the whole point is to make the connection without interrupting service. That's exactly what wet tapping - or hot tapping - is designed to do.

We completed a 10x8 wet tap in Farmington, and this is the kind of work that keeps a job site moving. Instead of shutting down service to make a connection, wet tapping lets us cut into a live pressurized main and tie in the new line - all without a single drop in service pressure downstream. For large-diameter work like this, that's a big deal.

The setup you're looking at here reflects what it actually takes to do this right. The tapping valve is bolted directly to the saddle on the main, the boring machine is locked in, and the whole assembly is dialed in before we ever start cutting. There's no guessing. Everything is torqued, seated, and verified before the cut is made.

A 10x8 connection isn't small. It takes the right equipment rated for that diameter and pressure range, plus the experience to know how to handle what comes next once the cutter breaks through. We've done enough of these to know where things can go sideways - and how to make sure they don't.

Wet taps are one of our core service offerings, and we bring the same level of preparation to every size connection we make. Whether it's a smaller residential tie-in or a large-diameter main like this one, the standard doesn't change.