Electrofusion saddle fitting clamped onto a black HDPE water main in an open trench, orange fusion welding leads coiled on the sand beside it

HDPE Service Connections: Tapping Tee, Branch Saddle or Hot Tap — and the One That Fails Under Pressure

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A 250 mm PE100 main runs live under a service road, and the drawing calls for a 32 mm domestic service off it. The schedule says HDPE saddle clamp, which is where the job starts to go wrong, because the phrase covers three products with three different consequences. An electrofusion tapping tee carries its own cutter and

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