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ASSE 1060 Standard Specifications

In 1996, the American Society of Sanitary Engineering released a new standard - ASSE 1060 - to regulate the budding backflow enclosure industry.
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Aluminum Enclosures Aesthetics Guide

When we ask why new customers have previously chosen to install backflow preventers below ground or inside, the number one reason we hear is aesthetics. Architects, building owners, and everyone else involved in the decision is under the assumption that backflow enclosures have to be an eye-sore. Well, this new guide to enclosure aesthetics is here to change your mind.
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Backflow Enclosure Aesthetics Guide

Learn about our color options, landscaping, sizing, placement, and wraps in this guide to enclosure aesthetics.
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Designing and Specifying the optimal enclosure for industrial equipment

Theory to reality We all know that talking about something theoretically is different than actually discussing specifics. That's especially true of technical requirements. So if you'd like to take the theory of the design guide to the next step, we're happy to spend some time consulting with you to design the perfect enclosure around the specific details of your requirements.
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Engineer's Guide to Industrial Enclosure Design

Our guide is designed to help you quickly understand your enclosure options.
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Best Practices in Backflow Prevention & Protection Guide

Find out what municipalities, health officials and engineers are doing to keep water systems safe.
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How to Design and Buy a Pump Enclosure

This pump cover checklist will help you plan and ensure you get exactly what you need.
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How to Buy a Custom Industrial Enclosure

This checklist will walk you through all the steps for designing and buying a custom enclosure.
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Why Backflow Enclosures Are Safer Than Utility Vaults

It’s vital to keep backflow preventers protected and running efficiently to protect our potable water supply.
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Why Backflow Preventers Should Not Be Installed In Utility Vaults

Backflow prevention assemblies or devices prevent contamination of supply lines from cross-connections.
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Best Practices For Backflow Preventer Installation

We are going to take a closer look at cross-connection, what it is and why it’s important to prevent it.
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How To Get The Best Backflow Preventer Freeze Protection

Sometimes the effects of frozen backflow preventers are not known for months.
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What's Causing Changes To The Backflow Prevention Industry?

Here is why an RPZ backflow should never be installed inside a building and why this is changing the backflow prevention industry for good.
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How To Properly Size A Backflow Enclosure

If you’re trying to size a backflow enclosure for a waterworks project, you’re in the right place.
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400AL Backflow Enclosure - Roof Removal

In this video, we show you how easy it is to remove a roof from our 400AL backflow enclosure.
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The Easiest Way To Size A Backflow Enclosure

People often think that ordering a custom backflow enclosure is going to cost too much, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Why RPZ Backflow Preventers Should Be Installed Outside

This content was presented in January 2017 to the San Antonio chapter of the American Backflow Prevention Association.
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1000TLU880M-AL Backflow Enclosure

This enclosure is designed to provide freeze and vandal protection with the smallest visual field impairment.
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State Flower Of Florida

Let’s protect the RPZ valves protecting us with ASSE 1060 certified enclosures.
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This Is How To Disguise Your Backflow Enclosures With Landscaping

Learn how to easily disguise your backflow preventer.
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Watch What Happens When An RPZ Starts Discharging Water

Here's an in-depth explanation of how an RPZ backflow preventer works as opposed to a double check backflow preventer.
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300SN-AL Pump Enclosure

The SN and SNT series of enclosures are made to house 0.75” through 8” diameter backflow preventers.
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How It’s Made: Safe-T-Cover Pump Covers And Backflow Enclosure

This video is a behind-the-scenes look at the whole process of how our enclosures are made.
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Fitting For Piping Penetration - Pump Covers

Don't wrestle with cutting for piping penetration on the job site.
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Assembling A Safe-T-Cover Enclosure

Assembling a Safe-T-Cover backflow preventer enclosure is fast and simple.
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Why A Utility Vault Is The Worst Place For A Backflow Preventer

If you still think utility vaults are a good place for a backflow preventer—think again.
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What Happens When An RPZ Backflow Preventer Fails?

Why should RPZ backflow preventers be installed in a heated backflow enclosure instead of inside?
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How To Keep Your Aluminum Enclosures Out Of Sight

In this video, you’ll see how easy it is to hide a backflow enclosure with landscaping.
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What Are Backflow Prevention Devices Used For?

A backflow preventer is a device that is critical to keeping our drinking water safe.
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These Are The Best Backflow Prevention Practices Around

This video highlights some of the changes that have been made across the country to keep our water supply safe from contamination and cross-connection.
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2 Chains

Never chain your backflow preventers again. Protected and locked safely inside a Safe-T-Cover enclosure.

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Pressure Relief Valve

Safe-T-Cover enclosures are not just for backflow preventers. Here is a custom enclosure for a pressure relief valve station.

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Big Red

Custom enclosures are our specialty. Safe-T-Cover enclosures offer the widest and tallest enclosures in the industry.

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The Dual

Our -D suffix indicates sized for Dual installations (i.e., 400D-AL). If your application has redundant services, put them in a single, efficiently sized Dual enclosure.

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City Walk

Aesthetics are always a priority at Safe-T-Cover. Work with our design team on location, size, color and graphics to make your enclosure blend in or stand out.

City Walk

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Multi-Doors

Custom enclosures are our specialty. Multiple removable doors and panels can be installed to offer maximum access to your valves and pump systems.

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Muni Pumps

Custom enclosures are our specialty. While we recommend protecting your pumps as well, this application just enclosed the backflow and control valves.

Muni Pumps

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Stadium

Our enclosures are included in a lot of high profile areas, including NFL, MLB and NBA arenas.

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The Double

Some owners prefer to separate the irrigation lines and domestic backflow preventers into separate enclosures.

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Typical

Our backflow enclosures in the field. Get ideas for keeping your enclosures aesthetically pleasing and see some of the our most popular models.

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N-Pattern

N-pattern backflow preventers and their efficiently sized enclosures provide a much smaller footprint.

N-Pattern

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Landscape

Our enclosures can be augmented or hidden by professional landscaping.

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Control Panel

Custom enclosures are our specialty. We recommend protecting the control panel by installing it inside the enclosure, but this design left it on the outside.

Control Panel

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Pump House

Custom enclosures are our specialty. We recommend protecting the control panel by installing it inside the enclosure, but this design left it on the outside.

Pump House

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Dominoes

This strip mall application had a separate backflow and enclosure for each storefront.

Dominoes

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Landscaping

Strategic placement and landscaping can improve the aesthetics of an enclosure.

Landscaping

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Wrapped

Our enclosures can be easily wrapped to look like almost anything imaginable.

Wrapped

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Fire Dept Conn

Safe-T-Cover enclosures provide a perfect location to install an FDC. They are highly visible and highly accessible and make it easy to augment the sprinkler system in a fire.

Fire Dept Conn

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Big and Little

Some applications require large custom enclosures as well as standard backflow enclosures.

Big and Little

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Our backflow enclosures in the field. Get ideas for keeping your enclosures aesthetically pleasing and see some of the our most popular models.

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Retro Fit

Our enclosures can cover strange plumbing installations and retrofit virtually any application.

Retro Fit

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N-pattern 2

N-pattern backflow preventers and their efficiently sized enclosures provide a much smaller footprint.

N-pattern 2

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Stadium 2

Our enclosures are included in a lot of high profile venues, including NFL, MLB and NBA arenas.

Stadium 2

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Green

Our colored aluminum enclosures offer creative aesthetics as well as durable fusion coating that will not fade or chip.

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Landscaping 2

Strategic placement and landscaping can improve the aesthetics of an enclosure.

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A durable marine-grade aluminum enclosure is the best protection for your small diameter applications.

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75SN-AL Specifications

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100S-AL Specifications

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100SN-AL Specifications

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100SNT-AL Specifications

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200D-AL Specifications

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200DS-AL Specifications

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200S-AL Specifications

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200SN-AL Specifications

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300D-AL Specifications

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300DS-AL Specifications

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300SN-AL Specifications

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300T-AL Specifications

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300TD-AL Specifications

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300D-TDS Specifications

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300-AL Specifications

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400-AL Specifications

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400D-AL Specifications

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400DS-AL Specifications

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400LU880-AL Specifications

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400SN-AL Specifications

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400TD-AL Specifications

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400TDS-AL Specifications

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400T-AL Specifications

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400TLU880-AL Specifications

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600DS-AL Specifications

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600LU880-AL Specifications

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600TDS-AL Specifications

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600TLU880-AL Specifications

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600TM-AL Specifications

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600-AL Specifications

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600D-AL Specifications

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600T-AL Specifications

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600TD-AL Specifications

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600TS-AL Specifications

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800-AL Specifications

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800D-AL Specifications

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800DS-AL Specifications

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800LU880-AL Specifications

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800S-AL Specifications

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800TD-AL Specifications

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800TLU880-AL Specifications

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800TLU880M-AL Specifications

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800T-AL Specifications

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1000LU880-AL Specifications

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1000-AL Specifications

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1000D-AL Specifications

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1000DS-AL Specifications

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1000S-AL Specifications

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1000T-AL Specifications

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1000TD-AL Specifications

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1000TLU880-AL Specifications

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1000TLU880M-AL Specifications

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1000TDS-AL Specifications

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1000TS-AL Specifications

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LES 96-240-78 Specifications

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LES 108-324-78 Specifications

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LES 120-120-84 Specifications

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LES 132-156-72 Specifications

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LES 180-180-96 Specifications

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LES 180-312-144 Specifications

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ASSE-1060 Certified: Holds 11,000 Lbs. For 24 Hours!

ASSE-1060 Certification requires an outdoor enclosure be able to support a minimum vertical load of 100 pounds per square foot for 24 hours with no structural damage. Check out this infographic to get an idea of what that would look like.
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Lost In The Vault

You might have noticed that we've been digging deep into the problems with below grade vaults lately. That's because placing backflow preventers in utility vaults can be dangerous. Instead of writing another long and in-depth post on this topic again, we put together this infographic to illustrate the crucial reason to keep backflow preventers out of vaults.
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RPZs: Inside or Outside?

More and more water jurisdictions across the US are requiring the use of the RPZ instead of the double check. RPZ valves offer better protection to the water supply. With this added protection comes the additional work of specifying and installing reduced pressure zone valves in a safe place. Over the years, we've learned most designers just aren’t aware the relief valve could dump large volumes of water into the building. And those that did
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Tale of the Tape

Learn about the utility vault vs. the above-ground enclosure in our infographic, "The Tale of the Tape."
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How to Buy a Custom Industrial Enclosure Checklist

First time buying a custom enclosure? This checklist will help you make sure you get exactly what you need.
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Large RPZ Backflow Enclosure Case Study

We recently shipped model LES 180-312-144 for a large RPZ backflow project in Pennsylvania. This enclosure is 15 feet wide, 26 feet long and 12 feet tall. Yes, a 390 square foot enclosure! Big enough to live in!
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LEED Matrix & Letter

This letter serves to verify the contributions that Safe-T-Cover enclosures may contribute to achieving LEED certification under the Responsible Sourcing of Raw Materials Credit (1-2 points) of v4.1.
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