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Commercial & Property Management

Commercial backflow, one less thing to manage

Restaurants, clinics, apartment buildings, hotels, warehouses and whole portfolios. We put every assembly on one schedule built around each utility’s due dates, test around your business hours, and hand you one clean compliance packet.

A typical commercial property has more than one assembly: premises isolation at the meter, a detector assembly on the fire line, internal protection on equipment, and irrigation. Each one has its own due date with the water utility, and each needs a passing report on file. Miss one and the utility’s next letter is a non-compliance charge, or a shutoff date.

Who we work for

Property managers & HOAs

Send us the portfolio once. We match every assembly to the utility’s records, flag anything missing, and put every property on one calendar with one invoice per cycle.

Restaurants & food service

RP premises isolation at the meter, plus soda carbonators, chemical dispensers, espresso machines and dish machines inside. We test before opening so you never lose a service.

Medical, dental & veterinary

Seattle Public Utilities and Kent both list clinics as high-health-hazard facilities that need premises isolation at the meter — typically an RP. Dental vacuum and sterilization equipment add internal protection.

Multifamily & mixed-use

Domestic RP or DC, a DCDA on the fire line and irrigation on every building. SPU requires protection on buildings over 3 stories or 30 feet; Auburn requires premises isolation on every non-single-family service.

Hotels & hospitality

Pools, spas, laundry, kitchens, boilers and fire lines — commonly 6 to 15 assemblies per property, all on one visit.

Industrial, warehouse & logistics

Process water, boilers, cooling towers, wash bays and large-diameter fire-line detector assemblies across multi-building campuses.

Car washes & fleet facilities

Car washes are on the state’s high-hazard list. Expect RP premises isolation plus protection on chemical and reclaim systems.

Schools, churches & public buildings

Kitchens, boilers, irrigation and fire service, scheduled around school calendars and services.

The compliance packet

Every commercial cycle ends with a packet per property, ready for your files, your insurer or your auditor:

  • Signed field test reports for every assembly, with gauge readings
  • Make, model, size, serial number and location for each assembly
  • Photos of each assembly and its test-cock readings
  • Repair notes, parts replaced and retest results
  • Filing confirmation for each water utility
  • Next due date for every assembly

How a portfolio onboards

  1. Send the list. Addresses, or just the utility notices you have.
  2. We reconcile. We match each assembly to the utility’s records and flag anything missing, mismatched or overdue.
  3. One calendar. Tests get grouped by area and due date, scheduled around tenants and business hours.
  4. Test, repair, file. Failures are quoted on site; retests and filings are done for you.
  5. Stay ahead. 30-day heads-up before every due date, every year.

Shutdowns, handled. Testing a domestic-line assembly briefly interrupts water to the building. We coordinate the window with you and post tenant notices if you want them. For fire lines, we coordinate with your monitoring company first.

Contractors who install assemblies on commercial jobs: see our trade partner program.

FAQ

Common questions

01 Will my water be shut off during the test?
Briefly. Testing requires closing the assembly’s downstream shutoff for a few minutes per assembly. For irrigation that’s invisible. For a building’s domestic supply or a fire line, we coordinate the timing with you — and for fire lines, with your monitoring company — before we touch a valve.
02 Do you test backflow assemblies on fire sprinkler systems?
Yes. In Washington, a certified BAT may inspect, test and maintain the backflow assembly on a water-based fire protection system without a separate fire sprinkler certificate. We test DCVAs, DCDAs, RPBAs and RPDAs on fire service lines and coordinate with your alarm monitoring company so a test doesn’t become a fire department response.
03 Do you manage testing for property managers and HOAs?
Yes — it’s a big part of what we do. Send us your portfolio once; we build a schedule around each utility’s due dates, test every assembly, file every report, and give you one consolidated compliance packet. See commercial & property management.

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