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Navigator – Making Its Mark In The Plumbing Distribution Sector There’s also a brand new product available to heating installers and plumbers – and like all great new ideas it’s simple. The Serpent is the new way to make flexible connections – particularly if you’re working in a restricted, confined space – or if its fully on display and you don’t want a mesh connector that quickly rusts or at best, loses its pristine look soon after fitting.
Navigator is building its position as the leading supplier to plumbing merchants across the UK. First Formed in 1934 the company is a wholly independent business, which focuses on providing an unmatched supply service to the plumbing merchant and distribution industry. Technical expertise is key to the company’s success and has steadily been built up over a long period of time, with many members of staff having more than 10 years experience and several senior personnel having more than 25 years. The product range now boasts more than 4,500 lines and the supply chain expertise which has been developed within the plumbing metals sector has been successfully applied to ranges such as plastic pipe systems, magnetic filters, hand tools and plumbing consumables. It’s seen its major range of Pressfit fittings all independently tested and certified by BSI to BS EN 1254-7, the prestigious new kitemark certification. All Navigator Pressfit products are “M-type” and fully compatible when used with standard M type tools. The new BS EN 1254-7 standard incorporates far more rigorous testing procedures, including a standardised high temperature test, greater pull out resistance, updated requirements for seals, comprehensive requirements for threads and additional leak tightness for completed assemblies. Kitemark products are audited and tested by BSI at least once a year, as is the production and quality process at the factory. The MB range is from Navigator’s Midbrass stable for water, synonymous with supplying quality plumbing parts for over 50 years. Suitable for chilled water and heating systems, MB Pressfit is also approved for potable water use by WRAS and incorporates black polymeric seals manufactured to BS 6920-1:2000. Navigator’s Salvus range is designed for use with gas and is easily indentifiable. It has a special high temperature yellow polymer seal conforming to DIN EN 549:2019.
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And it’s an all stainless steel construction product – so its reliable and does the job 100%. The Serpent has no inner liner to rupture or block, and even when the hose is bent to an acute angle, the full bore is maintained, resulting in perfect flow and much easier installation. The pressure rating and flexibility of the product has been successfully tested for leakage and pressure to BS EN ISO 1086:2023 which specifies a maximum test pressure of 31.5 BAR and a leak test of 1.5 times that pressure. It’s NSF Regulation-4 approved for use with potable water and uses only WRAS approved materials, it comes in white and has a wipe clean outer cover. It can be bent and re-bent – it won’t split or snap. The fittings at either end – and there are a wide selection of these, both sizes and end connections - are stainless steel and easy to tighten and loosen. It’s a dream product and its available from all good plumbers merchants. www.navigatormsl.com
