About Us
Seeing the need for new and improved hot tapping machines (Drilling holes into water mains while under pressure), Dennis Barnes created Aqua-Tap. Since 2003, approximately 5,000 kits have been sold to contractors, municipalities, water districts, government agencies, and others.
Our goal is to provide the water industry with products that are time saving, affordable, and with the best technology available today. Please contact us if you have any questions. If you are a distributor and would like to distribute our products, please contact Porter & Associates at (352) 589-5888
Testimonials
"We are an underground contractor that has served Northern Arizona for the last 32 years. We have experimented several ways of doing our service taps. All the way from using homemade wet tap systems, and packing around generators with electric drills. The Aqua Tap system is by far the best that we have seen. All the tools are at hands reach and easy to use. No searching for different size adapters, as they are all in one spot. I would definitely recommend this product for any one that likes production, and a job made easy."
Warren S. Smith II
Warren Smith Contracting, Inc.
Flagstaff, AZ
"I wanted to write you and tell you about our experience with your Aqua Tap Tapping Machine.
Our company had to make two each 2" taps on eighty year old twelve inch cast iron pipe for the Escambia County Utility Authority in Pensacola, Florida. We were restricted for room with our equipment and one of our employees told me about your machine that he saw in the National Water Works office in Pensacola.
While I was in National Water Works, our foreman called and told me that the markings on the pipe were DL, made in 1886, and was fourteen inch pipe, not twelve inch. After checking, we found the pipe to be a Class "C" cast iron pipe with a wall thickness of 0.75". We called the Aqua Tap Representative, passed on this information, and they said it would work. They said the tap should take less than a minute. My first thought was that this guy was crazy and I almost walked away, because we have never made a tap that quick.
In conclusion, we bought the Aqua Tap machine and used it instead of our Mueller machine. Each tap took less than one minute! The pipe was 0.75" thick. If I had not watched it I would not have believed it. With all of the new products on the market and everything they promise, your Aqua Tap Tapping Machine will do the job."
Bill Lee, President
Utility Service Co.
Gulf Breeze, Florida

