Your local branchPrime Boiler Services · Port Coquitlam, BC1833 Coast Meridian Rd. Unit 69, Port Coquitlam
The Prime Boiler Services team in Port Coquitlam repairs, maintains and tunes steam and hot water boilers for Nanaimo plants, and supplies parts and rental boilers when you need them. Repair and service are on call 24/7.
Nanaimo is part of our Port Coquitlam team’s service area, for emergency calls and scheduled work. Technicians arrive with mobile repair equipment.
We schedule planned work around the sailings. Maintenance visits, combustion tuning, refractory repair and recertification can be booked into your shutdown window, and the crew loads the truck with what the job calls for before leaving the mainland.
Nanaimo is covered by our Port Coquitlam team
Nanaimo’s economy leans on wood fibre, health care and education, and all three depend on boilers. Pulp and sawmill operations need continuous process steam, and the hospital and university campus need dependable heat through a long, wet heating season. Prime works in lumber, institutional and commercial plants across BC.
Kraft pulping uses large volumes of steam for digesting, drying and evaporation. We repair pressure parts, piping and refractory, and supply rental steam for turnarounds and outages.
Dry kilns depend on steady steam or thermal fluid heat. We service and repair the boilers, steam piping and condensate systems that keep kilns running.
Hospitals use steam for sterilization, humidification and heat, and cannot afford downtime. We test low-water cutoffs and flame safeguards and can set up a rental boiler during repairs.
Campuses often run central heating plants and building boilers through the long heating season. We handle annual maintenance, burner upgrades with O2 trim and digital controls, and summer shutdown work.
Maintenance programs are built around your boilers and your inspection dates. We inspect controls and safeties, tune combustion, check refractory and tubes, and review water treatment for steam, closed-loop hot water and glycol systems. The visit covers the rest of the boiler room as well.
Maintenance from Port CoquitlamOur TSBC Class A boiler licence covers repair and alteration of Section I and Section IV boilers, pressure vessels and B31.1 and B31.3 piping. We also repair refractory on boilers 25 HP to 5,000 HP and troubleshoot burners and flame safeguards on site.
Repair servicesPrime carries the largest boiler parts inventory in Western Canada, including safety valves, gaskets, refractory, fuel nozzles, controls, steam traps and water treatment. Order 24 hours a day for delivery to Nanaimo. Brands include Autoflame, Fireye, Honeywell, Siemens and Oilon.
Parts & suppliesOur rental fleet runs from a 30 BHP firetube to a 2,200 HP Nebraska watertube, including watertubes from 400 to 800 BHP and a truck-mounted watertube with its own generator. Units are skid- or trailer-mounted for outages, turnarounds and boiler replacements.
Rental boilers & fleetBoilers in Nanaimo fall under Technical Safety BC, which administers the Safety Standards Act and the Power Engineers, Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration Safety Regulation. That covers design registration, installation permits, certificates of inspection and the licensing of contractors and power engineers. Prime holds TSBC Class A boiler and gas contractor licences.
Nanaimo rarely sees deep cold, but its heating season is long and wet. Many boilers spend months at low fire and cycle often, which wears burners and controls and lets flue gas condense in stacks and breechings. Damp salt air corrodes exterior surfaces. We tune combustion for low-load operation and look at turndown and O2 trim. As a Fortis trade ally, we can help you work through Fortis efficiency rebates.
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Along with Nanaimo, our Port Coquitlam team works in Lantzville, Cedar, Gabriola Island, Ladysmith, Chemainus, Duncan, Parksville and Qualicum Beach.
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Call 604-855-8797. The line is answered 24/7, and we confirm an arrival time on the call, based on the next sailing and crew availability. It’s about 3.5 hours from our Port Coquitlam branch, including the ferry crossing.
Yes. Our Port Coquitlam team serves Parksville and Qualicum Beach to the north, Ladysmith, Chemainus and Duncan to the south, and Gabriola Island. For Gabriola sites we plan around the Gabriola ferry and bring the parts we expect to need.
Technical Safety BC issues certificates of inspection. We prepare your boilers for inspection and look after the recertification paperwork under our TSBC Boiler Class A licence.
Yes. In 2020 we delivered a complete steam system for San Forest Group in Port Alberni, with Hurst boilers, steam and condensate piping, startup and after-sales support. Our TSBC licence covers B31.1 and B31.3 piping, and we repair deaerators, feedwater tanks and blowdown separators.
Yes. Our skid- or trailer-mounted rental boilers can be delivered to your Nanaimo site, crossing included. Tell us your pressure, load and fuel.
Call 604-855-8797 for emergency repair, a maintenance plan, parts or a rental boiler to keep your Nanaimo plant producing.
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