Your local branchPrime Boiler Services · Port Coquitlam, BC1833 Coast Meridian Rd. Unit 69, Port Coquitlam
Prime Boiler Services has served Western Canada since 1991 and holds Technical Safety BC Class A boiler and gas contractor licences. Our team repairs, maintains and installs steam and hot-water boilers for Vancouver plants, backed by the largest boiler rental fleet and parts inventory in Western Canada.
Vancouver plants are served by our Port Coquitlam branch. When you call with a boiler down, a technician comes out with mobile repair equipment for onsite diagnostics and troubleshooting.
The same branch team handles scheduled work: maintenance programs, combustion tuning, water treatment visits, start-ups and certification prep. We deliver rental boilers to Vancouver sites. On larger jobs, the team takes on design, engineering, installation and project management.
Vancouver is covered by our Port Coquitlam team
Most of Vancouver’s boiler load is space heat and domestic hot water, with steam where hospitals, laundries and food plants need it. The mild climate keeps boilers running for much of the year at modest loads, so burners and controls log long hours cycling at part load.
The city’s hospitals run large steam and hot-water plants for heat, sterilization and humidification. We service burners, controls and pressure parts, and can supply a rental while a unit is down.
Campus plants in Vancouver include steam and hot-water systems, some converted from steam. We work on firetube, watertube and condensing boilers and the controls that tie a plant together.
Vancouver has a downtown steam utility and neighbourhood energy systems. For district plants and connected buildings, we repair pressure vessels, deaerators, feedwater tanks and piping.
Downtown hotels, office towers and high-rises rely on boilers for heat and domestic hot water. We tune combustion and fit O2 trim and digital controls to lower gas use.
Food processors and breweries around the port need clean, steady steam for cooking, washdown and process heat. We maintain their boilers and run water treatment programs to keep steam quality consistent.
Maintenance programs cover burner tuning, flame safeguard and low-water cutoff testing, refractory inspection and water treatment for steam, closed-loop hot water, glycol and cooling tower systems. We also prepare boilers for certification and recertification, with or without a Technical Safety BC inspection.
Maintenance from Port CoquitlamOur technicians troubleshoot on site, get the boiler back in service and trace the cause of the failure. We repair boilers and pressure vessels including deaerators, feedwater tanks and blowdown separators, and handle refractory repair on boilers 25 HP to 5,000 HP. Our shop also does custom and pipe fabrication.
Repair servicesOur parts inventory includes safety valves, gaskets, refractory, fuel nozzles, steam traps and controls from Autoflame, Fireye, Honeywell, Siemens and others. Order 24 hours a day for delivery or pickup at a Prime location.
Parts & suppliesOur fleet runs from 30 BHP diesel firetubes to watertubes up to 800 BHP, a truck-mounted 400 BHP watertube with its own generator, and a 2,200 HP Nebraska watertube. Units cover retrofits, outages, inspections and plant turnarounds.
Rental boilers & fleetIn British Columbia, boilers and pressure vessels 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. We do repair and alteration work under our TSBC Boiler Class A licence.
Vancouver’s winters are mild and wet, with a January design temperature of about -7 °C, so the heating season is long but gentle. Boilers spend many hours at low fire, which makes turndown, short cycling and combustion tuning matter more than peak capacity. High humidity also corrodes stacks, mechanical rooms and condensate lines, so we inspect those along with the boiler.
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Our Port Coquitlam team also serves Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond, Delta, Surrey, North Vancouver and West Vancouver, with the same technicians, parts and rental boilers that support Vancouver plants.
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Call 604-855-8797. The line is answered around the clock, and we confirm an arrival time on the call. Vancouver is about 40 minutes from our Port Coquitlam branch, depending on traffic. Our technicians travel with mobile repair equipment.
Technical Safety BC (TSBC) is the safety authority for boilers and pressure vessels in B.C. We prepare boilers for TSBC certification and recertification, and we hold its Boiler Class A and Class A gas contractor licences.
Yes. Our Port Coquitlam team gives plants across Metro Vancouver the same emergency calls, maintenance programs, parts and rental boilers as Vancouver plants.
Yes. In a mild climate, building boilers spend long hours at low fire, where poor turndown and loose combustion waste gas. We tune combustion and add O2 trim, digital controls, remote monitoring or condensing equipment. As a FortisBC trade ally, we can help eligible customers apply for FortisBC efficiency rebates.
Often, yes. We have skid- and trailer-mounted units, and a truck-mounted 400 BHP watertube with its own generator for sites short on power. Send us the site layout and we’ll confirm what fits.
Call 604-855-8797 any time for emergency repair, or to book maintenance, order parts or reserve a rental boiler.
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