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The document provides an inspection checklist for insulation projects covering various aspects of the project including the substrate, materials, installation, jacketing/finishing, equipment, and post-installation. It also discusses potential difficulties contractors may face and malpractices to watch out for. The checklist is intended to ensure insulation work meets specifications and is installed correctly.

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Insulation Notes PDF

The document provides an inspection checklist for insulation projects covering various aspects of the project including the substrate, materials, installation, jacketing/finishing, equipment, and post-installation. It also discusses potential difficulties contractors may face and malpractices to watch out for. The checklist is intended to ensure insulation work meets specifications and is installed correctly.

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Inspection Checklist General

• Principal • Remarks
• Project
• Location
• Description
• Contractor
• Date
• Report number
• Inspector
Inspection Checklist
Condition of substrate
• System released for insulation • No obstructions
• Surfaces are clean and dry • Any technical deviations are
• Heat tracing is installed and observed and documents.
released for insulation • Containment is in place
• Coating system is correct • Supports are correctly installed
• Comments
Inspection Checklist
Materials
• Materials received in approved • Comments
condition • Temporary protection available
• Materials are correct to for uncompleted work
specification
• Stored in correct manner in dry
weatherproof buildings and off
the ground
• Samples obtained for
verification/testing
Inspection Checklist
Installation
• Insulation is correct thickness • Insulation securement is correct
and number of layers • Vapour barrier is installed
• Securement bands, tape, wires correctly and undamaged
are correct and at correct pitch. • Expansion/contraction joints are
• Joints are staggered and sealed installed as specified
• Bends and fittings are • Extent of insulation is correct.
prefabricated • Comments
Inspection Checklist
Jacketing and Finishing
• Correct type thickness and finish • S-clips are used as specified
of materials have been used • Expansion/contraction overlaps
• Overlap, amount and placement correctly installed
are correct • All terminations have been
• Securement correct sealed correctly
• Joints correctly positioned • Correct type and installation of
• Flashing is approved and vapour barrier
correctly installed
Inspection Checklist
Flanges, Valves, Equipment
• Correct allowance for bolt • Comments
removal
• Removable box covers are
correct
• Correct watershed installation
on jacketing
• Valve extension handles are
installed
• Protrusions are watertight
sealed
Inspection Checklist
After “Start-Up”/Maintenence
• Insulation finishing/jacketing is • Surface temperatures are
damaged checked
• Poor joint sealing • Infra red scan carried out
• Insulation is missing • Comments
• Materials are left behind/untidy
jobsite
Difficulties for Contractors

• Ambiguous Specifications
• Delays by client in giving clarifications
• Optimistic supplier data sheets
• Supply problems of specific materials
• Weather conditions
• Insulation clashes with other objects
• Delays out of his control/conflicting trades
Contractor Malpractices

• Incorrectly staggered joints


• Badly sealed joints in cladding
• Missing cladding
• Incorrect cladding type/thickness
• Use of screws on cladding used for Cryogenic insulation
• Cellular glass without anti-abrasion compound on inner layers
• Insulation applied over paint defects
• Insulation damaged due to poor storage
• Incorrect diameter insulation leaving gaps between pipe and insulation
• Inadequate strapping and wrong pitch
• Overtightening banding
• Loose banding on cladding
• Applying wet material
• Applying material to wet surface
• Faulty application of vapour seal
• Inadequate surface preparation prior to primer application
• Wrong system installed eg. PU foam and vapour seal for -200°C use
• No expansion/contraction joints in calcium silicate system operating at
up to 900°C
• Cladding joints collecting not shedding
• Incorrect mesh in use as reinforcement
• Double layered system with joints incorrectly spaced,
• Fixings at wrong pitch,
• Poorly fitting to pipe as a whole,
• Liquid vapour seal not being dry before cladding being fitted.
Risk Based Inspection
(Inspection locations and intervals)
• Risk = Probability of failure x
consequence of failure
Probability : operating temperature, location, length of
time in service
Consequence : Likelihood of loss of life,
environmental impact, cost of loss of product etc
Question ?

• As an inspector what would you do on your visit to a site where you


“suspected” the insulation work was incorrect and the materials used
were also incorrect ??
• Consult project specification to ascertain if work is correct…there may
have been revisions to the specification due to external factors you are
not aware of!!
• Obtain technical data sheets and/or certificates of conformity for
insulation products being used
• If the above are not to the agreed specification discuss the issue with
contracts manager, supervisor, sub-contractor, etc always respecting the
correct chain of command
• Report findings to supervisor/manager and whether remedial action has
been carried out
• Document with details of parties concerned, products used, areas,
locations and extent and back up with photographs if possible.
• If necessary raise non-conformance report (NCR) or issue the correction
report so it can be raised on your /clients behalf.
Acknowledgements
• Altrad NSG/Centrica Barrow in Furness
• Interserve/Syngenta Huddersfield
• PPG Foamglas
• Cape Ltd
• Deborah Services Ltd
• IBSL Ltd.
• Elcometer Ltd
• Defelsko Corporation
• Sheffield Insulation Ltd (SIG)

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