As industry experts, we understand the importance of identifying challenges and opportunities in the pre-purchase phase of a project. While chutes are simple in concept, there are many variants. Specifiers, architects, detailers, manufacturers, and installers use the same names and descriptions for different things. Western makes buying easy. You provide access to your contract documents and we will provide price, snips, cut sheets and recommendations with alternates. We are happy to review competitors quotes, with or without the price, to ensure you are comparing apples to apples and not vinegar. Your trust is more valuable than any single order, and we have been earning it for many years!
PRICING
SUBMITTALS
Western Chutes, Compactors & Recycling Systems provides highly detailed submittal drawings customized to your project, ensuring our products will fit and work the first time. Every order is custom fabricated, so we draft and detail each chute into your plans! Verifying deck and wall construction, elevation and plan dimensions, sprinkler locations, wiring and plumbing layout and connections, support systems, door direction, ADA compliance, and so much more. Engineered drawings, or product information to prepare same, are available. We are here for you, always ready to support via phone, email, live chat, or video / face time job walk. Our support, from Specifier and Architectural to GC, Installer, and closeout, is what sets us apart. You will not find this level of detail and support anywhere but Western Chutes, Compactors & Recycling Systems.
INSTALLATION
The installation of Western Chutes, Compactors & Recycling Systems products could not be simpler. Our chutes are custom fabricated to each customers’ field verified project dimensions, creating a true Plug & Play system anyone with the ability to anchor or fasten a frame to the floor can install. In fact, our intake door electrical interlock, chute cleaning, and some compactor system products are named “Plug & Play”!
Chute installation does not require any trimming, cutting, or even screwing sections of chute together. The NFPA 82 Standard on Incinerators and Waste and Linen Handling Systems and Equipment specifically prohibits screws penetrating a chute! The chute sections (pieces), typically two per floor, slip into each other by hand and are held in place with a gravity compression fitting. These stack up through the building from the bottom up with a support point at each floor level. This also applies to discharge doors, vents, and offsets. Once the surrounding walls are finished, simply snap on the embossed stainless-steel trim, and the chute system is finished.
To ensure the simplest of installations while maintaining both code and UL compliance. The chutes are delivered with the adjustable intake doors attached, sound dampening applied, fire sprinklers, flushing head, and all other accessories installed on the chute ready for chute installation. Even the electrical interlocks are a 24vac Class 2 Plug & Play system with prefabricated UL listed cables. No Sheet Metal, Plumbing, Sprinkler, or Electrical permits, or professional trade training are required to install a chute.
Compactors and recycling systems are just as simple. Place the equipment, anchor it down, connect the hydraulic hoses and Plug & Play cable connection to the power pack (when ordered separately) where we have an additional Plug & Play port to sync the equipment with the chute intake doors! The electrician lands the power in the control panel and you are ready for startup!
CLOSE OUT PACKAGE
Upon the shipment of your chute, or installation when provided by one of our distributors, a complete set of final fabrication drawings, warranty, service, maintenance, and parts lists are provided for closeout documents.
