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We do not sell a general drainage catalogue.

Backflow prevention is the whole business, and that focus is the reason the range covers what it does: five valve families, dozens of connection variants, and bore sizes that step in millimetres rather than nominal jumps, because real drainage pipes are rarely perfect. That specialisation shows up in the detail. Slide-direct models are selected on measured pipe outside diameter and grouped by pipe material. PVC, polyethylene, twinwall, clay, ductile iron and concrete each have their own table. Inline models are selected on measured bore, with +G gasket variants covering pipes above the standard range. Where a size falls between published models, we quote it.

Mark Radford installing a rubber duckbill check valve at a silted ditch outfall in Ireland, 1992

Mark Radford fitting a 600mm duckbill valve, enabling land drainage works at Charlesland, Ireland. 1992

Maurice Radford beside a large duckbill valve packed for shipping, 1998

Maurice Radford who introduced Tideflex duckbill valves to Ireland in 1989. Everything here started with him going out and telling engineers there was a better valve than a flap.

There are 2,500 valves on the shelf in Ireland, in sizes we chose ourselves. That is a substantial investment to make in a single product range, and we make it because we know what these valves do in the ground. We have fitted them, watched them work, and gone back years later to look.
Our customers are civil engineers, drainage designers and utility asset managers — the people who have to justify a component on a drawing and then live with it for twenty years. Everything we publish is written for that audience: full dimensional tables, bolt circle diameters, weights, cracking pressures, discharge coefficients by velocity, and downloadable STEP models for every stocked size.
You should not have to give us your email address to find out a bolt circle diameter. Every dimension, weight, drilling pattern, cand discharge coefficient we hold is published on the datasheets and in the valve selector alongside live stock figures and downloadable STEP models. There is no registration, no gate, and no follow-up call.

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