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Wednesday 27 October 2010

Plumbers – Some Useful Information to Trade Heating Installers

While upgrades to controls in existing heating systems, other than at times of boiler replacement, are not specifically required under the building regulations it is good practice for all homes to have a set of controls that at least complies with the minimum standards in the Building Regulations – a boiler interlock, room thermostat, programmer, thermostatic radiator valves and a hot water cylinder thermostat. These will ensure that the existing heating system is not operating inefficiently and allow the occupants to make further reductions in their energy costs through behaviour change.

Heating installers should recommend controls upgrades as required to meet these standards when visiting homes for maintenance and repairs. UK Government is committed to reducing energy use in homes and householders should be reminded that 84% of energy use in homes is from heating and hot water.

Wireless controls are a convenient choice for controls upgrades; allowing ease of installation and minimal disruption by taking away the requirement for wiring runs.

Control may be provided by any boiler management system that meets the specified zoning, timing and temperature and boiler interlock control requirements.

One zone must cover the ‘living area’ and heating zones will often be divided to cover ‘living’ and ‘sleeping’ areas, or upstairs and downstairs. There are usually significant opportunities for energy saving by matching zones to the lifestyle of occupants (for example with home offices) and installers should look for opportunities to set up zones beyond the minimum requirements.

 A 2006 report by Nationwide showed that most four-bedroom detached houses fall into this category with the average floor area of such properties being 157m2 (the average for five-bedroom detached was over 200m2.) Older houses can be larger than modern ones, with the average of all pre-war detached homes being over 150m2.

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Monday 18 October 2010

Reduce your carbon footprint and save money!

Sentinel products are available through Energy Smart, the efficient boilers can reduce your carbon footprint and save you money.

Sentinel, Europe’s leading water treatment specialist has become the first company in the heating and plumbing sector to be given the right to use The Carbon Trusts’ carbon label. And not just on one, but two of its top selling products, showing Sentinel are committed to A1 carbon solutions. The Carbon Label Company’s primary objective is to support companies worldwide to measure, certify, reduce and communicate the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their products and services.

Sentinel has gone the ‘extra mile’ in its commitment to the environment and carbon reduction by being the first company in the heating sector to achieve a Carbon Trust Certification for carbon reduction.  It has had a carbon footprint carried out on two of its biggest selling products both available at massive trade discounted prices when purchased through the Energy Smart website; X100 system protector and corrosion inhibitor and the X800 system cleaner. Both X100 and X800 products are carbon footprint products which are below the normal GHG emissions for similar products.

Integrated sustainability solutions provider Sustain carried out the carbon footprint assessment of both products using life cycle assessment techniques. Sentinel, by working with Sustain, has been able to calculate the carbon emissions generated in the production and distribution of these products.  The outcome is that if you clean a typical dirty central heating system using Sentinel X800 Jetflo, and treat it with Sentinel X100, you can restore efficiency by an average of 2.6%. This equates to an annual energy emission saving of 38kg CO2 for a typical home, a great start at increasing carbon footprint savings.

An example is that 38kg CO2 is the equivalent of switching on a 60 watt light bulb for 1,000 hours. For further information relating to Energy Efficient Boilers look on our website www.energy-smart.org.uk

Friday 15 October 2010

Boiler efficiency can be restored by using water treatment products

We all take our boiler efficiency within our heating systems a little bit for granted. Switch them on when we need heating and hot water. Switch them off when we don’t. But the heating system in a home is responsible for a huge percentage of the fuel we burn – whether its oil or gas or solid fuel. So doesn’t it make sense for the heating system to be as efficient as it’s possible for it to be – so it uses as little fuel as possible, costing you as little as possible, and provides heat as efficiently as it can? Maximum boiler efficiency results in cost savings and greater heating effectiveness.

A simple way to achieve this is to use high quality chemical water treatment products to flush through your system to get the system clean and to add to the system once its clean to keep it that way. Sentinel water treatment products are acknowledged throughout the heating and plumbing sector as the best you can get and the chemicals they offer will clear blocked pipe work, radiators and pumps and valves of the rust deposits – black magnetite sludge – that settles in the system and also if the property is in a gard water area - 60% of the UK, the lime scale deposits that build up on the heating surfaces in the boiler.

Adding one of Sentinel’s Boiler system cleaners – X300, X400 or X800 depending on how old the system is and how heavily blocked it may be, will see the debris in the system flushed out of it and once the water flowing through the heating system is clear, you need to add Sentinel X100 to the system which inhibits and protects the system – with its Triple-Tech technology - ensuring that all the different metals in a heating system – steel, copper and aluminium are protected from the problems that a system without chemical water treatment products will suffer from.  Sentinel’s system cleaning products restore boiler efficiency.

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Wednesday 13 October 2010

Plumbing courses could be more profitable than other qualifications

An online source has suggested the jobs achieved by people who take vocational training such as plumbing courses can often lead to better salaries than other more conventional qualifications.

A post to an Independent article on the newspaper's website, saying that vocational education has in the past been incorrectly categorised as being "easy" qualifications to complete.

The writer suggested that GCSEs, A-levels and degrees can sometimes be taken more seriously than plumbing courses, even though the latter has the potential to deliver a more profitable career.

More apprenticeships could lead to greater interest in plumbing courses

A recruitment expert has also suggested that companies could benefit from arranging more apprenticeships, which may lead to more attendees on plumbing courses.

With the every increasing awareness of environmentally friendly technologies Plumbing is just one of the industries that continues to gain the interests of ambitious students, introductions of energy efficient boilers, solar technology and wind turbines means that the public are becoming far more awear of environmental issues.  The expertise gained on green energy courses  could help firms to save money, since one source has suggested there are more than just environmental benefits to certain innovations.

General manager of the Carbon Trust Footprinting Company (CTFC) Euan Murray claimed that the most carbon emissions are often produced in unlikely places and cutting them down can lead to financial savings.

He suggested that professionals who have taken green energy courses will be best placed to work out the optimum way of making operations more environmentally friendly.

If you are a qualified installer and looking for the best online energy efficient boiler prices click on the following link www.energy-smart.org.uk

Saturday 9 October 2010

Boiler Discounts available to Plumbers from EnergySmart.org.uk

The EnergySmart boiler discount scheme provides our clients with the best value boilers available, making the replacement of boilers and installations of new and efficient central heating as economical as possible. 

To make the maximum possible impact our scheme provides boilers through EnergySmart direct to any installers in the Country, as well as to the members of our Installer Group on all our installation programmes, with the aim of encouraging them to specify condensing boilers.  

This is because most boilers are distressed purchases (i.e. an old boiler has broken down in mid-winter), and the Boiler manufacturers have relatively weak consumer brands. This means that consumers generally conduct minimal research before they purchase a new boiler, leaving the decision of which boiler is best up to the installer.

Since the launch of the UK-wide scheme in 2003 over 200 installers have registered with EnergySmart, to take advantage of the scheme click on the following link... Boiler Discount Scheme.