New Lennox warm air heater in Bromley
Warm air, or Hot Air heating, is where heated air is recirculated from the house, through a heating bank, and then back into the house again. It uses a network of ducts, usually in a ‘tree and branch’ formation in a domestic property. The heat bank could be heated directly by Gas, LPG, Electricity or Oil (indeed, there are a few other options as well). Installed correctly, using the latest equipment, warm air has the ability to be arguably the most efficient way to heat a space. This is because there is only one transfer of energy, from the original […]
Rinnai water heater
There are times when it would be nice to relocate everything outside, giving more room internally. Our customer, near Ashford, Kent UK, had already engaged us to fit a warm air unit in an outside cupboard in 2013, using a high efficiency Lennox G61MPVT condensing unit. This has performed admirably, so when a water heating upgrade was required, he turned to us. As things stood, the hot water was heated by electrical immersions and stored in a cylinder on the ground floor, fed by a water tank in the loft. Our customer wanted mains pressure hot water on demand, […]
Warm air transformed and a new hot water system
Our customer has recently bought a property in the Esher area. Built around 25 years ago, it was heated by two separate Johnson & Starley warm air heaters, one per floor. For hot water, a 295 litre direct gas fired AO Smith cylinder was installed upstairs. There was also a large gas hob and a gas fire. When we totalled up the load for all these appliances, it was around 92kW. This would have been fine, apart for two key problems. The first is that the property had a standard domestic metered supply, which has a maximum design load of […]
