Heating a Swimming Pool

Heating a Swimming Pool

Swimming pool heating can be very expensive, but much can be done to reduce running costs. Gas powered heating is more economical than any other means of heating and is best installed if you live in a gas supplied area. Electricity and oil fired heating have swapped...
Asbestos in Cabinet Heaters

Asbestos in Cabinet Heaters

There continues to be a great many older cabinet heaters, in daily use, that still contain internal asbestos panels and potentially dangerous fibres that can be released into the atmosphere.  Asbestos lagging, sprayed asbestos and asbestos insulating boards can easily...
Carbon Monoxide a Hidden Danger

Carbon Monoxide a Hidden Danger

Carbon Monoxide (CO) can be produced whenever fossil fuels are burned at inadequately high temperatures. You can’t see, taste or smell CO, but it can kill quickly without warning, so it is important that the risks are fully understood. Oil and gas are...
Energy Saving

Energy Saving

Commercial buildings Some general advice for industrial heating management The most common methods of heating commercial buildings are via radiators, warm air handling units and electric heaters – Where possible use unit or radiant heaters as these are very cost...
Corgi Gas

Corgi Gas

What is (was) the CORGI Gas register? CORGI has been replaced as the adminstrator for the gas safety register by Capita – (see What is the Gas Safe Register?) CORGI was the gas safety watchdog set up in 1970 to help reduce the number of fatalities caused by...