Cheshire Care Home Requirements
Our customer is a care home in the Cheshire area that provides nursing and dementia residential care for up to 30 elderly residents.
Given the age and vulnerability of their residents, providing a warm and comfortable environment was key. Older people are generally less active, so they feel the cold more easily.
A lack of consistent heating can easily impact their health and wellbeing, as well as their overall quality of life. To avoid this, the care home required their heating system to be operational 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
The care home also needed a reliable, temperature-controlled supply of hot water to safeguard the personal hygiene of the care home’s residents, visitors, and staff, as well as the overall cleanliness of the premises. This was vital to combating the spread of germs that could prove harmful to the residents, as well as viruses such as COVID-19.
OKEL's Commercial Boilers Solution
After consulting with the care home and assessing their needs, OKEL decided to replace the current boilers with two highly efficient ATAG Commercial Q60SR system boilers.
These were chosen specifically for their excellent low energy consumption and high-quality components.
The ATAG QR Series provides the following benefits:
- A-rated for energy efficiency, resulting in reduced costs and lower CO2 emissions.
- Durable materials and long-life stainless-steel heat exchanger to provide maximum efficiency for the lifetime of the boiler.
- Achieves maximum BREEAM points for low emissions.
- Hydrogen blends ready for when this greener hybrid fuel type becomes readily available throughout the UK’s gas distribution networks.
Given the care home’s need for continuous heating and ready access to hot water, the overall efficiency and reliability of the ATAG QR series of boilers made them the ideal choice.
A modern & high efficiency boiler can save up to 40% on your energy bills. ”
Installation / Results
Given the care home’s need for continuous heating and ready access to hot water, the overall efficiency and reliability of the ATAG QR series of boilers made them the ideal choice. To achieve this OKEL’s lead gas installer conducted a pre-installation site visit to determine the best approach for the switchover.
The overall installation process was quite complex and involved decommissioning and removal of the existing boiler systems, pipework and flue alterations, and installation of the two new ATAG commercial boiler systems.
Thanks to our detailed consultation process we were able to keep the outage to an absolute minimum during the installation. Care home staff were notified in advance of planned outage so they were able to prepare the residents and ensure that any outage did not interfere with their day-to-day tasks.
All works were completed to schedule and with commercial Gas Safe commissioning certification issued to our customer upon project completion.
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