Category Archives: Gas Appliances

Gas Appliances, Gas Servicing

How to improve the efficiency of your heating system.

Business, Schools, Universities, Colleges, Local Government and industrial premises appreciate the benefits of running a reliable and energy efficient organisation but one of the most important areas overlooked and one that can offer the greatest savings are the heating systems. A- rated condensing boilers are universally recognised as energy efficient and have a big impact

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Commercial heating and plumbing maintenance services. How to ensure best practice.

One thing that sets Aquatech Services apart from other service providers is the quality of its commercial heating and plumbing maintenance services and installations and the reputation it has built up by having long term customer relationships. The business is founded on establishing an excellent reputation by word of mouth and as an organisation committed

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Top tips for winter – commercial heating and plumbing

Top Tips for winter plumbing Irrespective of the size of your commerical premises, office building or home the following tips may help you reduce the risk of plumbing emergencies and could save unnecessary expense and distress. Find out where the stop valve(s) are located on the incoming water supply mains and clearly label it so

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Top tips to ensure you choose the right heating and plumbing company?

Now the Olympics are over it’s back to the usual doom and gloom. The media has officially confirmed that the UK economy is effectively in a double-tip recession as if we needed reminding. Consequently, companies are sacrificing regular service and maintenance of their commercial heating and plumbing systems in an attempt to save money. In the current

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Carbon Monoxide Headache – Kill Or Cure?

ROSPA (The Royal Society for the Protection of Accidents) and Gas Safe Charity plan to launch the Be Gas Safe programme designed to see 10,000 families receive a free CO detector (Installer Jan 2012) The scheme aims to make more people aware of the hidden dangers of CO or carbon monoxide poisoning by providing more

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Thermostatic Mixing Valves. Why having a bath can scald you!

A staggering 63 people have died from bath-time scalding and a further 1,124 people have been admitted to hospital with severe burns. More recently, a two year old was killed after suffering burns which then turned septic after her mother failed to seek medical attention. The toddler had been held under hot water reported to

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How to manage the temperature of your home?

The winter of 2011 was one of the coldest on records and heating bills reached an all time high. Customers and Consumers often ask our Installers and engineers “what is the best way to keep my house warm without rocketing heating bills?” Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions. When it is very

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How To Service Your Boiler Regularly? Boiler Servicing.

Boiler breakdown season? Commercial or domestic boilers all have one thing in common they need regular servicing. You wouldn’t buy a car that hadn’t been serviced regularly or not had its brakes checked? Well the same principle applies to having your boiler serviced! To put it simply, a boiler that hasn’t been serviced can KILL YOU! Moreover,

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New Gas Safety Checks, April 2012

From next April, all Gas Safe registered engineers will require the Combustion Performance of Domestic Appliance Qualification. This represents an excellent safety standard requirement for gas service engineers. So what’s the good news? It actually makes no difference to Aquatech customers, as our gas service engineers are already qualified to the new standard which means

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Why You Should Use A Gas Safe Registered Company?

April 2012 is the deadline by when engineers need to make sure they have taken the CPA1 assessment to be able to retain their work categories for boilers and fires; this means that engineers must be registered to work on gas fires, wall heaters, and central heating appliances and are competent to use an analyser.

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