Carbon monoxide poisoning is responsible for at least 400 accidental deaths and over 5,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms per year.
Unfortunately, carbon monoxide poisoning is often misdiagnosed as flu, food poisoning, allergy/asthma or chronic fatigue syndrome.
Children, the elderly, individuals with respiratory problems and pets are at risk, even at low levels.
Symptoms of carbon [...]
If you live in a climate with cold winters, your central heating boiler is by far the most energy-hungry appliance in the house. A boiler in the average UK home burns over £500 worth a gas each year, and is responsible for emitting almost 4 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As high energy [...]
The extraction and use of geothermal energy was once associated with projects on an industrial scale, but over the last few years, geothermal energy has begun a significant shift to the commercial and residential markets.
Geothermal power plants were the basis of geothermal technology, harnessing energy from deep within the earth’s crust, on a very efficient [...]
Wood boilers take the idea of the traditional wood stove and improve on it, solving some problems inherent in wood burning and making wood a clean, safe, and efficient source of heat.
Wood stoves have been used for centuries; a very famous American, Benjamin Franklin, invented the Franklin stove in the 1700s as a safe alternative [...]
Boilermakers asbestos exposure occurs when they are around microscopic fiber particles from contaminated insulation and fireproofing materials.
Between the 1920’s and the 1970’s, boilers, large heating vats, and pressure vats holding liquids or gas would have used contaminated insulation and fireproofing materials. Contaminated wrapping or lagging is still found in older buildings and on old boilers [...]
Gas boilers normally extract the air they require for combustion either from inside the heated area or straight from the outside. Extracting air directly from outside, characteristically via a plastic pipe that moves through an outside wall, is more effective and secure.
This system is generally referred to as ‘sealed combustion’, since the gas is burned [...]
A condensing boiler is a home heating system that is designed to recoup energy that conventional furnaces and boilers lose. Most houses have small pipes that discharge excess heat out through the roof - they often look like small chimneys. Condensing boilers capture this excess energy and put it to use. The reason for the [...]
Most Solar Panel systems should work with your combination boiler. The solar system generates hot water that is not going through the combi boiler. However you do need a new cylinder tank to fit a solar system to your boiler. The 4th generation of solar panel works by heating a fluid which is pumped into [...]
A boiler is a covered container in which water or other fluid is heated after being subjected to pressure. The steam or hot fluid is then disseminated out of the boiler for its utilization in heating. A safety bulb is an integral part of a boiler, and is essential for the prevention of overheating and [...]
Boilers that are rated above 90% are called condensing boilers. They are designed to extract heat from the combustion gases that’s normally lost in the exhaust lower rated boilers.
This energy saving process will only occur under certain conditions.
Condensing boilers rely on lower water temperatures of 135 degrees F and lower to gain higher efficiencies.
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