Wilo Helps Major Domestic Renovation Project

Wilo has provided a number of products to help ensure that a major new renovation project delivers the heating and hot water that a sizeable Rutland -based farm house conversion requires.

The main building is impressive in itself, but it is connected to a connecting cottage, with different areas of the property having very different requirements of a heating system.

The brief for Glen Wakeling, boss of Heatspec, was to provide the property with underfloor heating in some parts of the property and radiators in others, with towel rails in all the bathrooms – so hot water needed to be available in five bathrooms, six wc’s, a kitchen and a utility room. The customer also wanted some areas of the property to be warmer than others as some parts of the building would only be used when the grown up family was at home.

The design included a large twin coiled domestic hot water cylinder with a secondary return to every water outlet in the property. The new boiler was an Oil Boiler with a blue flame burner, weather compensated with remote access provision to the installers and controlled via an App for the customer. Each heating zone is mixed to different weather compensated heating curves.

Heatspec specified a Wilo pressurisation unit to maintain system pressure at around 1.5 bar making venting the radiator circuits much easier for the customer. There is protection on the system in the form of a magnetic dirt separator and a deaerator to aid in ensuring that corrosion cannot affect any part of the sizeable system.

The Wilo products provided, all contribute to the reliability and easy maintainability of what is a complex heating and hot water system with a significant demand for hot water at times. It’s worth remembering that the property is not on the water mains, relying for its water supply from its own borehole on the property. There is a Wilo Boost pump on the system which when called upon to work, will easily deliver enough hot water to the multiple bathrooms, even if all required at the same time.There’s a Wilo domestic hot water return pump. There’s one of Wilo’s popular Wilo Yonos-PICOs helping load the cylinder, three Yonos PICOs running mixed heating circuits, and a Wilo pressurisation unit making sure the hot water heads off to the far reaches of the property when required.

“It’s been a testing project with the high requirement for hot water at peak times when the family is home and all the bedrooms and bathrooms are occupied,” says Heatspecs Glen Wakeling.

“We worked closely with Glen to find the pumps he needed to be able to meet the demands of this system and now it’s up and running and the customer is happy with it, we can relax a bit knowing that we’ve managed to deliver the system this property needed.” says Wilo’s Justin Smith.

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