STAFFORD
LAUNDERETTE AWASH
IN COST SAVINGS
Rinnai has just completed the installation of two HDC1500i
continuous flow hot water heating units at a busy laundrette serving
businesses and the public in Stafford. Rinnai were chosen on the
recommendation of another laundrette owner, in Lancashire, who
praised the efficiency and major cost savings because of switching to
cascaded continuous flow hot water units as they guarantee almost
unlimited supplies of hot water at peak demand whilst savings on
fuel costs.
Word of mouth is the best possible marketing and a site survey
was duly arranged and completed to confirm the best solution in
controlling operational costs and efficiencies. The existing system
was a heated stored water system – this meant that the site was
paying to heat water it was not instantly using.
It was clear from the site survey that Rinnai units configured to
maximise both space and energy efficiency – and critically – the
system’s reliability – would yield seriously large cost savings to the
owner.
Needless to say, keeping the stored volume at optimum temperature
24/7 was often wasted energy, a really bad, expensive idea all round.”
Clearly the site needed to change the system to one that could cater
for these fluctuations without running up huge energy bills and the
solution wasn’t hard to find.
“I was made aware of Infinity water heaters installed in similar
applications to mine and in general their experiences with their
products and their personnel, such as the local Rinnai sales
consultant, were consistently positive and professional.”
“The beauty of working with Rinnai is the service they offer. We
presented the project to Rinnai’s Technical Sales team who came up
with the design, configured the sizes of unit required and delivered
the system complete and to a very tight timescale – this was key as
the existing water heater had developed a leak and I was extremely
mindful that the business had to remain operational to satisfy local
demand. We are very happy with Rinnai and will be spreading the
word,” adds Ray Gallimore.
Given that the Rinnai units were being wall mounted and externally
flued, this gave extra storage space to the premises as there was no
need for a dedicated plant room.
Comments Ray Gallimore, proprietor of the Weston Road Launderette,
“The old storage system had become completely impractical,
inefficient and needlessly expensive to run. Now two HDC1500i internal mounted water heaters with secondary
circulation provide hot water for 12 commercial machines, plus a
sink and a wash hand basin.
“The Rinnai system has resulted in an energy reduction and gas
saving due to higher efficiencies and because we are no longer
maintaining large amounts of stored hot water. It’s not rocket science
to work that out!”
“For example, the washers tend to be used sporadically. During
a busy weekend there could be a demand for eight to ten people
battling to use the machines at once, during the week there might be
one or two. That meant we had to store a decent volume of hot water
‘just in case’ in the form of a storage water heater. “In terms of gas usage running costs compared to the old wasteful
storage system, our bills have virtually been halved since the Rinnai
system went live five months ago which is absolutely tremendous,”
says Gallimore.