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.
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.
“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.
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That meant we had to store a decent
volume of hot water ‘just in case’ in
the form of a storage water heater.
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.”