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If you have any plumbing queries our vastly experienced counter staff will be happy to give helpful and informative advice.

To help identify your plumbing system we have presented basic diagrams of the most common found in the UK.
	Combination boiler - This is a mains fed pressurised system that instantaneously heats the mains cold water. This requires no cold or hot water storage tanks.
	Gravity fed systems - Historically, the most common installation in the UK and is identified by the use of a cold storage tank normally in the loft space. Some taps may have gravity fed hot and mains cold, which is common in the kitchen mixer.
	Pumped systems - This is a gravity system with the addition of a booster pump to increase flow to particular taps, commonly used in the shower. The larger the pump the greater the flow rate.
	Pressurised / unvented systems - This is a less common installation where the hot water is stored under mains pressure. This requires no cold-water storage in the loft and its performance is dependant on the mains supply pressure. For optimum performance all mixers should be supplied with balanced pressures.

	For optimum performance all mixers should be supplied with balanced pressures.

Ground Source Heat Pumps

Ground Source Heat Pumps allow the consumer to take advantage of renewable and sustainable energy. Heat pumps make use of the energy from the sun which is absorbed by the earth. The energy below the surface is available to be extracted by the heat pump.

Heat pumps use the constant energy available in the ground with a refridgerant circuit to allow the temperatures to be boosted to a useful level for the provision of heating or hot water for the home.

Heat Pumps are intended to be the sole source of heating and hot water production for the home giving the home owner the option of removing the existing heat source from the property and in most cases, making the heat pump the only source.

Solar Water Heaters

Solar Panels can be used for hot water heating which allow the consumer to take advantage of renewable and sustainable energy.

Solar panels harness the power in both direct and diffused sunlight and convert the energy to heat for the production of hot water for the home.

The majority of solar panels have been designed as a complement to existing heating systems which use a store of hot water in a cylinder. The existing cylinder is exchanged for a cylinder with two heat exchanger coils; one from the boiler in the property and a second from the solar panels.

Solar panels are perfect partners to modern condensing regular and sytem boilers which require a separate cylinder for the storage of hot water. When used together, a high efficiency boiler and solar system provide a highly efficient system to give heating and hot water comfort.