St Andrew’s Church
has had a new heating boiler installed during the Summer months. It is an
environmentally-friendly biomass boiler. (No, I had no idea what that meant,
either!) It is a boiler which burns little wooden pellets, and it is ‘green’
because the fuel is renewable. As trees are felled to make the pellets, more
trees are planted, which take only a few years to grow, enabling more pellets
to be produced. The source of the fuel is ‘renewable’.
The boiler has only
recently been commissioned, so we don’t have enough information to comment on
its efficiency or how economical it is. This story is about its installation.
We are using a
Christian heating company from Manchester, named HeatinGlobal. They have a
wealth of experience in fitting heating systems into churches of all sizes and
ages.
The boiler room at
St Andrew’s is in the cellar, down a very narrow stone staircase. It was
obvious when the boiler unit, and its related water-tank, were delivered to the
church, that they could not be taken down the staircase. Damien, the engineer,
said blandly: “We will have to dig a hole outside the cellar and remove the
wall, to drop it in.” So that is what the men did – as the photos show.
Martin B, St Andrew’s
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