2008-06-20
Imagine living in a remote area of the Scottish Highlands where you regularly face severe winters and blocked roads limiting fuel supplies. However, Highland Council’s installation of new central heating systems powered by the Dimplex Ascari electric boiler means that life is now set to become much more comfortable for some tenants.
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Everwarm, part of the EAGA Group, installed 100 Ascari boilers as part of a Highland Council contract to update tenants’ homes in and around Dingwall. Additionally as part of a second Highland Council contract, Wyvis Building Services installed a further 65 Ascari boilers in properties in Fort William, at the foot of Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain.
Dave Chapman of Everwarm said that the remote locations of the homes lent themselves perfectly to the Ascari. “Most of the properties were previously heated by coal fires with back boilers and tenants were having to stockpile coal supplies in case their homes were cut off by heavy snow. But because the Ascari is an electric boiler, the supply will virtually always be there, so tenants no longer have any concerns about fuel getting through.”
For the Fort William contract, Wyvis Building Services specified the Ascari after carrying out extensive research on the boiler. Managing director Iain Urquhart said, “Dimplex’s support was excellent, with personnel coming to the North of Scotland to provide in-house product training for us. They also visited some of the first houses to have the boiler installed in Fort William, to go through the settings and confirm that everything we had learnt in the classroom had been put to good use.”
Feedback on the installations from Highland Council tenants has been very favourable. They like the boiler and its controllability and are using the Ascari to take full advantage of Scotland’s Economy 10 tariff.
Eddie Boyd, principal engineer at Highland Council, said the Ascaris were fitted into bungalows, semi detached and terraced houses as part of a total heating replacement programme.
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Dimplex UK Ltd
Millbrook House
Grange Drive
Hedge End
Southampton
Hampshire
SO30 2DF
Tel: 0845 600 5111
Fax 01489 773050 |
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