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Temporary Heating Boiler Contingency Planning – Fail to plan – Plan to fail

When establishing your heating failure contingency plan. We keep in mind that there may be other considerations,depending on the application and area of the world.

Watkins Hire temporary heating boiler hire units range from 70kw to 3000kw

Watkins Hire work with building owners and facilitiy mangers to develop contingency plans for heating boiler and domestic hot water systems in the case of boiler failures, shutdown or an extended boiler breakdown.

Watkins Hire contingency plans for boiler plant failure work with you to establish a short lead-time on emergencey boiler equipment.

Watkins Hire always recommend valved and blanked off piping connections built into the heating boiler and domestic hot-water system for quick connection, a hotwater boiler contingency plan can be put into action quickly and the system can produce heating and hotwater again in a short period of time.

Heating contingency planning
Today, many companies have contingency plans for critical areas of their business. Some contingency plans deal with natural disasters and others with the loss of power in critical areas. However, very few building owners, factory owners & facility managers have taken the time to think about what a loss of cooling or heating would mean to their facility. If the boiler system failed or was suddenly grossly undersized due to cold weather, etc., how would that affect business? What financial risk would be involved with a loss of heating?

A Watkins Hire heating boiler / hotwater boiler contingency planning is intended to minimize the losses a facility may incur as a result of a total or partial loss of heating or hot water. It allows a building owner or facility manager to act more quickly by having a plan in place and by proactively preparing the building or process to accept temporary boiler plant equipment.

Although a number of facilities are prepared for temporary heating boilers or chillers during orginal construction, whilst construction a new building or process provides an easy and cost-effective opportunity to prepare for a temporary hotwater boiler hire plant, it is a logical time to provide water pipework to fill the temporary boiler and electrical connection points. This helps to keep costs down and reduces the need to shut down existing equipment to make necessary building preparations in the future.

Heating and Hotwater boiler contingency planning is the process of preparing for a loss of heating and hotwater services while in a non emergency situation. This allows common sense, rather than panic during a critical boiler failure. The following topics are general and broad in scope. They provide a sense of what is involved in the planning process.

Contingency failure planning itself is very detailed and situation-specific. Minimum boiler capacity required It is important to first identify the minimum capacity required. If you have multiple boilers in a facility, it may be acceptable to have less kW in an emergency situation. For example, a facility’s heating boiler plant may consist of 800kW, but the minimum kW required may only be 500 kW. Therefore, it is also important to identify the plan of action if Boiler 1 fails, if Boiler 2 fails, if Boilers 2 and 3 fail, and so on.

Type and size of boiler

The type and size of contingency heating required by a facility are determined by several factors. In turn, the choice of boiler determines how the facility is prepared. Examples of parameters that determine the mobile boiler are:

• Electrical requirements
• Feul type, natural gas or oil
• Ease of installation
• Location or available space for mobile boiler
• Comfort heating / domestic hot water or process heating

Location of boiler equipment

Location can be a major factor in contingency planning. When selecting the location of the temporary equipment it is important to consider:

• Water and electrical connections location
• Natural gas connection location
• Sound sensitive areas in the facility
• Location easily accessible to service staff
• Equipment separated from the public
• Ambient conditions

Water and electrical connections

• Water connection size requirements
• External pipework locations
• Sufficient power to run the temporary unit
• Possible generator requirement

Ancillary equipment

• Pumping system requirements
• Temporary flexible boiler hose requirements
• Electrical cable requirements
• Bunded fuel tank

How Emergency Preparedness – Contingency Planning Works?

Watkins Hire will work with you to create your Temporary heating and cooling Contingency Plan. The goal of continuity planning is to minimise your downtime and reduce the risk of financial loss to your facility due to the loss of your heating and hotwater boiler system.

What Makes Us Right For You?

Watkins Hire recognises that buildings, processes, companies and their clients, like people, are unique. So we adapt our skills to solve your specific property temperature control and climate control problems and deliver temporary boilers & temporary chillers, emergency cooling and temporary air conditioning hire solutions that truly meets your needs.

We have a nationwide team of industry experts and 148 years of experience to manage the temporary cooling systems & temporary heating systems at your facilities. Watkins Hire will provide your businesses and your clients and energy efficient and cost effective temperature and climate control for spaces large and small with our range of temporary boilers for Hire from 30kW to multi megawatt boiler rental units.

For a heating boiler hire site survey / contingency plan, quotation from a friendly expert support for boiler rental advice please call us now on one of the regional numbers below:

• South East 0208 667 0088 / 07879 600992
• South West 01594 835834 / 07836 276177
• West Midlands 01922 634 797 / 07825 123823
• Northern England 01695 724888 / 07500 962220
• South Wales 02920 277000 / 07827 445512
• North Wales 01695 724888 / 07500 962220
• Scotland 07825 611814
• Northern Ireland 02890 950077 / 07825 618277
• Ireland 00353 12480092 / 0044 7825 618277