Andrews chiller hire area will be the South of England, concentrating on expanding Watkins already extensive chiller hire contracts in the south east and south west, supporting facilities managers and mangement companies when and wherever temporary cooling is required.

Mark Hills Managing Director said "We are very pleased to welcome Andrew to our temperature control rental team, Andrews chiller hire experience knowledge and track record is second to none, he has for a long time been considered the most experienced specialist Chiller rental engineer in the country tackling some to the largest and complicated temporary cooling applications. With Andrews wealth of experience in both boiler hire and chiller hire he has already began to share his chiller hire knowledge with our other sales engineers with application training on onsite training. Andy brings additional product knowledge and chiller applications experience to help increase the Watkins Hire profile, brand name and business levels for our expanding hire fleet of portable air conditioners, air handling units, chillers, boilers, space heaters and associated products.

Andy Ellis Specialist Hire Director said "Joining Watkins Hire to expand their chiller rental services was an easy decision to make, the team are the most experienced and productive team of specialist temperature control hire engineers I have ever met gathered in one company, and the standard of the chiller hire fleet is second to none, I have a vast experience using many different Chiller manufacturers in the past, all of the Watkins Hire Chiller rental fleet are Trane chillers which the industry considers to be the "Rolls Royce of chillers", not only do Watkins Hire have the newest most efficient chiller rental fleet in UK, the fleet is also the quietest with and most technology advanced chiller hire fleet. The chiller hire units are all fitted with GSM devices to give remote control and fault reporting via the internet, Watkins Hire continue to push the boundaries and the lead the field in remote telemetry systems having become the first to provide free of charge internet based remote fuel level monitoring on their boiler hire fleet."

When you need fast reliable temporary air cooling or process cooling, Watkins Chiller hire gives you the most reliable products and the highest service levels, tried and tested Trane Aquastream 2 Chillers and Air Handlers for even the toughest applications. Watkins Hire provides solutions that will help your staff, processes and business stay cool.

Need cooling fast? Call Watkins Chiller Hire on 0500 526696

There's been a lot of talk about whether biodiesel is green or not recently. A lot of people have been understandably shocked to realise that not all biodiesels have credible green credentials. Sustainable Bio-diesel, which is derived from used cooking oil, is a sustainable, cleaner burning alternative to fossil-diesel. Watkins have developed the heater to help their clients minimise the impacts on the environment, they are the first heater hire company to develop a temporary site heater that operates on locally sourced 100% sustainable bio diesel manufactured to EN14214 standard.

The BioDiesel heater has several unique features and makes all other site heaters either redundant or very archaic and outdated.

A unique feature of the Watkins BioDiesel site heater it is the 1st site heater available in the European rental market to fully comply with all EU legislation for fuel storage and transportation, the heater comes with an incredible 1000-litre bunded fuel tank which is integral to the heater which provide the hirer with 54 hours of operation before refuelling is required. The site heater has been rigorously tested and is certified by UN to comply with ADR & PPG2 and PPG26 all this simply means the heater is the only heater available on the market that can be legally delivered to site full of fuel.

Caring about the environment is not just about using BioDiesel instead of fossil fuel diesel, or ensuring full compliance with fuel storage and transportation, Watkins have shown their true commitment to their clients and the environment by fitting the BioDiesel event heater with a time clock for unattended operation allowing timed starting and stopping the heater, to provide further environmental control the heater can be supplied with a wireless thermostat that has a range of 200-metres.

When developing the BioDiesel site heater another form of pollution was considered by Watkins, the noise level from this heater is incredibly quiet in operation @ 63dbA @ 3m

No detail has been left to chance with the environmental credentials, even though Biodiesel is rapidly biodegradable and completely non-toxic, meaning spillages represent far less of a risk than fossil diesel spillages. The area below the burner has a drip tray to catch any possible leaks. To further prevent leaks the integral bunded fuel tank is fitted with an overfill protection alarm that alerts a fuel delivery driver that they are close overfilling the fuel tank.

For further details contact Graham Evans Events Director on 0208 654 8774

The Problem

During the summer floods of 2007 a 13th Century Country House Hotel based in the West country became victim to rising water levels, whilst the majority of the hotel escaped water damage one area suffered extensive damage. The boiler room was below ground level in a cellar under the hotel and was completely submerged for several days. The heart of any hotel is its boiler room, when the flood water receded the hotel insurers loss adjusters accessed the damage and declared all boiler plant equipment un-repairable. Heating contractors were called into quote for replacement, however it soon be apparent the hotel would be faced with a 12 week period without heating or hotwater. Faced with the delay in replacing the entre boiler plant room the loss adjuster and the owners of the hotel looked for a solution to mitigate losses and keep the hotel operational. Watkins Hire was contacted by the loss adjuster to provide an emergency temporary heating and hotwater boiler hire solution.

The Solution

Watkins Hire received a phone call and immediately dispatched a heating boiler rental specialist sales engineer to access the hotels requirements. On arriving at the hotel Watkins boiler hire were able to guarantee heating and hotwater by the close of business the same day, with a call to Watkins Hire's West Midlands depot heating boiler hire units and ancillary equipment were loaded to Watkins own transport and were on the way. Watkins Hire are currently supplying temporary heating boiler rental equipment to many flood damaged properties around the United Kingdom from a large manufacturing plants, two schools, a leisure centre, office’s and several retail and industrial buildings all by the summer 2007 floods, Watkins were able to provide a detailed plan whilst on site including pricing giving both the owners and loss adjusters piece of mind in the heating boiler hire solution.

Sales Director Roderick Williams said

“Our heating and hotwater mobile boiler hire equipment has been proven and used by many of the leading hotel chains and many smaller independent hotels over the last two decades to provide temporary heating and hotwater supplies when faced with disaster and closure due to failures with fixed boiler plant installations. With the largest range of portable heating boilers available for hire in Europe we are the supplier of choice, from small independent hotels to high profile famous London hotels we have heated them all. We offer the most modern and efficient equipment with constant investment in new technology, for example we have installed remote internet based telemetry fuel management on our complete fleet of FuelPAK bunded fuel tanks to provide our clients with true fuel management. We also pride our self on safety and are CHAS / PASA and Safecontractor accredited”

Equipment supplied by Watkins Hire included a pair of HeatGEN MBR 100kW mobile oil fired heating boilers to provide standby and duty boiler operation and 400 metres of quick fit flexible heating and hotwater pipework, a FuelPAK 3000-litre bunded fuel tank, the fuel tank was UN & ADR compliant which allowed it to be legally delivered to site full of fuel, which allowed same day delivery with our own hiab, installation and commissioning.

The boiler hire equipment selected for this project were two of Watkins Boiler Hire’s new range of HeatGEN heating boiler hire models MBR100 as it had the following features that provided speed of installation by using storz quick fit flexible hoses, it also provided without modification time clock control and building protection during frosts and colder weather.

The hotel dates back to the thirteenth century and is set in glorious grounds featuring immaculate gardens with running stream, small waterfalls, croquet lawns and tennis courts. provides peace and tranquillity, combined with international standards of comfort, that the discerning guest has a right to expect and the hotel manager placed a restriction on Watkins Boiler Hire, we were tasked to not only install and commission the same day, the boiler plant rooms had to be placed at the tradesmen entrance and parking area so the temporary boiler plant rooms would not be visible to any of hotel guests.

The hot water boiler hire equipment arrived three hours after the initial phone call to the Walsall depot, the equipment and the installation team installed 200 metres of heating flow and return pipework with two specially fabricated headers to link the two 100kw heating boilers together and a further 200 metres of domestic hotwater flow and return pipework.

The hot water boiler hire units were commissioned late in the evening and the hotels heating pipework was freed of air locks to allow correct circulation to all areas of the hotel and handed to the hotel manager online. The next day Watkins engineers visited site to ensure all air had been removed and review the installation with the loss adjuster.

Watkins Hire were contracted to supply all fuel during the hire period, supplies were constantly monitored and maintained, by providing a web based fuel monitoring telemetry system which monitored remotely fuel consumption and automatically re-ordered when refuelling was required, this fuel management feature is unique to Watkins Boiler Hire was supplied completely free of charge.

The Hotel Chains facilities director said

“We have never needed a temporary heating boiler before; as a result of the performance by Watkins Hire we have now put contingency plans in place for all 32 of our hotels. The standard of the equipment supplied and the level of service supplied by Watkins Boiler Hire was first class in fact “4 star”. We have also now contracted Watkins Hire Air conditioning hire and chiller hire division for further climate control support across our group. A big thank you to all Watkins staff for their efforts”

Watkins Hire range of portable heating boilers extends from 70kW to 3000kW with Oil and Natural Gas Burners and we are the Industry’s leader in providing hotwater and heating boilers, when and where it's needed.

Today WatkinsHIRE understand that it takes more than innovative, high performance products, superior technical service to help our customers compete and win in today's global marketplace.

It takes a total commitment to understanding Hotel heating and cooling needs; at WatkinsHIRE we pride ourselves on our ability to provide the right specialist temporary temperature rental solutions every time.

As Europe's largest independent specialist mobile temperature rental company, WatkinsHIRE hires Steam Boilers, HeatGEN Heating Boilers, DHW Boilers, KwikHEAT Warm Air Heaters, KwikCOOL Portable Air Conditioning, KwikDRY Dehumidifiers, KwikCHILL Chillers and Site Welfare units to every conceivable industry sector.

A quick free call to WatkinsHIRE 0500 526696 and you will be in touch with a product specialist who will discuss and understand your requirements, arrange site visits where necessary and provide you with a competitive quotation.