Articles about Booster Pump Installations.
We had a real blast from the past when we recently upgraded a fixed speed cold water booster set to a PUK VARI COM. One of the engineers who undertook the work, presented Peter Bunton (the Director of Pumps UK Ltd) this framed gift. In 1993 a young Mr Bunton was attending the same site…
It has been a busy month for Pumps UK Ltd. We were contacted by one of our clients as they needed to replace 2 cold water booster pumps installed. Both sets had gone beyond repair and a life cycle upgrade was in desperate need. The first set of pumps to be replaced was the softened…
We were contacted by one of our customers as their current cold-water booster set had a failed motor and inverter. The problem was the controls on the set were obsolete and the replacements will not communicate with the other controllers. We came to the conclusion that even though the controllers had obsolete programming the motors…
Pumps UK were contacted by CITI bank in Canary Wharf to advise on an upgrade on their cold water booster set. The current insulation had 4 x directly driven long coupled pumps, each pump had 90 KW motors on them. The pumps had been designed to run as Duty Assist but because the 40 bar…
Pumps UK Service were called by a client with a site in London where it had problems with water pressure. We found the site was using an old CCD water boosting set with outdated pumps. We soon discovered that the water pressure was fluctuating due to the controls and accumulators failing, consequently causing the set…
Pumps UK Service were approached by a client with a site they had in South West London. Previously, the site was a row of residential properties, but had been completely demolished to make way for a new multi-storey commercial and residential block. Pumps UK were brought in during the first fix stage of development. The…
Pumps UK was called to a block of residential flats in Woolwich which had inverter-driven cold water booster sets. Two of the three pumps had failed electronically where both inverters had blown out. On top of that, the seals were leaking and the bearings had failed. So this left the entire block of flats running…
