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…
We were contacted by the facilities department at the Tower of London building as the existing heating pressurisation unit had failed. We carried out a full onsite survey and concluded that the unit was not financially worth repairing and due to the importance of the plant we recommended that it should be replaced for new.…
Pumps UK were contacted by a company that specialise in energy saving recently, and we were asked to carry out a life cycle survey on all the heating pumps for a building at Royal Arsenal. They currently had four twin head circulators that were all providing heating services for four separate blocks of apartments. The existing…
We were recently asked to replace a chilled water pressurisation unit in an office block in central London. The old pressurisation unit that was installed had failed and the parts were obsolete. The pumps in the existing unit produced a static head pressure of 10 bar as this is what was required for the chillers…
Pumps UK were called out by our customer as they had a pump installed on their site that had failed. The pump itself was an old circulator which had next to no details on it that we could work with. Our engineers carried out various electrical and mechanical tests on site and discovered that the…
After much hard work, especially from our Service Supervisor Paul, we have received the prestigious CHAS accreditation. CHAS stands for Contractors’ Health and Safety Assessment Scheme and is the Foremost Authority on UK compliance, Risk Mitigation and Supply Chain Management. Well done to all the Pumps UK team!
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…
Well done to the Pumps UK team on achieving the Constructionline accreditation for another year! Again, thanks to all at Pumps UK who have made this happen. It is much easier when you do things properly.
