Centralised hot water systems in commercial and residential environments

Centralised hot water systems play a crucial role in both commercial and residential environments alike, delivering comfort and convenience to residents and building occupants.

As with any mechanical system, hot water systems require regular maintenance to ensure they operate efficiently, safely and reliably. Failing to properly maintain these systems can lead to a host of problems, from angry residents to increased energy bills and potential safety hazards.

Let’s explore further the importance of maintaining your hot water systems and how Commercial Hot Water & Maintenance can help you!

Reliability

Reliability of hot water systems is paramount, particularly in commercial and residential towers where uninterrupted hot water is vital for smooth operations. A hot water outage can lead to significant frustration for hundreds of residents while costly repairs are carried out to restore service. Regular maintenance by qualified Type A Gas service plumbers significantly reduces the likelihood of emergency outages, ensuring residents and business owners remain satisfied and operations continue smoothly for the Property and Building Managers.

Efficiency

One of the key reasons to maintain your hot water system is to ensure it operates efficiently. Without proper servicing and maintenance, the system’s ability to heat water effectively diminishes over time. As a result, it must work harder and consume more energy to perform the same task, leading to higher energy bills. Regular maintenance of your system and appliances can prevent these issues, ensuring your system operates at peak efficiency and keeps energy costs down.

Safety

Safety is another critical consideration. A neglected hot water system can lead to serious risks such as burst pipes, pressure relief failure, fire, and gas or water leaks. Regular inspections are essential for identifying and resolving potential hazards before they escalate into major problems.

How can Commercial Hot Water & Maintenance help you?

Commercial Hot Water & Maintenance is a “One Stop Hot Water Shop” that can offer a range of services from maintaining your existing hot water systems all the way to engineering and designing a new energy efficient Heat Pump system!

Our expert team of qualified service technicians can provide system health checks, compliance audits, programmed preventative maintenance, and where necessary, repairs and replacement.

Via an initial health check audit, we can evaluate the condition of your hot water system and provide relevant recommendations to restore it to optimal working order. Following this, we can implement a programmed maintenance plan to ensure ongoing reliability and efficiency.

If you are looking at upgrading your existing hot water system to a more efficient system, we can also provide a customised engineered proposal for a Heat Pump System. Change is on the horizon as outdated centralised water heating systems are being replaced with more energy-efficient methods for supplying domestic hot water in commercial facilities and apartment towers.

ENERMAX air-to-water heat pumps combined with SMARTcube tanks, can achieve an average coefficient of performance (COP) between 1 and 3 (depending on local conditions and time of year). As a result, these systems are rapidly becoming the preferred choice for many building and services managers to heat water throughout a facility.

Commercial Hot Water & Maintenance can assist by providing proposal documents, including engineered system design drawings and ROI calculations (if a current DHW bill is available). When comparing a natural gas fired plant to an air-to-water heat pump system installation, the return on investment (ROI) can sometimes be achieved in less than 8 years.

If a body corporate group is looking at ways to improve efficiency within a building, CHWAM can arrange for one of our expert team to visit your site and start the process of determining an energy change and ultimately more cost-effective way to heat reticulated water.

If ongoing service and maintenance is a priority, CHWAM can evaluate all related system components to determine whether a full system replacement is necessary or if replacing certain parts and performing a thorough service will be sufficient to ensure years of reliable and efficient hot water supply.

Most issues surrounding the function of a DHW system involved poor installation, a lack of commissioning and minimal, if any, ongoing service and maintenance works.

With the expert services offered by Commercial Hot Water & Maintenance, you can rest assured that your hot water system is in capable hands.