Henkle St – Brunswick
Why People Love Hydronic Heating If you are looking for a highly efficient heating system for your home, office or business premise, you should consider installing hydronic heating. This is a heating system that uses water as a heat-transfer medium instead of air. Since water has a higher heat-bearing capacity than air, hydronic heaters are…
Yarraville Project
Photos from a job we completed in Yarraville recently. Sime Brava Slim BFR 30 E boiler, Honeywell T4 Thermostat, Henrad radiators all installed with our award winning service. One of the most popular types of heating systems in the country is hydronic heating. This type of system uses hot water for heating purposes. Water is…
Two BAD things about hydronic heating
1. Wall Space For most of in Australia we grew up with a ducted heating system. It was ok, warmed the house up good, but it was a bit noisy and blew dust around the house. When it was on you felt warm, maybe even a bit too warm. But when it turned off the…
The Heart of Every Hydronic System is ….
The Wall Thermostat Honeywell T4 NEST Gen III With effortless temperature control, simple temperature scheduling and levels of automated control, the T4 offers a level of intuitive usability customers expect from today’s technology. Large Clear Backlit Display Easy to Program Easy Access Battery Compartment Ideal for Hydronic Heating Systems The 3rd gen Nest Learning Thermostat…
Select The Right Sized Boiler
Before you can select a boiler, you will need to have a proper heat load calculation performed. We take the dimensions of the room including the ceiling height, insulation value along with window sizes and from there we calculate how many kilowatts (kW’s) are required to heat the room. Once each room has been calculated…
Customer comes home to Freezing Cold House!
It’s not a pleasant thought. You’ve just spent $10k on a new hydronic heating system. You come home on a Sunday evening and the heating won’t turn on. What do you do? Who do you call? Seriously, it’s Sunday evening. It’s not a pleasant thought. You’ve just spent $10k on a new hydronic heating system.…
Hydronic Heating Installers Melbourne – Sommerville Project
Hydronic Heating Installers Melbourne There are two main ways of heating an indoor space. First, you could use heated air to heat up the space. Secondly, you can use water, or steam, to evenly distribute heat around the building, in what is commonly referred to as hydronic heating. This type of system has many advantages…
Choosing the right boiler for your project
The boiler is the heart of every hydronic system. Normally connected to natural gas or LPG, the boiler efficiently heats the water which is then pumped around the closed circuit of hydronic heating pipes. In Australia the major brands available currently are, in alphabetical order, Baxi, Bosch, Immergas, Radiant and Sime. I’ve listed them in…
2015 – The Year Melbourne Froze!
Why we were glad to say goodbye to Melbourne’s winter weather Do you remember where you were living during winter in 2015? Maybe your were fortunate enough to be overseas! But what we experienced that winter was ridiculous. The city was blasted with icy winds, hail, downpours that could double as a natural disaster and…
Carlo Poletti Classic Art Valves
The Carlo Poletti Classic Art valve is unique and a rather beautiful valve that will complement many styles of radiator, on this project coupled with cast iron radiators. Valve Types Regulating (manual) Regulating valves are generally the most common type of radiator valve and they work in a very similar way to a tap.…