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I had a productive meeting with Kinetics Group today and have decided to use them as the main contractor for this project. Kinetics provide a variety of services to social housing providers and are already a preferred contractor for Warwick District Council which means that we are building on already established relationships. Kinetics are able [...]
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I have been thinking hard about the best fuel feeding solution for the wood pellet boiler. Initially I had intended to fit a fully automated system where pellets would be fed into the boiler from a large outside fuel store. Main main reasons for this were to enable bulk fuel deliveries (which helps to keep [...]
BSRIA would like to revisit to try and capture some better quality thermal images. For this they have requested that the tenants switch their heating onto full for a constant 24hours before they come to take the images. This is all in aid of acheiving a 10°C temperature difference between inside and out which is [...]
I have made a good contact with Bowater Building Products who I am very pleased to confirm will be supplying the windows and doors for RIFF. Bowater are a long established PVC-U extrusion company making windows and doors alongside a range of other building products. They will be showcasing their new to market “Smart Sash” [...]
Another busy day onsite with various contractors meeting up for a tour and Q&A session. This will enable them to firm up quotes, hopefully with everything included! Once again a big thanks to the tenants for being so accomodating and for providing valuable input regarding finishing details etc. We hope to be in a position [...]
Received news from BSRIA today that the thermal images they took last month did not come out very well and they would like to revisit the site to try again. My understanding is that for these images to work the temperature difference between inside and outside of the property has to be at least 10°C. [...]
Wattbox today provided us with their confirmed proposal and quotation. They will be providing the Wattbox heating controller together with the data aquisition services as required for the montioring programme. I am very pleased to be able to include Wattbox in this project and look forward to seeing how this innovative heating controller works in [...]
I received the first confirmed quote from an installer today which I will have to review alongside the others once I receive them.
We had a very busy day onsite at Beausale today as several different contractors met with me onsite for a tour and Q&A session. This will give them a chance to gather the information they need to provide a firm quote for the refurbishement works. I was a little disappointed that not all of the [...]
Today saw the official launch of Retrofit for the Future and you can read the official press release from the Technology Strategy Board here. Encraft also wrote our own press release which you can read here (PDF 464kB). RIFF is not the only Retrofit for the Future project that Encraft are involved with. We are [...]
