Sentinel's range of central heating water treatment products is now available through the EnergySmart Scheme. The scheme is run by the Creative Environmental Networks, a not-for-profit organisation that works with manufacturers and merchants to provide big discounts on home insulation and efficient heating systems for all private householders. Products are supplied through PTS branches nationwide, allowing approved installers to purchase products that increase heating system efficiency - such as condensing boilers, controls, pumps and water treatment products.
Sentinel has recently proved the close link between water quality in a system and that systems efficiency.
The independent Gas Tec report concluded that 'boiler replacement without system cleaning is ineffective at increasing system efficiency'.
As a result Sentinel products were included in the EnergySmart scheme to encourage installers to ensure that all heating systems having a replacement boiler added, are cleaned using Sentinel cleansing products such as X400, to ensure that the scale and sludge that builds up in an untreated system is flushed out.
An inhibitor product such as X100 must then be added to keep it in tip-top condition and to prevent the scale and sludge returning to the system.
An untreated system can see scale building up very quickly, particularly in a hard water area, which can see overall efficiencies reducing quickly and damage being done to heat exchangers, pumps and radiators.
Ned Gaine from CEN says: 'We are delighted to welcome Sentinel products into the scheme'.
'The Sentinel range has an impressive track record and the recent research activity has shown that there is a tangible benefit to energy efficiency through the use of their products'.
Sentinel's Neil Beaumont reiterates these sentiments and says it's important that Sentinel are recognised as a quality product range in terms of energy efficiency schemes: 'We've long been saying that water treatment products are a vital part of the 'energy efficiency package' in heating systems and the Gas Tec research has given us hard and fast evidence that that is the case'.
'Now specified by Part L of the building regulations too, there is no excuse for any competent installer not to clean and inhibit a system when he or she is replacing a boiler, or installing a new system.'
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