This family home in Hampshire underwent a full refurbishment, with improvements to insulation and a move away from its old oil fired central heating system. A Greener Alternative designed the system and installed two 8kW NIBE air source heat pumps working in conjunction with underfloor heating, skirting heating and radiators to take on the heating and hot water requirements of the property.
To discuss the viability of retro-fitting an air source heat pump in your home call us now 01273 455 695.
Air Source Heat Pump For Retirement Units
A Greener Alternative were asked to design and install an Air Source Heat Pump and associated components into two new build retirement units in East Sussex. The NIBE F2040 heat pump is situated on the external wall of the property and provides all the requirement for heating and hot water in the home.
With the heat pump installed the home has a highly efficient heating system and low energy consumption with the 8kW heat pump carrying an A+++ Energy Efficiency Class.
Solar thermal for heating swimming pool
The owners of this house situated in West Sussex found they were spending large amounts of money heating their outdoor swimming pool and wanted a more sustainable solution.
A Greener Alternative supplied and installed an array of solar thermal panels on the roof of the main property to take care of the heating requirements of the pool and also to supplement the hot water in the main property.
The owners now enjoy hugely reduced heating bills and a longer pool season over the summer!
This install took place at a detached family home in Hindhead, Surrey where the property owners were looking to move away from their existing oil fueled heating system and expressed an interest in biomass as an alternative.
A Greener Alternative specified a 35kW KWB Easyfire pellet boiler with an 800 litre buffer vessel to take care of all the heating and hot water requirements in the family home.
Several options were discussed for a potential boiler location and the garden offered plenty of space to create a new structure to house the boiler, buffer and pellet store and the homeowners expressed an interest in pursuing this route.
A purpose built boiler room shed was constructed in the garden with enough room to house the boiler, buffer and a bespoke pellet store that was designed and constructed to fit within the shed whilst maximising pellet storage space. The Storz hose connectors can be seen at the rear of the shed where fuel delivery hoses are connected and pellets are blown into the store.
The family now enjoy a seamless changeover from their old oil system but with the benefit of lower costing, carbon neutral fuel.
This install took place at a detached family home in Hindhead, Surrey, where the property owners were looking to move away from their existing oil fueled heating system and expressed an interest in biomass as an alternative.
A Greener Alternative specified a 35kW KWB Easyfire pellet boiler with an 800 litre buffer vessel to take care of all the heating and hot water requirements in the family home.
Several options were discussed for a potential boiler location and the garden offered plenty of space to create a new structure to house the boiler, buffer, and pellet store, and the homeowners expressed an interest in pursuing this route.
A purpose built boiler room shed was constructed in the garden with enough room to house the boiler, buffer, and a bespoke pellet store that was designed and constructed to fit within the shed whilst maximising pellet storage space. The Storz hose connectors can be seen at the rear of the shed, where fuel delivery hoses are connected and pellets are blown into the store.
The family now enjoys a seamless changeover from their old oil system but with the benefit of lower costing, carbon neutral fuel.
 
 
 
 
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This is an install of a 75 kW KWB Pelletfire biomass boiler. The boiler house includes a 10.5 ton pellet store, which is a big bag option, this allows for enhanced quantity within the space. Two 1500 litre thermal stores provide the home with all of its hot water and heating needs. A Greener Alternative decided to site the boiler in an outhouse building, utilising an existing space and cutting down the installation costs. The biomass system is connected to the main house via an underground Rahau pipe. This has high insulation properties and minimises heat loss. The pellet store is located in a section of the outbuilding adjacent to the boiler house. A hole was formed, and an auger was fitted to transport the pellets through to the boiler.
Key facts
Project cost: £43,652
RHI payments over 20 years: £201,254
Estimated fuel saving over 20 years: £100,000
  
   
This is the traditional cream Klover Smart 120. It is the first pellet cooker to be approved on the MCS approved appliance register. This means you can cook, provide heat for your home and hot water, whilst receiving RHI payments. This installation was a simple process, the customer decided to situate the Klover in a utility room and utilise the cooker element as a back up to their conventional oven in the kitchen. This Pellet boiler has allowed the household to move away from oil burning and the unpredictable price of fuel bills.
RHI payment over 7 years: £20,566.00
Fuel saving over 7 years: £7,472.00
This rural 4 bedroom home is a typical example of a domestic installation of a pellet fuel boiler system. The pellet fuel acts as a direct replacement to oil and behaves in the same way, with fillings simply completed by the roadside through a blown delivery. The property owners, although living rurally, do not have a lifestyle suited to using log or chip so pellet is an ideal option. The heat load of this property is typical for a property of this size and period.
A Greener Alternative fitted a 22kw KWB Easyfire pellet boiler to provide hot water and heating to the main building. As you can see from the photos, the thermal store, pellet store and boiler are all located in different sites, which is a good solution to this particular heating system, but not entirely typical.
The boiler is housed in an outbuilding, 10 metres away from the property. The pellet store is a 3.5 tonne stand alone, which is hidden away behind the outbuilding. The thermal store is located in an outside cupboard attached to the property.
RHI payment over 20 years: £186,425
Fuel saving over 20 years: £185,425
This rural farm wanted to reduce their oil bills, so opted to take advantage of the government incentives by switching to biomass heating. They chose wood chip, due to the sustainable source of chip in the local area and the minimal. This site required a consistently high heat load, which is where wood chip works best.
A 110 kW Froling T4 chip boiler was selected for its clean burn and high efficiencies. The boiler house was set in a barn adjacent to the chip store. The chips were auger fed into the boiler through the adjoining wall. The thermal store is a 850L buffer and serves the farm house with hot water and heating.
RHI Payment over 7 years: £42,067
Fuel Saving over 7 years:£22,633
This property had access to woodland and logs, which meant a log boiler was the obvious choice, due to minimal fuel costs and sustainable carbon neutral credentials. However the property had no usable internal space for an internal log boiler and thermal store. So we decided to overcome the issue by utilising the outside space and installing an external log boiler. The perfect solution was to use a 45kW Central E-Classic outdoor log boiler, due to its weather proofing and stand –alone design providing a flexible location for the installation.
The advantage to using this type of log boiler, is essentially all components are housed within the boiler as pictured, which offers a compact solution to log burning. The Central E-Classic has an integrated thermal jacket, which means there is no need for a thermal store. The boiler is connected to the internal heating connection via an insulated pipe running over ground, however in many installations we run insulated underground piping.
The E-Classic requires a manual load and can take logs of up to of 750mm in length. A full load will typically produce enough heat and hot water demands for 4-5 days in the summer and 2-3 days in the winter. The Central requires cleaning once every 6-7 weeks.
The end result of the installation provides a fuss free biomass option, which has no impact on the internal spacing with a home. The boiler can be located anywhere outdoors so provides a flexible solution to log burning for hot water and heating.
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