The next rumor I tracked down concerned the Zehnder ComfoBox, a combination appliance that includes a ground-source heat pump, hydronic heat distribution system, domestic water heater, and HRV. Zehnder's U.S. representative is Barry …. Ventilation requires small air flows, while the delivery of space heat and cooling usually requires larger air flows — making the […]

Building services supplier Brymec has appointed Martin Spowage as a key account manager. He has extensive experience and knowledge of customer care in the supply and distribution business, having previously worked for 24 years for distributor BSS, first as a sales supervisor and then as branch supervisor at BSS Lewes, specialising in pump sizing, plastic […]

Heating and plumbing supplies specialist Altecnic is strengthening its market-leading position by restructuring its trade sales team and recruiting two new area sales managers. The two new additions to Altecnic’s 16-strong team add to the diverse and vast experience of the Trade Sales Team gained in a variety of roles in the plumbing and heating […]

Flame Heating Group founder John Savage has written to the leaders of the three main political parties urging them to scrap the 5% VAT rate on domestic energy as soon as the country departs the European Union. The managing director of the North East’s fastest growing heating and plumbing merchant argues that abolishing the tax […]

Sales figures for the final quarter of 2019 published today in the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI) round off a disappointing year for the sector, with a third consecutive quarter of negative growth. There were six less trading days in Q4 compared with Q3, but a comparison of average sales per day (which removes […]

There are two main types of fire sprinkler systems: Multipurpose systems are integrated with the already existing plumbing systems, while standalone systems have their own plumbing. Multipurpose systems typically have lower costs because …

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