Shropshire businessman Mr Grocott, of Gro-Continental, recently joined the "heatwave" - along with many family members.

The heat pump for Mr Grocott's property was supplied by Nu-Heat Underfloor and Renewables, a company with expertise in the design and supply of ground source, air source and exhaust air heat pump systems as well as underfloor heating and solar thermal.

The installations carried out for the family who live in off gas properties comprised a ground source heat pump with underfloor for Ray's home, two air source heat pumps with underfloor and solar for David's home and a ground source heat pump with underfloor and solar for Linda's home.
Ray's home is a new-build, the last property to be built on the Prees housing development, one of the first developments to benefit from heat pump systems (and installed by Wilson Plumbing & Heating). Ray's property is quite unusual; he could only get planning permission for a bungalow, so most of the lower half of the house is built below ground. Wilson Plumbing & Heating worked with Nu-Heat to design a heating system based around a NIBE air source heat pump. The atypical set up of the house required a high / low temperature split as the ground floor needed to be cooler than the first floor, the opposite to usual!
Linda's home was set to be renovated, and she was clear that she wanted a sustainable heating system. A NIBE ground source heat pump was specified by Nu-Heat, as there was plenty of land for to lay the ground loops.
At David's home, a ground source heat pump had previously been installed by an electrical company, and was not working efficiently. The solution put forward by Nu-Heat comprised the linking of two Hitachi YUTAKI ASHP in series, one to feed the main house and the other to feed the remainder of the house and the annex. The integrated system included underfloor heating and solar thermal. There was no record of this linking having been achieved before, so Wilson Plumbing & Heating approached the installation with great care to ensure that the system would achieve optimum performance. Installation was carried out during the summer months so there was no disruption to heating requirements. The hot water changeover was completed within a day.
As this system was so unique, the handover was carried out over a number of days; the customer was present when the set-up was undertaken and was given comprehensive instructions on how to use and programme the system. After installation, Wilson Plumbing & Heating returned to the property on a few occasions to make final tweaks.

We have just completed the installation of a 3 phase 22kw NIBE 1330 ground source heat pump. This system has 2000mt of ground collector and 800ltr of stored hot water in conjunstion with solar thermal panels.

The picture demonstates the extensive plant room installed for this project. The customer has allocated a specifc plant room area for all the materials required.

We have also installed underfloor heating for the ground and first floor along with the hot and cold pipework system.

This farmhouse conversion was specified to have an installation of twin air source heat pumps due to the property size. Nu-Heat Underfloor and Renewables designed the heat pump and underfloor heating system.

We installed Stiebel Eltron WPL 18kw dual single phase air source heat pumps along with the associated hot water cyclinder and buffer tank assembly.

We installed 180m2 of underfloor heating pipework on the ground floor in liquid screed and 210m2 of the Nu-Heat Clippa-plate system for the first and second floors along with 4 manifolds.