The Heritage Group was most
surprised and pleased to be informed about the heating
firm Mid Ulster
Heating Services Ltd located in Northern
Ireland who not only maintain historical Perkins HPHW
sealed heating systems, but also have the workshops,
equipment and expertise to manufacture, assemble and
install the banks of pipework coils that comprise the
furnace of the heating system. The furnace coils are the most vulnerable part of the pipework system and after 100 years of exposure to very high combustion temperatures can eventually fatigue and fail. The banks of pipework that will form the new furnace coils are assembled in their workshop to match the number and shape of the circuits that comprise the arrangement of the existing furnace pipework layout. The heating system is then re-commissioned and returned to working order. |
The design of the Perkins
refurbished pipework system is not compromised in anyway
and continues to operate with
gravity water circulation as was
first intended when it was installed over 100 years ago. The vast majority of the Perkins systems they maintain and repair where necessary, date back to the late Victorian period and have been installed in churches of various denominations throughout Ireland. The Belfast firm of Musgrave & Co Ltd were major manufacturers of Perkins HPHW heating systems and installed them throughout the UK from their various regional offices. Many owners whose buildings are heated by a Perkins system installed during the Victorian period can easily believe that should their heating system develop a problem or fault then they will be unable to have it repaired, and will therefore consider having to contemplate the expense of a new heating installation. However, as can be seen from the photographs on this webpage that this is not necessarily the case. Heating firms can still be found that have the facilities to carry out repairs and/or partial replacement to a Perkins system. |
List of Churches with
Perkins Heating Systems
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