St Peter's church, Terwick
St Peter's church, Terwick
The service on Christmas Day went very well and the heating was much admired and enjoyed! When I turned on the heaters at about 9.10am the temperature in the church was 10 degrees (much warmer than normal, of course) and when the service finished it was 15.5 degrees.
Who said it doesn't warm the building as well?!!!
On a normal December day, of course, it would not have been quite so good I am sure. Anyway, thank you for enabling us to have a warm, worry-free day; no descending the boiler room steps and dangling down a sump to change the water level in the boiler room. What a joy!
Now we just need the electrician to come back and finish off and then we can consider the decommissioning of the boiler room and the removal of the oil tank and then the whole job will be done. Yippee!
The service on Christmas Day went very well and the heating was much admired and enjoyed! When I turned on the heaters at about 9.10am the temperature in the church was 10 degrees (much warmer than normal, of course) and when the service finished it was 15.5 degrees.
Who said it doesn't warm the building as well?!!!
On a normal December day, of course, it would not have been quite so good I am sure. Anyway, thank you for enabling us to have a warm, worry-free day; no descending the boiler room steps and dangling down a sump to change the water level in the boiler room. What a joy!
Now we just need the electrician to come back and finish off and then we can consider the decommissioning of the boiler room and the removal of the oil tank and then the whole job will be done. Yippee!
Lady Nixon, Churchwarden
Lady Nixon, Churchwarden
Warming your congregation, not heating the building
Fabric Commissions guiding principle No. 8
Getting to this future will take time and can only move at the pace feasible for each church
The progress will be limited by the affordability of the equipment, the price of electricity vs gas, the existing supplies and electrics of the church, its listing, and many other factors. An options appraisal of some kind is vital. For some churches, having fully assessed their options, there may currently be no feasible solution other than replacing gas-with-gas or even, in exceptional cases, oil-with-oil, but they can try to be ready for a future retro-fit when technology and the grid has progressed.
How Cooltouch Heaters can help
Cooltouch Heaters can be installed in batches as the PCC has the funds to pay for them. We would never recommend that all pews in a church are heated since on most Sundays only a few would be occupied. Once the initial electrical wiring is installed to the pews the PCC has control over when pews are heated to cope with weddings etc.