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. 9
Consider a wide range of options including non-fossil-fuel-based heating
In keeping with our commitment to radically reducing the Church’s greenhouse gas emissions, churches should be expected to have at least carefully considered the option of moving away from fossil-fuel based heating (gas and oil boilers) towards electric-based heating (such as air- or ground-source heat pumps, pew heaters, and farinfra-red radiant heaters), with these being powered by ‘green’ electricity. Other options to be considered include hybrid boilers, which combine a heat pump and a conventional boiler, and – if well implemented - biomass.
How Cooltouch Heaters can help
Cooltouch heaters are a low energy solution to the problem of providing warmth for a congregation. In a typical church the heat required would be 150W per person.
We are at present working with an architect who is looking at having solar panels with battery storage installed. With a 15kW solar array and about 500 kWh energy use per month there should be an income of around £80 / month from the system.