Holiday Lodges benefit from some Flex love

Dalby Holiday Lodges called on pipe specialists Flexenergy to take charge of the distribution system for domestic hot water and central heating at their holiday cottage complex in East Yorkshire, using their eco-friendly Flexalen 600 material.

The all year round complex comprises a main house and four lodges equipped with central heating, double glazing and all furnished to a high standard.

The site owner, chartered environmentalist Andrew Cowley, was looking to replace the individual LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) heating systems within each cottage and in the main house with technology that would not only be less expensive to run, but also eco-friendly. So he opted to change to a central wood-burning Biomass Boiler, with heat exchangers in each cottage and in the main house, with the help of Flexenergy.

The Flexalen 600 pre-insulated pipe system installed was the ideal technology for this situation being lightweight, highly flexible and easy to bend around corners even at low temperatures. It also has a water tight bond between the corrugated outer pipe and the polyolefine insulation, and satisfies the requirements for sustainable construction.

As a result of the new system, the holiday site is delivering savings of over £3,000 per year in heating costs, with each of the lodges now supplied with 40 kilowatts of eco-friendly power in place of the individual 28 kilowatt LPG boilers.

Andrew is very pleased with the performance of his biomass heating scheme - and particularly with the minimal heat loss being achieved as a result of the Flexalen pipe network. He said: "I chose Flexenergy for the quality of their product and the flexibility of their design service and I am delighted with the results.

"In addition to the cost savings, we are now able to control centrally the temperature in each cottage and there is the added safety aspect of just running one wood-burning boiler instead of individual LPG boilers within the cottages."