Optimum Heating

Roadwater Village Hall was constructed in 1928 and is therefore of solid wall construction. It is located in the Exmoor National Park conservation area. The hall has level access from the main road through the village with the door leading into the main hall. This is actually the first floor of the building however as it is built into a slope and so the crèche, snooker room, youth club and toilets are on the lower level which can be accessed via the car park at the back of the building.

The hall is used regularly on weekday evenings and is often hired out for parties at the weekends. There is little usage during the day. There is interest in increasing the use so that it can be an adult education centre too but at the moment it is too cold and unpleasant to have such a use and was never really warm enough in winter to be used comfortably.

We installed a 48kw P4 pellet boiler and buffer tank in the old lower floor boiler house with a pellet store fabricated in the adjoining store room.

For optimum system performance we installed 2 separate time and temperature controlled heating zones, being the upper and lower floors.

Bearing in mind the large rooms to heat up and the need to protect the public from high water temperatures, we installed fan convector heaters (FCUS) in the hall, backstage, youth club, snooker room and the crèche, while the smaller rooms were heated with low surface temperature (LST) radiators.

Pellet fuel is to be delivered by bulk lorry and blown into the basement fuel silo. We expect each delivery to be approximately 10m3 with refills every 3-4 months.

This boiler installation has been sized to meet 100% of demand.

This scheme was funded by Exmoor National Park.