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Bio-liquids pilot scheme planned
Bio-liquids for domestic heating will soon be rolled out in a pilot scheme for around 300 households, according to Barry Gregory, chairman of OFTEC
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What’s the Green Deal for technicians?
As renewable energy initiatives continue to hit the headlines, Oil Installer takes a look at the Green Deal and examines what it actually means for ...
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Get G-One accredited
Grant UK’s G-One accreditation scheme covers air source heat pumps, solar thermal, oil-fired and wood pellet boilers.* To become G-One accredited, installers must successfully ...
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Installers’ DVD champions renewables
Hands-on installers Watson and Andy share their experiences with other installers
Heating and plumbing engineers, Andy Buchan and Watson Carlill, have released a renewables DVD ...
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Moorland grows its boiler service division
Mark Quelch , a member of Moorland Fuels’ servicing division
At a time when many fuel distributors are abandoning boiler servicing, citing cost and time issues, ...
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Lancashire firm grows business
M H Cragg has been serving the north west for over four decades
Established in 1972, specialist heating engineers, M H Cragg and Sons, has more ...
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Highlighting the need for ‘a good, efficient boiler’
Chris Huhne, former secretary of state for energy and climate change
On a recent visit to the headquarters of the Worcester, Bosch Group, Chris Huhne, ...
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The argument for a new boiler scrappage scheme
The first of 120,000 inefficient boilers gets scrapped under the government’s 2010 scrappage scheme. There are still 3.5 million G-rated, or older, boilers in use across the ...
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Ordering made easy
The new Hytek website with improved search facility
Hytek has a brand new website to make purchasing items online, quick and easy. Once an ...
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Burner partnership
The MAX OIL burner, specified by TR Engineering
Ecoflam has supplied its MAX OIL burners to TR Engineering for its Trianco range of Contractor SE ...
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Intelligent oil monitoring from Harlequin
Find out how many days fuel is left in the tank with the new i-Track monitor from Harlequin
The brand new iTank range from Harlequin ...
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Kingspan improve customer communication
The new SMS text message service from Kingspan
Kingspan Environmental’s SonicSignalman electronic oil-level monitoring system now has a new SMS feature, which will allow ...
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An app for oil nozzle output
EOGB has launched an oil nozzle output calculator app for android and iPhone. Based on Danfoss nozzles, the £2.99 app calculates burner and boiler ...
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CO – beware the “silent killer”…
OFTEC Inspection Services has recently investigated two cases of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
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Key appointments announced at OFTEC
OFTEC technical director designate, Paul Rose
Paul Rose has been promoted to technical director designate. Paul has been part of the OFTEC technical team ...
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Bioliquid campaign gathers pace
OFTEC director general, Jeremy Hawksley, campaigning for bioliquids to be included in the RHI
OFTEC is at the centre of a parliamentary lobbying campaign to ...
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Concern over Green Deal
OFTEC has expressed concern over whether the new Green Deal will sufficiently address the problems of fuel poverty in rural areas. In a written submission ...
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State-of-the-art training at Worcester Bosch
Managing director, Carl Arntzen opens the new training academy
Worcester, Bosch Group has reaffirmed its commitment to installer, specifier and merchant training with the opening ...
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Award for ground heat
Courtesy of Plumb Center, Ground Heat picked up a £10,000 prize. Plumb Center’s director of renewables, Simon Allan (l) and Countryfile presenter, Julia Bradbury present ...
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Made in China
Meeting ET Solar staff at the company’s offices in Nanjing, China, Oil Installer’s editor, Jane Hughes, 5th from left
Sixty per cent of ...
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Every cloud has a silver lining
Tony Norris, owner of Arn Heating
When former Tincknells Fuels driver, Tony Norris, suffered a stroke in September 2010, rather than letting it get him down, ...
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Heating a castle the Firebird way
Walworth Castle, near Darlington, resplendent with its new Firebird 70 radiator heating system
In 1981, Walworth Castle, near Darlington, which can trace its history as far ...
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Grant Vortex – the green choice for oil heating
Grant’s new boiler house models are ideal for locations that are difficult to access
With well over a million UK homes using oil as ...
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When the going gets tough
Like most other industries, oil has had its challenges this year. Oil Installer spoke to installers across the UK to find out what had been ...