Steam and heating boiler rental services

Steam and heating boiler rental services are becoming all the rage among the industrial and commercial sectors, where Watkins Hire is the market leader

Within the last few years, it has become more acceptable to rent anything from air compressors, chillers, generators, hand tools, lifting equipment, offices, storage, staff and test equipment.

Steam and heating boiler rental services are becoming all the rage among the industrial and commercial sectors, where Watkins Hire is the market leader: Watkins Hire enable businesses to deploy new boilers with the latest technology faster and cheaper.

On the surface, the benefits Watkins Hire offers seem compelling.

Instead of investing money to build and maintain a new boiler plant room, the customer can pay a fixed monthly fee to WHL who have in excess of 320 systems in place, this facilitates simplified budgeting.

Watkins Hire fixes the rental charges across the period of hire making the true cost inflation proof.

In 1997, at the Kyoto Summit on Climate Change, the EU signed up to an agreement to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 8% on 1990 levels by the year 2010.

The UK share was a commitment to reduce by 12.5% on 1990 levels by the year 2010.

Watkins Hire employs the latest burner technology with the use of Hamworthy Combustion Alphalink and Saacke DDCC combustion control, to give their client base the benefit of reduced emissions to comply with current and forthcoming legislation, and of course fuel savings are utilised by the client to offset against the rental charges.

Domestically the Government has set itself a target well in excess agreed at the Kyoto Summit, to reduce emissions by 20% by the year 2010.

The largest cost of owning a boiler is the fuel costs, to further assist client to offset the hire charges and help with the climate levy charges, Watkins Hire our offering economisers for new long term rental contracts, the fuel savings being achieved vary from 3 to 5% on a 10000-lb/hr (4500-kg/hr) steam boiler MCR firing on oil 24 hours a day at today prices (24p per litre) over a 10 year period would equate to a staggering GBP840,000 to GBP1.4 million, which is far in excess of the rental charges.

'Watkins Hire recently supplied a military base with 29 systems to replace a coal fired centralised boiler plant on a 5 year rental contract, the site had 23 miles of delivery pipe work, with considerable water and heat losses, the savings of fuel cost alone were in the region of GBP120,000, and considerable reduction in emissions and water losses'.

Another major benefit of a rental contract with a company like Watkins Hire is the fact that many of the life cycle costs are incorporated into the rental charges.

These include statutary annual inspections of a steam boiler, the 5 yearly GN4, major failures such as furnace failures, re tubing and acid cleaning, all of which saves a considerable cost.

Watkins Hire transfers the costs of plant failure away from the end-user, with such a comprehensive fleet they can change over units in a matter of hours.

Watkins Hire have chosen world leaders in boiler control and burner technology, such as Spirax Sarco, Nuway, Hamworthy, Saacke, Gestra: but the choice of the actual boiler manufacturer is left to the end-user.

The industrial equipment rental market has been steadily expanding for a numbers of years, with companies like Aggreko, Hewdens and now Watkins Hire the end-user can rent all their utility and plant room equipment, the future is looking like further growth in the rental market place.

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