Polymer pipework manufacturer REHAU is advising against ‘improvised’ installations for so-called ‘remote’ heat pump installations, in order to avoid low-quality installations.
Following the Climate Change Committee (CCC)’s Progress Report to Parliament stating the UK is lagging in its building decarbonisation efforts, REHAU is calling on the Government to increase heat pump uptake by reducing the ‘spark gap’.
Guttering solutions from Marley Alutec have been installed as part of a refurbishment project at Aqueduct Cottage in Derbyshire. Traditional Half Round 125mm guttering and the Tudor 76mm downpipe system were specified in Heritage Black.
The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in June, reveal that builders’ merchants’ value sales were down -9.0% in April 2023 compared to the same month in 2022.