Four-times winner of the AA Campsite of the Year accolade, Seaview International Holiday Park at St Austell in Cornwall boasts exceptionally high-quality shower blocks with a supply of never-ending hot water, courtesy of Rinnai’s condensing Infinity HDC1500i continuous flow propane water heaters. As a result, the holiday park is seeing significant savings on fuel since it changed over from its previous stored hot water system.
Overview of Seaview International Holiday Park
The five-star holiday park, which provides pitches for tourers through to luxury lodges, extends over 30 acres and is just 10 minutes’ walk from sandy Hemmick Beach. For its touring customers, who enjoy sea and countryside views from most pitches, the provision of first-class showering facilities is of paramount importance. Seaview International has been awarded a series of Loo of the Year Awards, ensuring guests that the showers will never run out of hot water, even at the busiest times, thanks to Rinnai Infinity water heaters.
Installation and Benefits of Rinnai Infinity Water Heaters
Rinnai had been in contact with World Team, owner of Seaview International under its Southwest Holiday Parks umbrella, for some time and quoted for a new shower block. A chance visit at the beginning of last season coincided with the breakdown of the old hot water storage system. The wheels were swiftly put into motion, and local installer MR Parsons St Austell was called on to install four Rinnai Infinity HDC1500 internal condensing bio-lpg ready water heaters, which were delivered next day ready to be run on LPG.
It is now over 18 months since the installation took place, and during that time, the Park has seen a considerable reduction in running costs and an improvement in the delivery of hot water provisions, ensuring customer satisfaction with holidaymakers - more than 1500 at any one time in peak season.
Advantages of Propane and BioLPG Water Heaters
The Rinnai Infinity gives a constant flow of safe hot water at the chosen temperature. Operated by smart inbuilt controls, this ensures that the water heaters deliver temperature-accurate hot water, eliminating the risk of scalding. The intelligent Rinnai water heaters ensure that there are no sudden changes in water temperature via the smart inbuilt controllers and thermistors. For example, in direct-to-outlet systems, if somebody is showering at, say, 42°C, and a tap is turned on elsewhere, the temperature will not vary.
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Customer Feedback and Savings
According to Martin Parsons, the holiday park’s decision to install the Rinnai units instead of replacing them with a like-for-like storage system immediately started paying dividends: “It was just getting on for six weeks since the installation that I spoke to the owner of Seaview and was told that they were already seeing savings. Like many busy holiday home sites, they tend to top up with LPG, and apparently, the delivery guy said he couldn’t find room for more than a 20 per cent top-up. So already, the holiday park was saving money.”
Seaview’s Sarah Goodwin adds:
“We have had no complaints about the showers. There’s been no running out of hot water, the temperature is perfect, and the hot water flows as soon as the shower is turned on. As well as showers, we also have three baths in the block and no problems at all. In fact, people from the luxury Paddock area have been coming down to use the showers in the new block. We are now hoping to update the Paddock area shower block and put Rinnai propane water heaters in there, too.
“As for savings, I can’t give you a detailed breakdown of figures as we have the swimming pool and other areas served by the same LPG tank, but I can say when the LPG tanker came to top up, we only needed to add a minimum amount, much less than the old system. And obviously, the great thing with the Rinnai bio-lpg ready water heaters is when they are not being used, they will also be saving on energy because they will not be heating up any stored water.”
Conclusion
Both Rinnai Infinity HDC1500 internal and external propane water heaters give an energy performance of 105% net efficiency. They are easily manifolded, with the added advantage that with a common flue header, there is no need to knock through walls to accommodate separate flue headers (or give up valuable space to install a cylinder).
“The Rinnai condensing propane water heaters are very easy to install, and if I spent the rest of my working life hanging Rinnai water heaters on walls, I would be a happy man,” concludes Parsons.
