Rinnai’s continuous flow propane water heaters have been installed at the award-winning Hillcroft Park, set in the beautiful Ullswater Valley. This park offers year-round holiday accommodation to suit every taste and pocket. Hillcroft Park, located above the pretty lakeside village of Pooley Bridge, offers traditional camping, camping pods, luxury lodges, and holiday homes.
Recently, the site, owned and operated by the Heath family, added a new visitor pavilion and shower block to enhance the existing facilities. Five Rinnai 1200i continuous flow bio-lpg ready water heaters were installed in a cascade design to easily meet any peak demand. The 1200i delivers up to 35 litres of usable hot water per minute. The entire system is powered by LPG and ready for Bio-LPG when the renewable molecule is available. All Rinnai condensing water heaters used at sites that are off the mains gas supply are supplied LPG-ready.
The hot water delivery system at Hillcroft Park incorporates a secondary return utilizing Rinnai pure controls and common flue headers on the propane water heaters to streamline the flue configuration. The site focuses on sustainability and energy savings, employing electronic sequencing to optimize system performance. These smart sequencing controls will only fire additional units when more outlets are opened, ensuring energy is used only when needed.
The site is also no stranger to celebrities. Earlier this year, the much-loved comedian Johnny Vegas returned to Hillcroft Park to open the impressive new facilities block. Hillcroft Park became Johnny’s Lakeland ‘Home from Home’ for six weeks in 2017 during filming for the BBC series ‘Home from Home,’ which appeared on BBC1. Johnny opened the brand-new facilities building, including a shower block that must be one of the most impressive in the UK for camping bathing facilities. Many of the fixtures and fittings would not be amiss in a luxury bathroom. Campers also enjoy panoramic Lakeland scenes thoughtfully installed within the facilities, as well as a custom-made Lakeland soundscape of dawn chorus, sheep, and, of course, water.
At Hillcroft Park, life takes on a slower pace – a throwback to those carefree childhood holidays. While you can connect to the world wide web while you’re with us, we encourage you to ditch the digital, disconnect, and discover simpler pleasures like a walk up the fell, a dip in the lake followed by a family feast, or a quiet pint and a breathtaking sunset to the sound of birdsong.
“The only time you are using energy is when there is a demand. In other words, these propane ready water heaters are only burning gas when a tap or shower is being run. Design improvements by Rinnai have increased heat efficiency of its hot-water appliances from 80% to 95%, while decreasing gas consumption by around 14%,”
Gerard Gulliver for Rinnai
The Rinnai HDC 1200i water heater unit uses heat exchanger technology to allow high capacity from mains pressure, thereby guaranteeing all the hot water needed, when it is needed on demand. As well as high capacities, the Rinnai unit has lower greenhouse emissions because of the new reduced NOx burner technology.
Available in both internal and external versions, the HDC1200i gives end users 7% net efficiency* because the condensing process delivers up to 97% thermal efficiency, translating to significant energy savings compared to standard tankless water heaters. All of this makes the HDC1200i continuous flow hot water system at cost effective solution for leisure sites.
The HDC1200i is also renewables-ready (suitable for use as a temperature booster for solar thermal and heat-pump as well as been a bio-lpg ready water heater) and can be easily configured in a manifold arrangement, ensuring they will never run out of hot water, whatever the demand. As long as electricity, water, and gas supplies are connected, hot water is available when the hot water taps are open.
A DIP switch enables pinpoint temperature setting, and for safety, the over-temperature protection will switch off the heater should the water temperature exceed by 3°C above its set-point.
In real terms, swapping from a hot water storage system to a continuous flow hot water system can save a site several kW a day which equates to a lot of money a year at current prices.
To find out more about BioLPG visit https://www.calor.co.uk/biolpg.
