How British Standards and Approved Document Guidance Continue to Help Raise Industry Installation Practices for Competent Person Scheme Registrants
Tag: Technical
The importance of chimney design
Every solid fuel heating appliance installed in the UK will be connected to a suitably sized chimney system, to allow for products of combustion created during the burning of solid and biomass fuels to escape from the appliance and be safely emitted to outside. For all combustion appliances, this process of combustion product dispersion is Read More…
Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery systems
Mike Harvey, HETAS Training and Technical Support Manager offers advice to ensure that your appliance maintains an adequate air supply in all possible conditions.
HUSP | One year on
The HETAS Unsafe Situations Proceduce (HUSP) was introduced in November 2018 and has become quickly established as the industry recognised “Unsafe Situations Procedure” for Solid Fuel and Biomass.
BS8303 standard update
BS8303 standard update In the latest HETAS Technical Bulletin we updated our registrants on the imminent changes to BS8303. In this article we highlight some of the key changes to the standard that will impact upon registered installers. Over recent years, the industry through the UK BSI standards committee RHE/28 have been working hard in Read More…
Technical Q&A
Technical Q and A In association with The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), HETAS will be holding an installer technical question and answer session on the 16th August. The technical Q and A session will take place on Thursday 16th August from 4:30pm to 7pm and will provide you with the opportunity to pose your Read More…
Installation Sub Committee
Installation Sub Committee Formation The HETAS Installation Sub-Committee (HISC) has been formulated as a mirror group to the HETAS Technical Committee (HTC), to allow for the discussion, evaluation and progression of installation specific technical issues, challenges and projects, and to help form resolutions, as well as increase communication and support between HETAS and its registered Read More…
Working with Building Control
Working with Building Control (Appendix A) as part of Approved Document J A recent roundtable hosted by HETAS revealed a number of issues that are affecting both the biomass and wood-burning stoves markets. One of the key areas of discussion was the issues surrounding the ‘signing off’ or ‘notification’ of solid fuel & biomass installations and Read More…