SAVE WATER & ENERGY

As all businesses experience record energy bills across the UK, now is a perfect time to look at the amount of warmed water we use in our business with a view to reduce usage, saving energy and saving money.

Neoperl UK is a manufacturer of water stream devices and flow regulators. They are precision-made devices that can be inserted at the end of a tap spout or upstream of a shower outlet, to reduce and regulate the water flow without reducing performance.

As water pressure fluctuates throughout the country, it’s impossible to produce a tap or valve shower to work with the same efficiency in every commercial kitchen or hotel bedroom. Manufacturers therefore produce new taps and shower heads with optimal performance to work their best across all pressure situations. Now the flow can be tailored to a situation by retrofitting aerators and flow regulators to save water. There’s no point in having a strong flow rate if the tap is only used for washing teeth and hands or to have a shower that literally splashes out of the enclosure. These retrofit products allow the performance to be checked on site and adjusted to suit, ensuring a comfortable and suitable flow is reached. This is particularly important where rows of washbasins or multiple showers are prevalent. A Pressure Compensating Aerator (PCA) or flow regulator will help distribute the water more evenly throughout the building to mitigate flow issues from the effects of pressure fluctuations.

Shower Flow Control

A standard European shower head will produce around 18 litres of water per minute at 3 bar of pressure. A flow regulator like these could reduce this to a comfortable flow and dependant on the specified flow rate, save thousands of litres of water per year. If less water is used, then less water needs to be heated, so saving energy.

BATHROOM TAP PRESSURE COMPENSATING AERATORS (PCA’s)

A tap aerator adds air to the water flow creating a soft comfortable stream that feels plentiful and prevents splashing. A choice of flow shapes can be selected, and it’s a 5-minute job to replace the incumbent anti-clogging or stream control device in place, with a flow