Scale of efficiency
August 1st 2007

After the success of last year's exhibition, Tapworks booked a stand at the Energy Event immediately. One enquiry the company received was from a specifier for a hotel project in a hard water area of the UK, looking for an answer to the problems associated with limescale in bathrooms. With the installation of a Tapworks North Star commercial water softener, the Mercure Holland House Hotel & Spa in Bristol has banished the problems of hard water. The softener specified has a capacity to soften 52,600 litres of water a day and a peak flow rate of 16.5 litres a second.

According to Government figures, scale can build up at 1.5mm every year and a leading trade association says that in hard water areas, just 1.6mm of scale in heating systems causes a 12% loss in heat transfer from the energy source – gas or electricity - to water.Tapworks says a 32% saving in running costs can be made by installing its unit.