{"id":2033,"date":"2016-10-15T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:39:25","slug":"update-on-our-heating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/update-on-our-heating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on our heating system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Failure of Heating System – Arrangements for Winter 2016\/17<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"church\"<\/a>The Drugasar gas convector heaters in Christ Church were inspected by a competent service contractor last week.\u00a0 Unfortunately, due to their age and obsolescence, of the 14 heaters in the church, a total of 11 have now been condemned on the basis of safety.\u00a0 Three of the heaters continue to function.\u00a0 Compared with winter 2015\/16, we now have only about 25% of the gas convector heating capacity in the building.\u00a0 The working heaters are in the Lady Chapel, and one each in the north and south transepts.<\/p>\n

The churchwardens and the Buildings Committee are planning to make additional provision by the use of temporary electrical heating, using industrial fan heaters and possibly infra-red electric heaters.\u00a0 The extent of the use of electrical heating is limited by the electric load capacity of the building.<\/p>\n

As the winter approaches, we will monitor the temperatures outside and inside the building and will try to manage the use of Christ Church on a day by day basis to minimize discomfort.\u00a0 One simple way of doing this will be for us all to be careful about conserving heat in the building by making sure that the west and south doors are not left open unnecessarily, to minimize escape of warm air.\u00a0 The congregation and users of the building will be kept informed of the heating situation.<\/p>\n

For the future, plans are advancing for the installation of an all-new gas fired wet (i.e. radiators) system.\u00a0 This is one essential part of the re-ordering project which, subject to the granting of the formal faculty, is planned to be carried out in early 2017.<\/p>\n

Worship will, of course continue, but in the event of severe cold, as the winter months advance, appropriate alternative arrangements for worship may have to be considered.\u00a0 For the time being, there are no plans to change the current use of Christ Church.<\/p>\n

Daniel Pitt,\u00a0 Sunday 16 October 2016<\/p>\n

On behalf of Mike Ranstead, Revd Norma McKemey,<\/p>\n

Stephen Grosvenor and Mike Palmer, Buildings and Site Development<\/p>\n

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Failure of Heating System – Arrangements for Winter 2016\/17 The Drugasar gas convector heaters in Christ Church were inspected by a competent service contractor last week.\u00a0 Unfortunately, due to their age and obsolescence, of the 14 heaters in the church, a total of 11 have now been condemned on the basis of safety.\u00a0 Three of the heaters continue to function.\u00a0 Compared with winter 2015\/16, we now have only about 25% of the gas convector heating capacity in the building.\u00a0 The working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}