Why Churches Should Hire Heaters

Few cathedrals and churches can currently meet heating costs with ease
Only buildings such as York Minster (a Gothic cathedral in York, and one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe alongside Cologne Cathedral), and Canterbury Cathedral in Kent (one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England) receive enough visitors each year to comfortably bear heating costs.

Other cathedrals and churches struggle with finding the correct balance between keeping the building at an appropriate temperature without having to pay eye-watering fuel bills. And that’s when the heating system is working well.

Very few churches across the UK are newly built. Most are old buildings with a fixed heating system that has probably been in place for decades. Because of their age, many of these are faulty and prone to breaking down. Being dated systems with poorly working controls, parts can be difficult or even impossible to source, meaning that an entire system may need to be replaced, at considerable expense.

Hiring heaters is a flexible option
During heating system maintenance, servicing or replacement at a small, medium or large-sized church, the option to hire heaters from a heater hire specialist can prove cost-effective. And rentable heaters can also be used to temporarily relieve severely cold/freezing conditions where heating systems simply do not have the capacity to heat a church, where heating in the main hall needs to be topped up at certain times of the week in an intermittently-occupied building.

Leased heating can also be a longer term solution when smaller parts of a church premises are used individually: for regular parent/toddler groups, prayer meetings, brownie/scout groups, or church committee meetings, etc.

In addition, the current economic crises has impacted negatively on church funds across the land, and so many churches are renting out their premises (or parts of it) for other more ad hoc activities, such as: children's parties, exercise groups, art classes, or to musical groups for rehearsals. it is much more economical and energy efficient to heat one part of the building in these situations too rather then turn on the entire building’s heating system. This is because, often in older buildings the central heating system is not divided into separate zones as is currently required by today’s building regulations, and so heating one small room required the entire building to also be heated.

Why only heater hire specialists should be used
Heating a church is a complex affair and the cost of getting it wrong could be disastrous in terms of the building fabric and church finances. A wealth of experience and vast expertise is something churches should seek out in a heater rental specialist.

Hired in heaters – so many benefits
Renting heaters from an established specialist is generally quick, affordable and hassle-free. At their depots across the country they will have a large and comprehensive range of electric, gas and oil-fired heaters. Churches can be provided with the safest and most effective heaters for their specific location and to reflect the activities and events they host.

Portable heaters for hire are energy efficient, environmentally-friendly, and can be:

Used immediately

Easily stored

Rented on a short contract basis

And as we have seen:

The perfect stop-gap between the removal of an existing (fixed) heating system at a church, and the installation of a new one

Hired during planned servicing or maintenance work to a fixed heating system

Added to an existing church heating solution when extra heating is required

Finally, a specialist heater hire company will also supply and manage all the fuel a small, medium or large church needs (gas or oil), at competitive rates.

Article submitted by Steve Reeve, Sales Director at Andrews Sykes. With over 25 years’ experience, Andrews Sykes provides heater hire for churches, using machinery sourced from the world’s top manufacturers.