We recently attended this shopping centre in Sheffield where the existing Grundfos home Booster Set had failed.PressBoost Senior Engineer Andrew Shelley replaced the unit with an equivalent unit from Lowara, the Resvari Plus 250 3-4.5 Cat 5 Booster Set.A tidy,...
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North West College – Booster Set Replacements
This college in the North West was new site for us, and we had to replace two old fixed speed units. One of the units had a failed pump and non-return valves causing the remaining working pump to run constantly even when no demand was present. PressBoost engineers Ben...
Xylem SMB Booster Set Installation – Liverpool
This leisure centre in Liverpool had a Booster Unit with an obsolete panel and pumps. A panel fault was causing the pumps to constantly run which was heavily cavitating them.We replaced the existing unit with a new variable speed Xylem SMB Booster Unit, which will...
Xylem Booster Set and PureWater GRP Tank Installation
The old fixed speed booster set was down to one pump that was noisy.This was replaced by a Xylem SMB variable-speed Booster Set set which will provide significant energy savings, being more efficient and a much lower kw motor rating. We also replaced the tanks with 2...
Salford Hydrovar X Install
We recently attended a site in Salford where the existing 3-pump booster set was being maintained by another company and had failed completely. Time was of the essence as this meant the building was temporarily fed by another booster set. Fortunately, we were asked to...
Xylem Hydrovar X Installation – Gloucester
Here we have a nice 3-pump Xylem Hydrovar X CWB Set installation in Gloucester.Whilst carrying out a PPM visit at this large site in May we found No.1 pump off and U/S, No.3 pump extremely noisy and not delivering, with only No.2 pump fully operational. This coupled...
Nottingham Hotel – Xylem SMB Booster Set
Location: NottinghamProperty Type: HotelInstalled: Xylem SMBDuring an emergency callout to this hotel in Nottingham, we found a 3-pump horizontal booster set in a basement plant room with no sumps in the room. Unfortunately this spelt the end for the existing unit and...
Xylem Hydrovar X installations – Site in Bury
Location: BuryProperty Type: Apartment BlockInstalled: Hydrovar X We completed these 2no. XylemUK GHV Hydrovar X installations to an apartment block in Bury late last year. We completed the installation of the 3-pump set first and site were impressed with the...
Mains Water Conversion to Boosted Supply
Location: ManchesterProperty Type: 8 Storey BuildingInstalled: Hydrovar X This 8-storey building in Trafford Park recently ran out of water to the top two floors due to ever decreasing mains pressure. This caused large scale operational issues on site and as such they...
Twin-Pump Booster Set Installation – Glasgow
Location: GlasgowProperty Type: HotelInstalled: Hydrovar X We recently completed this smart Xylem Hydrovar X GHV Booster Set installation at a large Hotel in Central Glasgow. The existing pumps were over 30-years old and obsolete. Site were running them until failure...
GUV30/33SV installation – Premium Hotel in Central Manchester
We recently installed this Xylem GUV30/33SV set at a premium hotel in Central Manchester. The existing set was obsolete and down to a single pump, constantly running to maintain water to the hotel. This was a big job for us, both the existing set and the new set had...
Twin-Pump Booster Installation – Weston-Super-Mare
A nice little twin-pump booster installation completed at a site in Weston-super-mare last week. The existing set was the obsolete Lowara TKS range and had more than served its purpose. The existing set failed causing a water outage. Fortunately, we were only just...
Premium Office Building In Central Newcastle
We recently picked up the service of this building and found an ageing and heavily dilapidated set down to a single pump. The pressure vessel had failed as well as a multitude of control issues. We supplied and installed the new Xylem Hydrovar X booster set through...
Variable Speed Cold Water Booster Set Installation Central London
We were recently contacted by a new customer who found us via our website. They had a booster unit in a shed feeding 6no. high end apartments in Central London which was dilapidated and down to 1-pump which they were looking to replace. We successfully won the work...
Lowara Presfix Beta Pressurisation Unit and Zilmet Expansion Vessel Installation
It has been some time since we installed a Lowara Presfix Beta Pressurisation Unit; so when our lads installed one recently we thought it would make a nice post! The existing analogue filler had U/S switches and PRV, the vessel diaphragm had failed and given age and...
Obsolete Fixed Speed Booster Set Replacement
Below is a satisfying job to finally see come to fruition. We have been quoting the below set as urgently requiring replacement for almost 10-years! We first picked up the maintenance of this booster set at a holiday park in Suffolk in 2014, at which point we found a...
Lowara SMB30 Installation – Midlands
We recently installed this 3-pump Xylem SMB Booster set to replace a very old and failed fixed speed booster set at a hotel in The Midlands. The existing set was oversized, fixed speed and down to 1-pump. Whilst it had stood the test of time, site were in desperate...
Emergency Booster Set Replacement – Liverpool
We recently completed this emergency booster set replacement at a site in Central Liverpool. The existing unit had failed completely and caused a water outage in the building. We had been quoting the unit for replacement for some time as 1-pump is already failed, the...
Lowara SMB30 Installation – Manchester
We recently installed this Lowara SMB30 set at a site in Manchester. The existing set had obsolete controls and was intermittently faulting causing water outages. Due to age and condition of that unit we decided replacement set was the best course of action. The SMB...
Lowara Presfix Beta Installation in GRP Enclosure
We recently installed this Lowara Presfix Beta and Zilmet 100 litre expansion vessel at a site in Oldham. The existing unit was heavily dilapidated and corroded due to exposure to the elements with an inappropriate housing over it (the pictures speak for themselves!)....
Fixed Speed to Variable Speed Booster Set Replacement
This is a job we have been quoting for a long, long time! The existing fixed speed booster set in this North West Hospital had been down to a single pump and constantly running for the past 6 service visits! Budget constraints had meant site held on for as long as...
Lowara Booster Set Install – Cumbria
PressBoost recently attended and installed a new twin-pump Lowara SMB Booster Set at a Pub in Cumbria. This set replaced an existing obsolete Teknospeed unit. The vessels on the previous Teknospeed set were only 12 months old so were retained for the new unit. All...
Old Analogue Filler Replaced for Lowara Presfix Beta
PressBoost recently completed this upgrade as the existing analogue filler had failed. It had certainly stood the test of time, but replacement required. The Prefix Beta was our go to product in the instance, and looks really effective in the space. We have installed...
Emergency Pump Replacements
In December 2022 we installed a new twin-pump Lowara SMB booster set at this hotel in Manchester. However, due to a pipe freeze over the Christmas period this booster set ended up completely submerged under water. We attended to try and revive the pumps, but...
Lowara GHV Installation – Ashton Tower Block
We recently completed this installation at a tower block in Ashton for a new customer. The building is currently fed via roof tanks, and the primary mechanical contractor is converting the system to a booster supply to provide the correct solution for site to have...
Variable Speed Conversion – Nottingham Hotel
This twin-pump Lowara SMB install was carried out at a hotel in Nottingham. The existing set was oversized and fixed speed. Therefore, by resizing it appropriately and converting to variable speed this hotel will recover significant energy savings. A smart...
3-Pump Lowara SMB Variable Speed Booster Set Installation
We recently completed this Lowara SMB Booster Set installation for Hydraclean at a site in Central Manchester. Completed by our engineers Carl Rogerson, Antony Chesters and John Murphy, the existing set had come to end of life and was upgraded as part of planned...
Lowara Mini Presfix and Expansion Vessel Installation
PressBoost recently installed this Lowara Mini Presfix and 60 litre Expansion Vessel on a CHW system in Hull. The existing analogue unit had failed completely and had not been maintained for many years. We completed the installation at this time of year as the chiller...
3 Pump Lowara SMB Variable Speed Booster Installation – Manchester
This 3 pump Lowara SMB Variable Speed Booster Set installation was recently completed in Manchester city centre. The existing unit had problematic controls and a repair would have been costly. After considering both options, the site opted for replacement unit and...
Holiday Park Pump Unit and Vessel Replacement
This Holiday Park in Wales had a failed single pump unit and vessel.PressBoost engineer Antony Chesters installed a new Lowara twin pump unit and a Global Water Solutions Pressure Tank. BeforeAfterAfter