Horne Engineering, designer and manufacturer of specialist thermostatic products for healthcare, has invested in a new product demonstration van to bring installed products to specifiers, estates managers, FM providers, and other stakeholders.
It has been internally fitted out with an integrated panel system (IPS) similar to those used in new build and refurbishment healthcare projects. WH Foster & Sons and Altro Flooring undertook what Horne says is “an exceptional fit-out job” for the van.
The “mock installation” includes showers from Horne’s range of surface-mounted shower panels, providing examples of different shower head options paired with specialised flow and temperature controls for standard, secure (ligature-resistant), and disabled (e.g. with BS 8300-compliant lever controls) applications. Hinged IPS wall panelling provides a view of the hard copper piping internal to the shower panels.
Horne’s bi-modal shower panel, adaptable for secure or disabled applications, delivers mixed water via two separate outlets. In Mode 1, designed for users considered physically and mentally able to shower independently, water flows out via the fixed, vandal- and ligature-resistant shower head. Mode 2 requires the fitting of a detachable hose and handset, by a care assistant or supervisor, into the ligature-resistant outlet at the side of the panel. An integral flow actuator automatically diverts the flow to the handset for assisted showering. This dual function increases usage capacity and water turnover, while reducing water stagnation; less time is required for duty flushing as part of a Legionella control regime, and consequently less water is wasted.
The Optitherm bib-mounted thermostatic medical tap is displayed over a 500mm clinical basin. Its ease of operation, cleaning, and maintenance, are easily demonstrated – without having to remove the IPS wall panelling. Management of the cold water system and Legionella control are also enhanced via the Optitherm’s design. Its lack of deadleg and dual usage (cold water and mixed water delivery) serves to turn over cold water more frequently, reducing stagnation. Pipe system water quality can also be improved with the tap in-situ; the Flushing Kit allows increased flow velocities, which shear biofilm from the internal pipe surfaces and remove it to drain.
Wall-mounted thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs), available in a range of sizes from DN15 – DN50, are also on display in the new van. These are suitable for single point-of-use thermostatic mixing, supplying mixed water to a row of basins or showers, and for recirculating domestic hot water systems.
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