REHAU PROVIDES FLEXIBLE SOLUTION FOR LORNE STEWART
Sway Sheltered Housing 
REHAU’s flexible heating and plumbing pipework has been used by M&E contractors Lorne Stewart in an innovative installation at a large sheltered housing complex in Sway, Hampshire.
A plant room has been sited at the top of the three storey development and all the PE-Xa pipework to feed the radiators and domestic hot and cold water services has simply been run down through the centre of the building within an electrical cable supply basket.
Wherever required, the pipework has been fed through joists to the appropriate locations and jointed using REHAU’s patented Everloc permanent joint system.
Placed within its pipe in sleeve system and fixed to the cable basket with cable ties, the REHAU PE-Xa pipework is completely protected without any requirement for separate ducts to be constructed.
Lorne Stewart chose the REHAU flexible pipe option rather than conventional copper pipework because it had used the system previously on a number of educational projects for hot and cold water supply and had been impressed at how easy the system was to install and the options it opened up in terms of flexible design layouts.
REHAU estimates that, by using its flexible pipework in this innovative way, Lorne Stewart has saved around 20% of the installation time on the project.
As well as its flexibility, the PE-Xa pipework has numerous other advantages over copper - such as that it is corrosion free, prevents internal scale build up, has a projected life in excess of 50 years and carries less risk of site theft because it has no scrap value.
A plant room has been sited at the top of the three storey development and all the PE-Xa pipework to feed the radiators and domestic hot and cold water services has simply been run down through the centre of the building within an electrical cable supply basket.
Wherever required, the pipework has been fed through joists to the appropriate locations and jointed using REHAU’s patented Everloc permanent joint system.
Placed within its pipe in sleeve system and fixed to the cable basket with cable ties, the REHAU PE-Xa pipework is completely protected without any requirement for separate ducts to be constructed.
Lorne Stewart chose the REHAU flexible pipe option rather than conventional copper pipework because it had used the system previously on a number of educational projects for hot and cold water supply and had been impressed at how easy the system was to install and the options it opened up in terms of flexible design layouts.
REHAU estimates that, by using its flexible pipework in this innovative way, Lorne Stewart has saved around 20% of the installation time on the project.
As well as its flexibility, the PE-Xa pipework has numerous other advantages over copper - such as that it is corrosion free, prevents internal scale build up, has a projected life in excess of 50 years and carries less risk of site theft because it has no scrap value.
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