Top Tips – Water – Measuring Flow

Every business needs to know the volumes of water that flows from wash basin taps, showers,
toilets and cisterns. Why?
Because water costs money – and hot water can cost from 4 to 10 times the cost of cold water.
Currently in Ireland businesses are charged from €2.00 to €3.20 per cubic litre of water (1,000 litres).
So a cold water tap in a guest bedroom that has a flow rate of 15 litres per minute that is operated
for 3 minutes per use, 6 times per day (occupied room), @ 100% occupancy will cost you up to €158
– for each occupied room. Reduce the flows to 6 litres per minute and it will cost you €63 – a saving
of €95 – at a cost of a few Euro to install an aerator or nothing if you can reduce the pressure.
If it is a hot water tap using electricity to heat the water the 15 ltr cost will be c. €1,588 and the 6ltr
cost will be €950 – a saving of c. € 638 – per annum – forever! (Can you imagine the costs in your
public bathrooms which are constantly in use)
So, get measuring and start reducing those flows – without impacting on guests comforts or needs.

This article was taken from the greenhospitality.ie

Summer is a good time to save on those electric bills

It's great to see the fine weather , families out and about enjoying the sunshine.
It'a a great opportunity to save on your electric bill.
People are outside cooking on the BBQ
Clothes are getting dry on the line outside
No need for the heating to be on
No real need for lights around the house to be left on
But are you checking everything
Make sure all household appliances are turned off that are not being used
Heating timers should be off
Simple checks can further reduce electric bills

Energy Savings On Lighting

In our continuing efforts to reduce energy we have changed the lighting in the ladies and gents toilets from 300 watts to 30 watts LCD lighting. In addition to this we now have our service yard lighting on photo cell so when it gets dark they come on and are on a timer to go off. This will in effect reduce our electric output.

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Lifeguard Exams

Lifeguard exams took place in the aquadome on monday 27th of May
All lifeguards passed with flying colours.
Lifeguards and staff will be delagated with green responsibilities to come up with energy saving ideas.

Lifeguard training is still ongoing every Wednesday in the aqua dome,  exams set for sometime in May. 

We are incorporating some energy saving ideas into the training,  ie usage of waves and rivers in quite periods and saving on lighting.

Liquid Pool Cover

In an attempt to save on energy, we have introduced a new form of Pool Cover.

It would be very difficult to cover the Aqua Dome pool with a conventional pool cover, so we have researched this new form of pool cover in an attempt to save on heating , we are going to try it for a month and see if it works.

check out the website for more info

http://www.flexiblesolutions.com/products/heatsavr/