P68/2/2/8

Heating.Churchwarden W.H.Arch’s file on church heating including notes on heating appliances, action to be taken and negotiations with Diocesan Advisory Committee as well as the following:

1972-1985

From: 1972 To: 1985

- recommendation of Coleman oil heaters to replace the oil fired hot air heater (1973); - recommendation of radiated heat from electric heaters and sketch plan showing proposed installation points (1981); - churchwarden’s explanation that the heaters in use since 1973 directed all heat straight up into the roof (1982); - brief to Diocesan Advisory Committee regarding the current heating problems and the proposed new system (1982); - plans and elevations of the interior of the church showing layout of new radiant heating (1982); - PCC resolution to adopt new infra-red heating system (5 Oct 1982); - prices for new system from Thermaflex Ltd. of Glenrothes [Scotland] (1982) and quotation from L.T.Izzard (Electrical) Ltd. of Bedford; - faculty for the works (8 Dec 1982); - Diocesan Advisory Committee opinion on the success of the new heating system and their view that the church had pioneered a system that other churches in the Diocese might benefit from (1983); - report on the church’s experience with the new system (1984); - threat by Frenger Troughton of Hayes [Middlesex] to institute debt proceedings against the church for a bill that had already been paid (1984); - correspondence regarding fuel costs of the new system (1984); - failures in pew heaters (1984)

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Arch, W H,
Thermaflex Limited,
Izzard, L.T.,
Troughton, Frenger

PAVENHAM, general correspondence, churches, church heating, churchwardens, plans, PCC, Scotland, Hayes