BELFOR UK is one of the UK’s leading disaster recovery businesses and has been restoring and recovering buildings, possessions, and assets for over 35 years. Dedicated to helping customers recover swiftly and efficiently after a disaster, such as fire or flood damage, BELFOR has a team of directly employed specialists and experts across the country.
Headquartered in Tamworth the company has ten depots covering the whole of the UK, including NI.
Taking huge pride in its proven end-to-end service, the company has previously partially outsourced the cleaning of laundry, cutlery and crockery to third parties. Now, in a move designed to improve their service even further, the company is vertically integrating bought out services by building restoration rooms and commercial laundries into each depot.
In many premises this is a part of a wider renovation of the whole building and the depot in Falkirk has just undergone such a refurb.
To discharge the waste from these new facilities, Technical Manager, Jay Scott – who is undertaking the renovations with his two sons Ryan and Josh – specified Saniflo Sanicom 1 lifting stations to discharge hot grey waste water. The powerful units can discharge water waste up to 90°C in temperature for short bursts.
This was ideal for the new restoration room which features an all-singing all-dancing commercial dishwasher that runs on a minute cycle at 84°C. The new room, kitted out in hygienic stainless steel, has two large sinks for the first and second swill of cutlery and crockery with the final hot sterilisation of the goods in the dishwasher. Water from all appliances is discharged through the Sanicom, which has been plumbed in adjacent to the twin sinks.
A further room – for larger items that require greater attention – backs onto the restoration room and accommodates a further stainless steel sink which connects through the wall to the Sanicom. The pipework has been impeccably installed and runs up the wall, through the ceiling and along the edge of a newly created mezzanine floor before reaching a grey soil stack dropping to the outside drain.
In the commercial laundry, two powerful washing machines and two tumbler dryers are used daily to clean and dry damaged clothing and bedding. It is also professionally ironed and bagged up. A large gas boiler is also located in this room and the grey waste water from all the appliances, including condensate from the boiler, is discharged via a second Sanicom.
With no soil stack at this end of the building, the only solution was a lifting station and the Sanicom, with its multiple connection points, is the perfect product to lift up and pump away through pipework that goes up the wall, along the ceiling and down into the main soil vent pipe in the adjacent WCs.
Jay is hugely impressed with the products which are working productively and efficiently;
“The Sanicoms are very easy to fit and the runs they achieve are phenomenal. We’re lucky here in Falkirk with soft water which is very kind to the pump. In hard water areas we will be regularly using Saniflo descaler to maintain optimum performance.”
Going forwards, the next of BELFOR’S depots to undergo a similar transformation is the Swanley Depot in Greater London, followed by Haydock and Dunstable. Thanks to the exceptional performance of the Sanicoms at Falkirk, they will be deployed in each depot as the established method of waste water disposal.
“Belfor is a trailblazer in the industry and we are always looking to improve and extend our services to clients. The Sanicoms have enabled us to successfully integrate restoration and laundry services into our business helping us to provide an efficient service to each client.
