Heating Helps Keep a Newbuild Basement Free Of Water Ingress

Case Study Overview

In July 2023, Spitfire Homes were tackling the construction of a high-value, newbuild home in Birmingham.

Challenge

As the newbuild project was in the early stages, the house did not yet have a roof. This meant that when rainfall arrived unexpectedly, the basement works currently underway had to pause due to flooding, with drying of wet trades facing potential delay.

Once the flood water was cleared, the basement needed to be sufficiently dried out before the project could progress onto the next stage.

Solution

RVT Group recommended a bespoke solution including a 65kW CLIMEX® Indirect Oil-Fired Heater which constantly heated large volumes of fresh air and was then forced into the building via ducting.

The heater was paired with 3 warm air distribution kits to ensure the heated air was circulated across the entire basement and 3 CLIMEX® Dehumidifier 96 Litres removed the significant levels of moisture from the air.