Pete Seddon, Head of Technical at Rinnai, discusses how high-temperature heat pumps are a vital tool to help minimise disruption during retrofit projects. Heat pumps are set to play a key role in the UK’s national decarbonisation journey, but can be problematic when being fitted in a domestic or commercial retrofit project, as a noticeable amount of disruption will occur during installation. Many changes to the heating system will have to be made including the radiators, pipe

Vectaire’s Cool Breeze and Cool Breeze Plus are designed to mitigate overheating in residential properties during summer months, ensuring a comfortable indoor environment at all times. They meet the standards used in CIBSE TM59 assessments and Approved Document O of the Building Regulations and also use the eco-friendly R290 refrigerant, which is over 225 times more environmentally friendly than R32. The UK-manufactured system can be floorstanding or wall mounted and integrat