Heating Support, along with thousands of installers, plumbers, merchants and manufacturers have this week visited the Ricoh Arena in Coventry for Installer Live 2008 – The UK’s largest gas, heating and plumbing show.

Most of the major UK manufacturers had exhibitor stands, along with a selection of smaller manufacturer and service provider. The show also featured several forums where products were demonstrated and question & answer sessions took place.

Although there was a definate presence for renewable fuel appliances, it was refreshing to see so many of the manufacturers showcasing new and innovative tradition boiler style products. Definately the most interesting of these for me was Broag-Remeha’s revolutionary MicroCHP boiler which also generates electricity for use in the home or feeding back into the national grid. This technology is still in prototype at present but hopefully it is a sign of things to come.

We also got to see a number of products which we will be offering for sale in the near future including water conditioning equipment from Calmag and bathroom/washroom equipment from Intatec.

Other new products of interest included the first showing of the Main Unvented Cylinder which we will be stocking shortly, and the MagnaClean TwinTech from Adey Solutions, the company’s first dual-action magnetic and non-magnetic filter.

Images from Installer Live 2008