Gas Services for a Logistics and Manufacturing Town
Coalville sits beside junction 22 of the M1, and that has made it one of the busiest distribution locations in the East Midlands. Large sheds stand at Bardon and along the A511, and more are being built. Around them are quarrying, brick making, engineering and food firms that have been in the area far longer.
For a commercial gas engineer that means two kinds of work: heating very large buildings efficiently, and keeping process gas supplies to older factories safe and sized for what they now run.
How Do You Heat a Distribution Shed?
A modern warehouse is tall, open and has dock doors moving all day. Heating the air in it is a losing battle, so radiant tube heaters, which warm people and floors directly, are the usual answer for the loading areas. Warm air heaters suit the enclosed picking and packing zones, and boiler plant serves the offices and welfare blocks.
The gas pipework for all of this runs at high level and is sized for every heater firing at once. It is installed, tested, purged and commissioned before winter, and inspected each year afterwards. See commercial heating systems.
Our Services in Coalville
Gas Pipework Installation
Steel, copper and buried PE, including long runs across yards to detached buildings. See commercial gas installation and underground pipework.
Tightness Testing and Nitrogen Purging
Strength and tightness testing to IGEM/UP/1, direct and nitrogen purging, and written records. See gas testing and purging.
Commissioning
Pressure checks with the plant running, proving of safety valves and interlocks, labelling and handover.
Certificates and Catering
Annual gas safety inspections, and kitchen pipework for canteens, pubs and takeaways.
Businesses We Work With
Distribution and Logistics
Sheds at Bardon, Interlink Park and along the A511 and M1, from a single heater replacement to a full heating installation.
Quarrying, Brick and Building Products
Process burners, dryers and kilns with large gas loads, where work is timed to production.
Engineering and Food Manufacturers
Ovens, boilers and space heating in older units around Whitwick, Ibstock and Ashby.
Pubs, Restaurants and Public Buildings
Kitchens, schools and leisure centres across the district.
Buried Supplies and Records on Large Sites
Distribution parks around Coalville are laid out as several buildings on one site, often fed from a single meter house. The links between them are buried polyethylene mains. Before any digging we locate the existing services, then the pipe is laid at the correct depth, surrounded with suitable fill and marked with warning tape. It is tested before the trench is closed, so that any fault can be found while the joints are still visible, and it changes to steel before it rises above ground.
When a new building is added, the main is extended in a section that can be isolated, tested and purged on its own, so the rest of the site stays on.
Records matter as much as the pipework on sites like these. Main contractors need test and purge certificates for the handover file, insurers ask for them after any change, and the estates team needs to know which valve isolates which building. We issue records in the format the client needs and update the drawings when we alter a supply, so the next engineer to arrive at a Coalville shed knows what is live. That matters most when a site changes hands, because the new occupier inherits the pipework and the paperwork together.
Why Shed Operators and Quarries Choose Us
We work only on commercial and industrial gas systems and we are Gas Safe registered, number 568617. We are used to working under site permit systems and to the handover records main contractors need. We work seven days a week and quotes are free.
Emergency Repairs Around Junction 22
For a suspected gas escape, call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999. Once the site is safe, the repair is your responsibility.
Our emergency engineers attend at any hour. A heating failure in a shed in January, or a leak on a process supply, is dealt with quickly and followed by the test and purge needed before gas is restored.
Compliance, North West Leicestershire, the County and Cadent
Employers have a duty under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 to keep pipework and appliances safe, and an annual inspection is the accepted way to show it.
Planning, including listed building consent, is handled by North West Leicestershire District Council. The highway authority is Leicestershire County Council, so excavation in an adopted road or footway needs its consent. Most buried pipework on distribution sites stays inside the site boundary, where that does not arise.
Cadent operates the gas distribution network in the East Midlands and handles new supplies, larger meters and disconnections, directly or through your supplier.
Which Areas Around Coalville Do We Cover?
We cover Coalville, Whitwick, Bardon and Ravenstone (LE67), Ashby-de-la-Zouch (LE65), Ibstock, Measham (DE12), Castle Donington and East Midlands Airport (DE74), Loughborough (LE11 and LE12), Shepshed (LE12) and Burton upon Trent (DE13 to DE15).
We also cover Leicester, Derby and Nottingham and work across the UK, so coverage is not limited to the district.
Getting a Quote for a Shed or a Works
Call 08000 855 077 or send an enquiry. For a new heating installation, drawings and a heater schedule help us quote quickly, and for a process supply the appliance data plates tell us the load we have to size for. For existing buildings, photographs of the meter and the plant are useful. Quotes are free and carry no obligation.
Get a Quote for a Shed, a Works or a Kitchen
Warehouse operators, manufacturers, contractors and facilities managers across Coalville and North West Leicestershire can call us at any stage of a project, including early design.