In what little free time they have , a lot of workplace is currently being done in the storage warehouse of boiler maintenance caller Van der Mark in the Dutch townspeople of De Lier . There is an quondam boiler in there that needs to be spik and span by the final stage of the year . By that time the new building , located a bit further down the road in De Lier , will be finish , and the steam boiler is to be place in a Methedrine case to swear out as the new eyecatcher . Erwin van der Mark , together with his chum , possessor of the class business : “ We will have a company space there that will be doubly as large as the late one , but above all , we will have more office space . Which is something we desperately need , because the stricter safety requirements also mean more paperwork . ”
Erwin with the boiler from 1914
Erwin van der Mark , together with his brother Hans , owner of the now fifty - year - old household ship’s company , knows the tremendous administrative stock from the industry , where the company also work on a lot of kettle maintenance . But even in greenhouse horticulture , where about twenty percent of the gain number from , the requirements are becoming stricter . “ Take geothermic projects that have been set up up industrially , for example , going in and taking a look around is just not done anymore . This is different in the character of growers . What we do is combining that industrial knowledge with the glasshouse horticulture brainpower of the Dutch Westland , and it is working great . ”
How many pipework does your father have?The company has now finished the first maintenance on a geothermal installation , and in the yr to occur , Erwin expects to get much more maintenance jobs . Not only with geothermal installations , but with biomass boilers , that have been set up industrially , as well . However , it ’s still mainly ‘ normal ’ kettle that require alimony . “ No longer do we use the oil - fired boilers like there were when the company bulge out , but even the boilers that we had since the elaboration in the 1990s , are considered old by today ’s standard . ”
Through the year , Erwin has seen more and more boiler disappear , and the boilers that replaced them kept get bigger and bigger . “ Back in the peak , there might have been four thousand boilers in the Westland alone . It was the time of the onetime local locution ‘ how many organ pipe does your father have ’ . ” Now there are only about five hundred left , according to Erwin . “ steam boiler will never totally evaporate , but there will definitely be less of them . At the same prison term , it just might become the case that we will be the only maintenance company left . ”
An artist ’s stamp
Boiler ' MOT’Once a year a steam boiler ' MOT ' has to take place , even for boiler fit out with the most modern technology . Because of this , the peak time for maintenance engineers is in the summertime and from October to December in which many growers have their crop rotation . “ Good maintenance makes boilers less susceptible to malfunction and a well - maintained steam boiler tan cleaner , which is not only good for the environment but for the cultivator ’s notecase as well . ”
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