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Inta’s Vue Safe Touch range offers both style and comfort
Anti -scald bathroom manufacturer Inta’s ‘Vue’ range of showers features leading Safe Touch technology, promising to bring extra safety and comfort to every bath and shower room.
The Vue Safe Touch range is ingeniously designed to ensure that the shower bodies are never more than one degree warmer than the water coming out of the shower. The brass casting of the shower valve incorporates a sleeve of cold water at outlet temperature all around the outside of the shower body, keeping very hot water away from the surface of the valve.
Darran Bougourd, sales director at Inta, said: “This range allows you to enjoy a shower without risk of accidentally burning yourself on the shower valve, unlike other types of valve. The Vue Safe Touch range introduces a new era of comfort in showering, whilst removing the only remaining burn risk in the bathroom.”
Posted on 01 January 2012
London plumber finds Intatec’s Golden IntaMix and bags an iPad 2
The winning ticket for anti-scald manufacturer Intatec’s ‘Golden IntaMix’ giveaway has been found at bathroom specialist Burge and Gunson in Surrey.
The lucky winner, London based plumber Martyn Kern of MK plumbing, has won an Ipad 2 after finding the golden ticket in with his IntaMix TMV2 mixing valve.
The competition, which was launched to celebrate the millionth mixing valve, saw the golden IntaMix dispatched in October.
Kern, who has been in the plumbing trade for 21 years, was presented with his prize by Inta sales representative Neil Michael and Burge and Gunson store manager Colin Towers and couldn’t believe his luck: “I’m so shocked that I got the ticket. You read about these competitions all the time and think you’ve got no chance of winning but I opened up the box for the IntaMix valve and out came the golden ticket.
“It’s funny because I’ve bought and fitted hundreds of IntaMix’s for my customers, but I’d purchased this particular one for myself to fit in my new attic conversion at home.”
Inta sales representative for London, Neil Michael, says he was utterly surprised when he received the call saying the golden IntaMix had been found: “There’s been some healthy competition between the sales team at Inta as to whose customer would get the millionth mixing valve. We’ve all been eagerly anticipating the result so I’m feeling quite smug that it surfaced in my sales region.”
Posted on 01 January 2012
Inta gets Danny Bowers out on the road
Anti-scald tap, shower and valve manufacturer Intatec has appointed Danny Bowers as its sales representative for the West Midlands and South Wales.
Announcing Danny’s promotion, Inta’s Sales Director Darran Bougourd said: “Danny has worked with us on internal sales and his flair for building good relationships with existing and prospective customers alike was hard to miss.
“We are delighted to be able to give Danny the opportunity to get out on the road to continue developing relationships."
24 year old Danny from Stoke-on-Trent began his career in the bathroom industry when he joined Inta four years ago.
Posted on 01 January 2012
Tragic toddler death in shower should act as industry wake-up call
The death of a West Midlands toddler after being scalded in a shower is yet another tragic reminder of how dangerous hot water can be to vulnerable groups, warns anti-scald specialist Inta.
Two-year-old Kristiana Logina from Smethwick suffered burns to 10% of her body when she was held under hot water by her mother, a court in Birmingham heard this week.
The temperature of the water is thought to have reached 58 degrees. The injuries were not instantly fatal but became septic when her mother, Eva Logina, failed to seek medical attention after the incident.
Cynthia Fisher, director of Inta, commented: “We are saddened to hear about this tragedy. Showers are less likely to cause severe scalding than baths, as far less of the body is instantly in contact with dangerously hot water. Because of this lower risk, thermostatic protection for showers was not made compulsory in last year’s Part G regulations as it was for baths. “However this incident shows that there is a clear danger for certain vulnerable groups.
The court heard this week that Kristiana’s mother was shockingly negligent for not seeking medical attention immediately after the scald, but this could easily be a similar case for an elderly person living alone. Too often they don’t want to cause a fuss and want to avoid being admitted to hospital at all costs, so could easily suffer a similar injury and not seek help.
“Common sense should have clearly prevented the tragic death of Kristiana, but an anti-scald shower would have prevented the injury happening in the first place. Builders, plumbers and installers should bear this in mind when fitting showers in bathrooms likely to be used by any vulnerable group. It may not be the law, but you can certainly play a part in educating your end customer about the potential dangers - and prevent this type of incident occurring at all.”
Posted on 01 January 2012
Are London plumbers cutting anti-scald corners?
The capital’s jobbing plumbers avoid fitting anti-scald valves where they can, according to a series of mystery shops undertaken by Inta at merchants in London.
TMV2 thermostatic mixing valves should be fitted to the bath in any new domestic bathroom, or bathroom refurbishment, to reduce the risk of serious injury or death. But whilst contractors and developers are purchasing significant quantities of anti-scald devices for larger jobs, sales across the trade counter to individual plumbers remain low.
At long established ironmongers and merchants HE Olby in Lewisham, South London, the Inta mystery shopper heard speculation that plumbers are only fitting anti-scald valves in situations where the installation will be inspected.
Joseph Burton, who has been working on HR Olby’s counter for 23 years, said: “Whilst our colleagues in the warehouse send out hundreds of anti-scald valves for large contracts, here on the trade counter we rarely sell any.
“I also think that there are so many regulations and new rules that it’s difficult for plumbers to keep up with the very latest legislation. There’s definitely still work to be done informing them why anti-scald valves are a necessity. The trouble is that the public also aren’t generally aware that a new bathroom requires TMV2 protection by law either.”
In the past five years, 51 people have died in the UK as a result of bathtime scalding. Three of them, so far in 2011. In the same period 820 have survived with serious injuries.
Inta director Darran Bougourd added: “As there is unlikely to be any government campaign to promote awareness of the risks of bathtime scalding, it’s up to the industry to make our colleagues and contemporaries aware of the regulations and the real life reasons to fit anti-scald valves.”
Inta has produced a booklet ‘Everything you need to know about anti-scald’ which is freely available across the counter at plumbers’ and builders’ merchants. Anyone wanting a supply for their counter should contact Inta directly.
Posted on 24 November 2011