Diesel Heaters

Anyone who’s stood in a half-finished building in February, watching their breath fog up faster than the brew in their flask cools down, knows the problem with heating a construction site. Direct-fired heaters are cheap and powerful, but they pump combustion fumes straight into the air you’re breathing, which is a non-starter the moment people, … Read more

There’s a stubborn British myth that site workers are somehow impervious to cold — that a flask of tea and a hi-vis vest is all anyone needs when it’s 3°C at 7am on a wind-lashed development in Yorkshire. The reality, of course, is rather different. Cold workers are slow workers. Slow workers make mistakes. Mistakes … Read more