Church Heating - Comfortable Warmth during the Service

Church heating systems provide cozy warmth even in the cold season, allowing churchgoers to feel comfortable throughout the year during services. Read here about which heating systems effectively warm churches and the role that Variotherm Skirting Heating Systems play in this.

What should be considered for church heating?

Churches are buildings with a long history and tradition. They house sacred artworks, fine organ works, and historical building fabric that place great demands on the surroundings. Therefore, it is all the more important that the planning and installation of new heating take into account the demanding installations as well as the needs of churchgoers. After all, people should feel comfortable even during the service. Since churches are very often buildings that are already several centuries old, the thermal insulation is correspondingly poor.

Due to the historical building fabric, questions of monument protection must also be included in the planning of a renovation or renovation of church heating. Last but not least, a new church heating system must also adapt to the frequency of use. This means that churches are not visited on many days during the week, but on weekends and holidays, churchgoers should not have to freeze. This poses some requirements for church heating systems. Conventional heating systems do not always bring the desired effect in churches. Therefore, when selecting the right church heating, customized solutions must be used that not only address the demanding works in church buildings but also the comfort of churchgoers. The solution for this: skirting heating systems, which are variably applicable.

Advantages of Variotherm Skirting Heating System

For modern church heating, Variotherm Skirting Heating Systems are optimally suited. This is because Skirting Heating Systems can be installed quickly – both in new constructions and renovations. Thanks to the Skirting Heating Systems, a gentle warm air curtain builds up within a short time, circulating along cold surfaces. The resulting Radiant Heat quickly ensures a pleasantly warm room climate.

Another major advantage of the Variotherm Skirting Heating Systems is that they can be individually clad and thus perfectly adapt to the interior design. This allows the use of the Skirting Heating Systems as bench heating in churches and also means that the Skirting Heating can be installed later. Additionally, the costs for church heating can be reduced by up to 25% thanks to the optimized Variotherm Skirting Heating System – a particular plus in times of rising prices.

Parish Church Pollham – An Example of Successful Church Heating

An example of a successful church heating is the renovation of the Parish Church Pollham. To ensure that the church is pleasantly warm even in the cold season, Variotherm has equipped both the church pews and the choir floor with skirting heating systems. The Parish Church Pollham is an important space for many people in the Upper Austrian community for services, celebrations, encounters, and community, as well as a retreat for silence and prayer. To ensure that church visitors can feel comfortable in their parish church all year round, the skirting heating systems from Variotherm now provide warmth. The practical and quickly installable skirting heating systems are particularly effective for old buildings and historical structures, such as churches, and are also practical to install. 

Rich wealth of experience for places with history

Churches in many Austrian communities and cities are not only the centers of the locality but also long-standing witnesses of time. Whether several centuries or just a few decades old, each church has its own history. The history of the parish church of Pollham dates back to the 12th century, when the then church served as a chapel for the Pollham noble family. The church in Pollham in its current form was built over 100 years ago. The old Gothic church was demolished, and a neo-Gothic church was erected in the same place. Today, the church is under monument protection, so restorations and renovations must be carried out particularly carefully and thoughtfully, as is the case with many other historical buildings. The installation of the modern and contemporary Variotherm heating in the parish church of Pollham was handled by the innovative installer Aqua Technik from Gallspach.

Pleasant warmth for a listed church.

A total of 127 meters of the Variotherm Skirting Heating were installed in the Pollham parish church as bench heating and for the floor of the choir. This ensures pleasant room temperatures even at low outside temperatures. The great advantage of the Skirting Heating System is that they can be installed quickly and unfold their effect effectively. The heart of the Variotherm Skirting Heating is the heating elements.

Warm water flows through a copper pipe with attached aluminum fins. Within a short time, a warm air curtain builds up, circulating along cold surfaces and thus ensuring a pleasant room climate. The heating elements can not only be individually and diversely clad but also flexibly adapted to the interior design, such as church pews. Thanks to the skirting heating, it is possible to implement not only extraordinary projects but also to achieve a comfortably warm room climate in old buildings and listed structures. In the parish church of Pollham, the skirting heating runs in the floor of the choir as well as elegantly under the pews and is so perfectly clad that it is only noticed when it should be – namely, when it becomes pleasantly warm.