Starplex Maintenance
Plumbing in Durban North

StarPlex has branches in Gauteng and Cape Town with new branches beeing planned countrywide. Use us for your next project and have your dream home or remodel designed and built by the best architects and contractors. There are new ways of heating our homes and powering our energy needs. Solar heating panels, evacuated tubes and pv electric are becoming the new standard in our homes. Cheap energy is something of the past, so reducing fossil dependent fuels is vital for saving our planet and our hard earned cash. With utility energy costs, installing solar panels, currently represent one of the best investments, increasing your properties value and reducing your energy bills long term. A well chosen and professionally installed solar heating system will provide up to 70% of your home’s annual hot water or electric requirement. Instead of electricity or gas heating the water in your boiler, solar panels provide this function during the day and at night your normal boiler can take over when electricity is cheaper. The solar heat is then exchanged with the water inside your hot water cylinder. When a water pipe is damaged the water can leak into the surrounding ground which causes the pipe and soil to vibrate at the exit point. This vibration, or sound, is transmitted by the pipe and the surrounding material. Starplex has the tools and experience to pick up these sounds allowing the leak location to be pinpointed. Advanced Digital Signal Processing has made our job easier and more precise. An internal microphone is used for confined work and a detachable external ground microphone is used for listening on floors, ground and for listening to valves. Minimum Noise Level: A leak noise is constant; it does not get quieter or louder but traffic and wind noise will increase and decrease. Are you closer or further away from the leak in the current listening position compared to the last? The higher the number on the display the closer to the leak you are. Filter function: Allows the user to listen to the sound at the frequency that best suits their hearing and the particular noise being listened to. Examination of house service pipes when the water meter is read. Often the exact position of pipes and cables is unknown due to inaccurate or non-existent network plans. In order to carry out precise water leak detection and to avoid damage to utilities and operators during excavations, it’s essential to know the position of all services. The Sewerin UtiliTrac makes this task easier than ever for both the experienced and inexperienced operator. Heat pumps are one of the most efficient domestic hot water heating systems available, as they utilise the solar heat stored in the surrounding environment, which provides approximately 75% of the heat pumps heating energy and only approximately 25% of external energy is required in the form of electricity in order to achieve a heat output of 100%. Domestic application in households to heat water in electric water heaters and solar water heaters.