The water cooler company supplies a large range of coolers to meet all environments.Some coolers also supply hot water which is perfect for making your coffee at break time.Please contact us on 08455004455,email contact@thewatercoolercompany.com  for details on our bottle less water cooler range and the services we provide.Alternatively you can use you can use our contact form by clicking here

The drinking fountain, as we know it, was developed in the early 1900s by Halsey Taylor and Haws. These two companies, founded by Halsey Willard Taylor and Luther Haws respectively, pioneered a major change in how water was dispensed in public places. In doing so, they also helped reduce the instance of waterborne diseases among the general population. In fact, Halsey W. Taylor’s dedication to providing a safe and sanitary drink to the public was prompted by his father’s death from typhoid fever caused by a contaminated water supply.

For years, drinking fountains provided water in public buildings, schools and factories. However, the desire for colder drinking water brought about the introduction of chilled drinking fountains. These predecessors to the water cooler featured cooling that was generated by a 9 kilogram block of ice.

The first refrigerated water coolers were cumbersome floor standing units that used beltdriven ammonia compressors to chill the water. They were so heavy, they had to be moved by several men or with a forklift! As testimony to the quality found throughout our industry, some of these units are still in operation today.

As we progressed into the 1950s, the ability to offer students a cold, refreshing drink of water throughout the school day became an industry priority. This led to the design and development of wall-mounted water coolers more suitable to school environments.

Over the years, Halsey Taylor developed many variations of the wall-mounted unit, including space-saving recessed models that allow for uninterrupted corridors and hallways, making them ideal for schools, hospitals and other buildings with high-traffic.

The next major step in the water cooler evolution process occurred in the 1960s. That is when the industry began to recognize there were physically challenged people confined to wheelchairs who had difficulty drinking from our fountains and coolers. In response, the industry came out with the more easily accessible wheelchair water cooler.

Government regulations were introduced in the 1980s that specifically defined the needs of the handicapped. Based on these regulations, the Barrier-Free water cooler evolved and soon became the number one seller in the industry. During this same time period, there was a move underway to eliminate lead-bearing components from potable water supply systems. The first change was in solders and then other components soon followed, spurred on by the Safe Drinking Water Act. The need to eliminate CFC refrigerants from the coolers soon followed, and the industry quickly moved to HFC-134a refrigerant to replace the CFCs.

The 1980s also saw an enhanced focus on the design and appearance of water coolers and drinking fountains. As fountains and coolers became more accessible and more practical than ever before, they also became more attractive. Oval shapes, rounded corners and contemporary finishes that accented or blended in with a building’s decor became fashionable and remain so today. In addition to looking for quality and performance when specifying or selecting a water cooler, engineers, architects, building owners and facilities managers were also seeking units that looked good.

The 1990s brought about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which more comprehensively defined the rights and needs of the handicapped for access to many types of facilities. While this resulted in some dimensional and slight design changes to water coolers and drinking fountains in order to make them even more accessible to physically challenged individuals, it also recognized the needs of able bodied people and those with bending difficulties. ADA declared that public facilities needed to provide both wheelchair accessible and standard height units. This resulted in the birth of the increasingly popular bi-level unit.

Where is the drinking fountain and water cooler industry headed next? There continues to be, and there will no doubt always be, a concern for the purity of water. Most recently, this has prompted some manufacturers, including Halsey Taylor, to secure full ANSI/NSF 61 certification for all of their water coolers and drinking fountains. ANSI/NSF 61, Section 9 is a standard that measures the contribution of lead and many other harmful contaminants by drinking water components. Two testing bodies, Underwriter’s Laboratories, Inc. and NSF International, have been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to certify NSF Standard 61, Section 9 compliance.

The Safe Drinking Water Act makes professional plumbing contractors, engineers, architects and building owners, as well as maintenance and facilities managers, responsible for the quality of water dispensed from the products they specify or install. Because of this, offering water coolers and drinking fountains that meet all the requirements of ANSI/NSF 61 has become very important.

In addition to achieving this classification for lead, Halsey Taylor is one of the manufacturers providing water coolers and drinking fountains that meet the stringent requirements of this standard for organic contaminants, regulated metals (including antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, tin and zinc), radionuclides, RVCM (residual vinyl chloride monomer) and solvent levels.

While time and innovation can often lead to obsolescence, those in our industry can take comfort in the fact that there will always be a need for clean drinking water. Consequently, the prime directive for the water cooler industry is, and will always be, to provide the best products possible for dispensing clean water to the public.

People often opt for a bottleless water cooler if they do not want to keep calling up for the bottles to be delivered and having to wait for more water if they don’t call in time to have the new bottles delivered. Some companies use them alongside normal bottled water coolers or as a straight replacement.

The range of bottleless water coolers we have here at The Water Cooler Company are available for rental from as little as £5 per week (fully inclusive) for a single cooler. Discounts may apply for multiple coolers dependent on contract length.

To rent one of our bottleless water coolers you will need to have access to a potable mains water supply nearby and an electricity point within three metres of your proposed water cooler site as it is connected directly to the mains water supply with discrete food grade flexible tubing. The water is then taken through a carbon based filter system which removes 99.99% of impurities from the water, and finally is chilled or heated in the water cooler and used in a normal way.

We offer customers a free site survey to determine the best location for your cooler and once that has been completed and you have decided to go ahead, we will have one of our installation engineers come out to to install your cooler. There will be a filter change and sanitisation every six months by one of our engineers as well so there’s no need to worry about anything once you’ve put us in charge of your water cooler.

If you would like any further information, please call us on 0845 500 4455 or email contact@thewatercoolercompany.com

The Cascade Water Cooler

Are you sick of changing over the empty water bottles from your office water cooler as often as you do? Does it seem as though people are always at the water cooler filling up their cups and water bottles all day? If so, you may need to look at swapping to a mains fed water cooler rather than having a bottled water cooler.

A mains fed water cooler will cut out the drama of changing water bottles and will save you money as you won’t need to have the water bottles delivered anymore.

If your place of work drinks a lot of water we would recommend The Cascade water cooler. The Cascade is a mains fed water cooler durably contructed to withstand robust use and  meet the needs of high usage customers. The Cascade also has a high chilling capacity in a pressure reservoir.

The Cascade’s state-of-art design offers two water temperatures, cold and cool.  The Cascade also features hygienic solutions such as concealed faucets,a sanitisation fluid entry point. Ideal for installation in public institutions, schools and offices, this plumbed-in water cooler can be rented from £7.00 per week.  

All rental prices include installation, full servicing and six monthly sanitisation and filter changes for the coolers. Unlike others, we have no hidden costs. Rental price reductions for multiple coolers.

If you have any questions about plumbed in water coolers, or any other queries please email us at contact@thewatercoolercompany.com or call on 0845 500 4455.   

Regardless of whether or not you have finished your shopping, the team here at The Water Cooler Company would like to wish all their customers and suppliers a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

It’s been a big year for us, we’ve had new staff join the team, new products on board and have added new sections on our website. We will continue to strive to be London’s leading bottleless water cooler company for the year ahead and we hope to offer our customers even more products in 2010.

The Water Cooler Company guarantees you will save money by switching to bottleless water coolers and we even offer potential customers a free trial so they can see the benefits of having a mains fed water cooler in their home, work or school environment. For your free trial please click here.

If you have any questions about mains fed water coolers, or any other queries please email us at contact@thewatercoolercompany.com or call on 0845 500 4455

In the news this week, we came across this drinking water related story regarding Scottish local councils expenditure on bottled water.

Following a Freedom of Information request to all 32 of Scotland’s local councils, it was made public that across Scotland, a total of £2, 835,600 was spent on council buildings and official council functions for water coolers, bottled water and diluting juice over the last three years, with significant expedniture going towards bottled water.

North Lanarkshire council alone managed to  spend a whopping £592,179, making it one of the worst offendors. News of the expenditure has led to calls for councils to reduce their spend on bottled water and switch to using more tap water.  Nanette Milne MSP, the Conservative Party’s Environment minister; responded to the news by labelling the expenditure on free access drinking water in schools and public places an “obvious area to cut back on”.

The overall figure of expenditure could be even higher, since 12 of the councils asked failed to produce information regarding their expenditure on drinking water.

An option Scottish councils may not have considered would be to use a plumbed in, mains fed water cooler which can be purchased from plumbed in water cooler specialists The Water Cooler Company, and provides an office or public building with filtered, chilled drinking water direct from the building’s water mains, and can save on the cost of buying bottled drinking water.

The Water Cooler Company can deliver and install plumbed in water coolers to addresses throughout the UK.

For more information on purchasing or renting a plumbed in, mains fed water cooler, please call 0845 500 445 or email contact@thewatercoolercompany.com

Discrete food grade flexible tubing is used in the process which means that the cooler can be positioned many metres from the mains water without the need for any additional plumbing. The water is then taken through a carbon based filter system which removes 99.99% of impurities from the water.

Mains fed water coolers are advantageous in comparison to bottled water coolers and plain bottled water, because they often prove to be much cheaper. They are also more hygienic as they are regularly maintained and sanitised, and on top of that , they present a much more ethical way of supplying your staff and/or family with unlimited, free flowing, drinking water. So there you have it.

To buy or rent a mains-fed water cooler from the water cooler company simply go to the purchase page on this site.

• A state of the art mains-fed Watercooler
• Typical Free installation
• 100 disposable cups
• Available within the M25

Take a look at our website to fill out a Free Trial form -  http://www.thewatercoolercompany.com/index.php?id=freetrial and we will contact you the same day to organize a date and time best to suit you!

In the Watercooler world, we sometimes cant get our heads around how much some people spend on clean drinking Water, when it’s easy as pie to filter your Water from as little as £6.00 per week! Plus, more Coolers mean more Savings! So make sure you call us for a quotation, even if you have been quoted cheaper elsewhere.

One thing is for sure, when we say £6.00 per week, we mean £6.00 per week. Apart from VAT (which we have now reduced to the 15% rate) we will not charge you for Delivery, Installation, Sanitisation, Call Outs, Parts, Environmental Levy, Sanitisation consumables etc … We find its much easier for you to have one whole figure – So be aware of companies offering you cheap deals… they are not always what they say on the can!

Work out how much we can save you at www.thewatercoolercompany.com But don’t worry; you can still save money with us even if mains-fed systems are not feasible for you. Our sister company  www.thewaterdeliverycompany.com pride themselves on their fantastic service, and will be happy to help with all your bottled enquiries, Watch this space though… the Watercooler Company have begun to supply a wider range of bottled Watercoolers to tend to all our clients, simply give us a call for more information on 0845 500 4455.

So basically, We’ve gathered we can save you money…. Now I bet your thinking “Whats the catch?” Well… There isn’t one. The reasons why we can offer you a fantastic price along with even better service boil down to the following points:

We are Local : Based in London, supplying London – easy as that. Whichever part of London and the surrounding areas you are in, it will NEVER take us long to get out to you should a problem arise, this is why we can guarantee 48hr call out, although we usually have no problem getting to you the same day or the next.

We are family run : Unlike some of the larger companies, we are a family run business, meaning that we work in a more responsive way. We guarantee no call centres, no automated service and there is always a “real” person the other end of the line. Simple!

We are medium sized : That’s right, we see that as a good thing, because you as a client matter to us. You’re not a needle in a haystack, your important to us and the growth of our business. Therefore, we will do everything we can to make you happy!

Thought of the week!
Water to Wine

A Lutheran minister is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut.
The state trooper smells alcohol on the minister’s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”
“Just water,” says the minister.
The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”
The minister looks at the bottle and says, “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”

Speaking of Water to Wine, why not take a look at our new sister company the Vinturi?
The amazing new technology doesn’t quite turn Water into wine, but we’re working on it!
It does however, Aerate Red wine to give it an Enhanced and enjoyable flavour!
Find out more at www.vinturi.org.uk