
254 ESTIMATING ANNUAL RUNNING COSTS
heaters, humidifiers and refrigerating equipment need careful and
constant maintenance.
Allow 2 per cent for simple mechanical ventilating systems and 4
per cent for air conditioning installations, based in each case upon
the capital cost of the plant room equipment as installed.
ANNUAL COST OF ELECTRICITY USED IN PLANT ROOM
The cost of electricity for plant room lighting, pump motors, stoker
motors and oil burners, and in the case of many oil-fired systems,
electricity for maintaining the oil storage temperature, must be
included in the estimate.
Lighting costs can be found by :
Lamp watts
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