Established in 1989 Envirogard now hires specialist equipment to contractors throughout mainland U.K. Equipment is supplied from our hire depots at Tamworth, Bristol, Manchester, and Ashford (Kent), and the company is a full member of the Hire Association Europe, and an associate member of the Environmental Industries Commission.

Much of our hire equipment is employed by contractors engaged in environmental clean-up and pollution control. However our hire products are also used by contractors who only occasionally encounter hazardous materials in the course of their work; typically telecomms. engineers, electricians, roofing, shot-blasting and painting contractors – to aid them in complying with health and safety regulations.

Hire products broadly fall into the following classes:

Showers, Decontamination Facilities, and Welfare Units:
To help contractors comply with their obligations to protect their employees and the general public during work with potentially hazardous materials Envirogard offers an extensive range of showers, decontamination units, and welfare units:

►Emergency drench showers are highly mobile and can be located just about anywhere. They include an emergency eyewash station as standard and serve as a primary decontamination shower in case of a hazardous material spill.

►Modular Decontamination Units are often the only option where space constraint prohibits use of static or trailed decontamination facilities. Quickly and easily erected at site from lightweight panels, these systems are intended for indoor use.

►Trailer Decontamination Units - we have a large fleet of decontamination trailers allowing us to cater for the requirements of different industrial users. Hot showers are equipped with individual thermostatic mixer-valves, & water heating may be either electric or alternatively by an integral balanced-flue LPG water heater.

All models have (at least) three compartments which provide separate Dirty, Shower and Clean areas, and are equipped with certified HEPA grade air-filtration to aid containment of hazardous materials. A range of sizes is available from our smallest Micro single shower trailer catering for just 4 people, up to our Maxi Quad shower units.

Self-contained versions are also available equipped with on-board clean water tanks and integral long-run generators; other options include integral vacuum cleaners, boot-washes, waste-water filtration etc. Please speak to the hire desk for full details of the range.

►Trailer Welfare Units are intended for tow to site using a large estate car or van.  Each trailer is equipped with showers, a self-contained cassette toilet [user serviceable], changing area, hand-wash basins, a galley (equipped with microwave-grill, hot plate with kettle, fridge, plus sink), and a mess/office area with table.

Site Services / Ancillaries:
We recognize that many sites lack basic utility services and have their own unique problems. Based on the most frequent customer requests we offer a range of ancillary products compatible with our hire equipment, including:

► compact water bowsers
►4.25 & 7.5kVA long run portable generators
►clean-water supply pumps
►waste filtration units
►Hilta pressure washers
►transformers
►110v extension cables
►halogen lights etc.

Ventilation, Fume & Dust Control Equipment:
We offer a range of equipment for handling "air" in one form or another, with machine capacities from 1000 cfm up to 10,000 cfm.  In summary:

►At the simplest level we offer portable and transportable axial and centrifugal fans for ventilation and fume extraction applications; flexible ducting is available to hire or buy.

►For suppression of nuisance dust e.g. concrete, cement, brick-dust, shot-blasting overspill etc. we have a range of centrifugal extraction fans which can be coupled with medium grade air-filters to reduce air borne dust levels.

►For fine and / or hazardous dusts we have specialist air filtration equipment including Negative Pressure Air-filtration Units (NPU's) to meet most applications.  These machines are equipped with HEPA (High Efficiency Particle Arrestor) filters which typically remove very small particles (less than 1 micron) with better then 99.99% efficiency.  Please discuss your particular application with our hire desk.

Specialist Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Equipment:
Where dust has already settled high efficiency vacuum cleaners allow collection with minimal disturbance and maximum capture. For hazardous dusts (including asbestos) H-Type vacuums are available, constructed to BS5415 and with 3-stage filtration. The final stage includes a HEPA filter module and each machine is individually tested and certified for its filtration efficiency.  110v machines are standard throughout the hire range but compressed air driven models are available on request.

Also available are wet pick-up vacuums in both 110v & compressed air driven versions (not H-Type).

Envirogard is a division of Specialist Hires Ltd, Lydd Yard, Aldington (Kent), TN25 7AL.  The company is forward looking and is constantly looking for new ranges to introduce to the hire fleet. If you know of a product which you think would be a useful addition to our hire equipment range - please don’t hesitate, tell us !