Generator hire in Cork

Euro Concrete hires its 40 and 80 kVA site generators at the daily rates shown on this page, excluding VAT. The 3.4 and 6 kVA petrol generators are priced on request. Ring Sean on 086 881 9848 with the size you need, the dates and the address for the full price.

A day's hire of a petrol generator suits a short job with hand tools and lights, a power cut, or an event. The site generators are for longer running: cabins, bigger tools and temporary supply while the mains is off or not yet connected. Delivery is added based on where the generator is going and how easy it is to reach. List what the generator will power and for how many hours a day, and we will size it to the load and price the hire. If you are not sure of the load, we will work it out with you from the equipment list.

The size of generator a house needs depends on what you want to run at the same time. Euro Concrete hires generators from 3.4 kVA to 80 kVA: a small petrol unit covers lights, a fridge and a few sockets, while a whole house with the shower, the cooker or a heat pump running needs a bigger site generator.

Add up the power of everything that will run at once, and allow extra for anything with a motor, such as a fridge, a pump or a compressor, which draws more as it starts. Lights, a fridge, a freezer, a boiler and a few sockets fit a small generator. A shower, a cooker, an immersion or a heat pump each needs far more on its own. Connecting a generator to the wiring of a house needs a changeover switch fitted by a qualified electrician, so the generator never feeds back into the mains. Tell us what you want to run, and we will match the generator.

A generator can run overnight if it is outdoors, well away from the house and fuelled for the night, but it needs the same care as in daytime. Every generator Euro Concrete hires must run in the open air, never in a garage, porch or shed, because its exhaust contains carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour, and it can build up inside a house from a generator left running near a door, window or vent. Fit carbon monoxide alarms in the house and test them once a month. Check the fuel will last the night, because a petrol generator must be switched off and left to cool before it is refuelled. Keep it dry, stable and out of reach of children and animals. For long running on a site, the canopied 80 kVA generator keeps the weather out and the noise down.

A portable generator belongs outdoors, well away from any door, window or vent, with the exhaust pointed away from the building and at the distance its manual sets. Euro Concrete delivers each generator with a handover, and where it stands is part of setting it up safely.

Measure the distance from the generator to the building itself, not to the fence, and check current safety guidance for generators. Never run one in an attached garage, even with the door open, or tucked into a porch, shed or lean-to for shelter from the rain. Place it where the wind will not carry the exhaust back to the house, and where the lead to your equipment does not have to run through a window that then stays open. Store fuel in a proper labelled container, away from living areas. Never plug a generator into a socket to power the house; a connection to the house wiring is a job for a qualified electrician.

The kVA generator you need is set by the total power of everything running at once, plus a margin for motors that draw extra as they start. Euro Concrete hires generators at 3.4, 6, 40 and 80 kVA, from hand tools and lights up to site cabins and temporary supply, and will match one to your load.

Generators are rated in kVA, while tools and appliances are labelled in watts or kilowatts, so the two need converting. The kW a generator supplies is its kVA rating multiplied by the power factor: at a power factor of 0.8, a 40 kVA generator supplies 32 kW. Add up the running power of the tools, heaters, lights and cabins needed at the same time, then add a margin for motor loads, such as a compressor, a pump, a mixer or a saw, because starting can briefly draw several times the running power. If any equipment is three-phase, say so when you book, since not every generator supplies it.

Euro Concrete Services delivers hire generators anywhere in County Cork, with bases in Cork city and Skibbereen, from a petrol generator for a day's work to an 80 kVA site unit. Ring Sean on 086 881 9848 with the address, what needs power and the dates. He will say which generator suits and when it can be delivered.

Delivery covers every part of the county: the city and its suburbs, Youghal and Midleton in the east, Mallow and Mitchelstown in the north, and Bandon through to Schull in the west. The site generators go out on their own wheeled chassis or canopy and need a level, firm spot near where the power is needed, while the petrol units are portable and can be carried into place. Say too whether the site has a secure spot for it overnight.