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Softus, The heat exchanger is around the same age as the boiler, around 17 years old. Our water is softish (not much scale in kettles). "Gas" - just a non-chemist's term for whatever separates from water when it is heated. The pipe from the boiler to the heat exchanger is tee-d into...

Thanks, all! Why sludge remover? A gas engineer identified dull "popping" as he ran the boiler. I found brown sludge in the header tank. The system contains some 25year old radiators. The X400 cam eout brown, but this may be a marketing ploy to make the user think that it's having some...

Folks, Our 1989 Gloworm Hideaway has the CH pump mounted directly above it. When the pump starts, there is the sound of rushing air, which then "bubbles" into nearby radiators. The noise only occours at start-up - there are no notable air sounds when the system is running. And it only...