Boiler kettling? Banging pipes etc

[Gav74]

It is worth giving system a chemical clean. For £15 you can buy a litre of Sentinel X400 and let it circulate for 4 weeks before you drain it out, rinse, and add inhibitor. It is nopt time critical so you can do it at your leisure, but after 4 weeks it starts to lose its power.

If your system is an old open vented one, it will usually have a lot of black sediment in it, and this is one of the things that clogs pumps and wears them out.

Thanks, I guess now is the time to do it before winter comes around again!

 

[JohnD]

you can let the heating circulate round the rads, but with the boiler stat turned down to save gas

 

[Agile]

You may think its time to do it now!

But I would say that you should wait until the weather turns cold and the heating is required.

The desludgers work best when circulated warm for many hours a day as in normal heating use.

Why waste gas heating a property now!

If there was really a reason for doing it now then use X800 and just run the heating for about six hours. That would be a total waste of gas though.

Tony

 

[Gav74]

I would say that you should wait until the weather turns cold and the heating is required.

The desludgers work best when circulated warm for many hours a day as in normal heating use.

Why waste gas heating a property now!

If there was really a reason for doing it now then use X800 and just run the heating for about six hours. That would be a total waste of gas though.

Thanks Tony, being a DIYer, I'm just wary about doing any kind of maintenance when the system in question is most needed but I take your point. I'll save it for when we first start using the heating again.