MagnaClean installation

[Useless@DIY]

I've had a look at the MagnaClean installation guide and it says it can be installed on horizontal pipework, but all the diagrams show the device itself being in a vertical position. Is having it installed horizontally likely to cause any problems?

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• Useless@DIY
• 6 Jan 2020

 

[Phil-De-Fridge]

While not a heating expert by far, I fitted one of these in the past for a friend and while you're correct the literature says it can be installed in horizontal pipework, everything else relates to the actual filter assembly being fitted in the vertical.

Q. Can I fit MagnaClean Professional horizontally?

A. MagnaClean Professional can be fitted in any orientation. Each isolation valve can rotate through 360° making it possible to install in a vertical position on horizontal pipework.

https://www.adey.com/themes/adey/assets/downloads/Pro_Installation.pdf

Edit: Since everything says to install vertical, I'd personally assume there's something to do with how the water travels through the filter that makes it as efficient as the manufacturers intended. Installing in any other orientation is likely to reduce performance.

Kind regards

Phil

 

[ianmcd]

No it cant be installed like that, no problem with it being installed on Horizontal pipes but the unit must be vertical, among other reasons , how are you going to bleed it like that ? all the air will be trapped in the top half , and when you open it to clean it all the water will run out

 

[DP]

With filter on its side, how is the air evacuated

 

[JohnD]

you cut the horizontal pipe, and remove the pipe clamps, and bend one side down a bit, and one side up a bit.

then fit the magnaclean vertically.

 

[Useless@DIY]

Thanks for all your replies. I'll ask the company that fitted it to come back and refit it vertically.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Thanks for all your replies. I'll ask the company that fitted it to come back and refit it vertically.

I would be asking for a different engineer. That is a joke.

Andy

 

[aptsys]

No it cant be installed like that,

It can. See picture in post #1.

It should always be installed with the canister in a vertical position though.

 

[ianmcd]

It can. See picture in post #1.

It should always be installed with the canister in a vertical position though.

Read the post it cant

 

[aptsys]

Read the post it cant

It's literally been done in the 1st post, so it can.

 

[ianmcd]

It's literally been done in the 1st post, so it can.

It has been fitted that way, the OP is asking if it will work, the answer is NO it wont

 

[aptsys]

It has been fitted that way, the OP is asking if it will work, the answer is NO it wont

That's not the answer you originally gave.

You can do anything you want, but it doesn't mean you should or that it will work.

Correct, it will not work.

 

[ianmcd]

That's not the answer you originally gave.

You can do anything you want, but it doesn't mean you should or that it will work.

Correct, it will not work.

stick to the drugs