Need Advice – Heating Issues, Sludge Diagnosis, and Boiler Warranty Concerns

[Elsa TLC]

Always clean the header tanks if they have one.

 

[Elsa TLC]

 

[Elsa TLC]

Remove and clean the pump

 

[deemi786]

For transparency they were pretty competitive, covers 12 radiators, water test before and after, heat test before and after, thermal imaging, will not do it through the existing boiler as not to recontaminate it, all chemicals and inhibitor and descaler included, fixed price, 2 year guarantee £500 all including VAT.

 

[Elsa TLC]

For transparency they were pretty competitive, covers 12 radiators, water test before and after, heat test before and after, thermal imaging, will not do it through the existing boiler as not to recontaminate it, all chemicals and inhibitor and descaler included, fixed price, 2 year guarantee £500 all including VAT.

If they do a good job then that's a good price.
If they stand by their warranty then again that's good. But they can only be saying they guarantee that the water will not get dirty in that time.

Same as Diablo I'd be interested what you think once the jobs been completed.

You have educated yourself so just be there and count the minutes.

 

[Elsa TLC]

 

[DP]

Fair enough, looks like getting a new boiler is the only thing left, or maybe claiming under home insurance, I have home emergency cover for boiler and blocked pipes but maybe they will squirm out of that as well due to sludge build up....?

Would make sense to locate where the issue is.
Boiler may be fine

Not looked at any other posting on this thread when I replied

 

[dilalio]

Would make sense to locate where the issue is.
Boiler may be fine

Not looked at any other posting on this thread when I replied

Hex has been changed under warranty but system not yet flushed.

 

[Notch7]

About £450 for 9-10 rads.

thats a pretty good price, when I had my boiler installed last Jan, the plumber did a full power flush (which he did in the overall boiler price), which took him basically the whole days other than removing parts of the old system, he said he does powerflushes for one of those national companies and they charge the customer in the region of £700

I was around when the plumber did the flush and it certainly takes a long time, having to go round isolating each rad and spend time flushing each one. He also said he did both directions.

 

[Elsa TLC]

thats a pretty good price, when I had my boiler installed last Jan, the plumber did a full power flush (which he did in the overall boiler price), which took him basically the whole days other than removing parts of the old system, he said he does powerflushes for one of those national companies and they charge the customer in the region of £700

I was around when the plumber did the flush and it certainly takes a long time, having to go round isolating each rad and spend time flushing each one. He also said he did both directions.

Hello Notch

Its an hard day's work. Keeps me fit.
But I do strip things apart.
IIIf I don't think for any reason that I cant walk away happy that I've done a good job, then I'd rather not do the job.
 

I think the problem with these powerflush companies charging £500 all in then, what's left after they pay the engineer?

Any engineer with knowledge is going to want £300 a day.

I suspect that the engineers they recruit are not the best or the most conscientious.

 

[deemi786]

So had the powerflush today and my goodness has the heating come back to life, the radiators which we thought were awful before have suddenly sprung into life. Absolutely roasting hot in the household today! Started around 8:30am and finished off at 2:30pm. All 11 radiators were flushed, guy was really good at telling us we needed balancing done and gave me some advice on how to overcome a radiator that was leeching heat. Also told us one of the towel radiators was a bit buggered which we knew before to be honest. Water was an awful brown, rusty colour at first, tested it before and after, thermals looked all good and heating is all working. F and E tank cleaned and inhibitor placed (x100). All in all a good experience, lets hope it stays that way! Thanks everyone!

 

[CountryFan]

So had the powerflush today and my goodness has the heating come back to life, the radiators which we thought were awful before have suddenly sprung into life. Absolutely roasting hot in the household today! Started around 8:30am and finished off at 2:30pm. All 11 radiators were flushed, guy was really good at telling us we needed balancing done and gave me some advice on how to overcome a radiator that was leeching heat. Also told us one of the towel radiators was a bit buggered which we knew before to be honest. Water was an awful brown, rusty colour at first, tested it before and after, thermals looked all good and heating is all working. F and E tank cleaned and inhibitor placed (x100). All in all a good experience, lets hope it stays that way! Thanks everyone!

Great news and at least you're no longer skeptical about a power flush

 

[dilalio]

Couple of photos of one I did on Wednesday. Got 4 mag rods out like in the photo.

British Gas installed new boiler 2 years ago and "cleaned the system"!

Yeah, like fook they did!