Power flush

[Dee]

Estimated cost to power flush of 19 rads? In Suffolk?

Edited yesterday at 15:25 by Dee

[JohnMo]

Ask a plumber?

[Dee]

I have! None have bothered to respond!!

[JohnMo]

Ask others? Are you talking to them? Phone them.

[Onoff]

[Nickfromwales]

20 hours ago, Dee said:

Estimated cost to power flush of 19 rads? In Suffolk?

Any reason to flush? You’ve drained this down a number of times and have some new valves here and there?

 

Water still grotty, or just cool spots on rads? 

[Onoff]

Power flushing won't necessarily work if your boiler is goosed. 

[Dee]

The boiler is 2 yrs old.

Only drained fown once in 20yrs. The last rad I took of was very black so just assumed a good flush would eliminate one less question mark...?

One rad is very temperamental. I'm genuinely too scared to run the heating too long to rebalance due to cost.!

[marshian]

17 minutes ago, Dee said:

The boiler is 2 yrs old.

Only drained fown once in 20yrs. The last rad I took of was very black so just assumed a good flush would eliminate one less question mark...?

One rad is very temperamental. I'm genuinely too scared to run the heating too long to rebalance due to cost.!

cost of a power flush buys a lot of gas at 6p per kWh - if a power flush us lets say £500 you’d be better of using it to purchase 8500 kWh of gas - that’ll more than cover most of the winter needs.

 

 

[Onoff]

1 hour ago, Dee said:

The boiler is 2 yrs old.

Only drained fown once in 20yrs. The last rad I took of was very black so just assumed a good flush would eliminate one less question mark...?

One rad is very temperamental. I'm genuinely too scared to run the heating too long to rebalance due to cost.!

 

You should really have had a power flush at the time of the new boiler maybe? A cruddy old system can as I understand it block even a newish boiler. 

 

Old man had BG install a new boiler and they didn't flush the old system first. Had repeated issues thereafter. Changed multiple parts and at one point even removed the mag filter they had previously fitted. Utter farce tbh.

[SimonD]

1 hour ago, Dee said:

The boiler is 2 yrs old.

Only drained fown once in 20yrs. The last rad I took of was very black so just assumed a good flush would eliminate one less question mark...?

One rad is very temperamental. I'm genuinely too scared to run the heating too long to rebalance due to cost.!

 

As @Onoff says, the system should be flushed as part of a boiler installation. Many boiler slingers will just do a chemical flush or nothing at all.

 

Whilst I always complete a flush when installing new boilers if someone I haven't done an install for asks me, I usually send them to British Gas as they used to have a lifetime guarantee for their flushing jobs.

[Nickfromwales]

@Dee, who fitted the boiler and did they flush it?