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Possible gas boiler replacement
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Condensing does not affect open or sealed.
Sorry my omission, I should have mentioned that I was going over to a combi and removing all the old ' open system ' tanks, valves and relevant pipework.
Spirotap is very good, especially the automatic air release.
The only problem is, they don't seem to want to sell any.
Even their named dealers don't stock them. It's alwasy a special order.
The Spirotap ? Spiro Top, is totally different to the Spirotrap MB2.
The Spiro Top is an automatic air vent only.
The SpiroTrap MB2 is a combined particle and magnetite filter.
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Yeah that'll be me because i'm always spouting nonsense on here. LOLYou or the poster?
May be that the maintainer has never been near the system since it was installed 15 years ago and the inhibitor isn't working any more. May be the maintainer hasn't been to that property before. May be you want to lump us all together and tar us all with the same brush.....may be.... Customers are notorious for ignoring their heating system until it goes wrong. Am I there to baby sit them? I can give them advice but I can't force them to have work done.Why is that that all these maintainer diagnoses are always that a power flush is needed, never that a reason why a power flush might be needed is that the system maintainer has negligently failed to dose with inhibitor?
Yes it will carry on working...if it's maintained. As above applies. It's no good if you walk away after installing the magnetic filter and never hear from the customer for 10 years, i.e. the next time it breaks down. If the system is bad the magnet will need cleaning regularly and often. On a particularly bad system I will often quote a powerflush AND recommend a magnet to offer lifetime protection.Or that a better mitigation might be to install a Magnaclean, something I think an independent could do for the BG power flush price but would carry on working every day for free?0 -
Why? I can't.MillicentBystander wrote: »Our Glowworm boiler is over 20 years old, working perfectly and never needed a repair of any kind. We have never had a power flush in the boiler's lifetime. I'm sure there are instances when a power flush is really needed but my suspicion is that there are probably many more instances when a power flush is not needed. It's such a shame that the plumbing trade seems to be so distrusted by the public but I can see why.0 -
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Originally Posted by MillicentBystander
It's such a shame that the plumbing trade seems to be so distrusted by the public but I can see why.ziggyman99 wrote: »Why? I can't.
It's because almost every heating tradesman considers him/herself an expert and that other opinions are just that, opinions. Listen to me they'll say, I know what I'm talking about. The evidence runs throughout this, and every similar thread.
But then again, one of the 'experts' on here has declared that my advice is based upon what I've read in Forums rather than practical experience . . . so it must be true, mustn't it? Speaks volumes for opinions when they are clearly drawn from hypothesis rather than fact.
Unfortunately too many heating engineer's use the mantra
"If you don't know, make it up"
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The Spirotap ? Spiro Top, is totally different to the Spirotrap MB2.
The Spiro Top is an automatic air vent only.
The SpiroTrap MB2 is a combined particle and magnetite filter.
I meant this lot:
http://www.spirotech.co.uk/
Spinal Tap, SpiroTrap, SpiroVent, it's getting too crowded in my head.
What I need is a cerebral implant like Keanu Reeves in Johny Mnemonic.0 -
I meant this lot:
http://www.spirotech.co.uk/
Spinal Tap, SpiroTrap, SpiroVent, it's getting too crowded in my head.
What I need is a cerebral implant like Keanu Reeves in Johny Mnemonic.
What I need is a cerebral implant like Keanu Reeves in Johny Mnemonic.
Book me in for one as well, as long as it will make me remember what I went upstairs for :rotfl: 0 -
It may or may not be correct. When you lack the proper training as well as the necessary experience, you are more than likely to interpret what you have read wrong.one of the 'experts' on here has declared that my advice is based upon what I've read in Forums rather than practical experience . . . so it must be true, mustn't it?
I've seen many an armchair expert or Google hero come up with answers that are partly correct but also have essential parts wrong in them.0
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