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Hi guys.

Got called to a property where the customer wants to get her pulsacoil 2000 replaced. I've was thinking of putting an unvented cylinder. But running a discharge pipe to outside or to a soil stack if complicated as laminated flooring will need to come up.
She wants something similar to the pulsa coil to minimise the cost of ripping off the laminate but she doesn't want the headaches she's had with the current pulsacoil.

What would you guys recommend as a good replacement for a pulsacoil 2000.

Thanks in advance

Andy
 
The Gledhill Pulsacoil BP. Much better than the 2000 model. Much more simple. Just a blending valve and two heating elements. Not cheap though.
 
Thanks for the heads up. The pulsacoil BP is about £30 more than a Megaflow of the same size. It also means less messing around with flooring.

Appriciate the help.
 
Boiler mate is more complicated than a 2000.
tell me about it 3 pumps 2 thermistors 1 pcb 1 clock 1 thermal store sensor and then they add insult to injury in these new builds by either mating it to a icos or only slightly better suprima and all; this is linked together with badly fitted speedfit
 
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Well before I get any grief for the speedfit connection to the BP I installed (right hand photo) Gledhill insist that you do not solder onto that connection!! For obvious reasons.

Yes you are right, they are generally badly installed, and often with a load of crap plastic plumbing. Plus things go in tandem with them. If a pump goes, the ACB will often go. They're junk.
 
That left hand phot I posted of the Pulsacoil 2000. Looks fine right. Well it had a terminal leak at the bottom, by the drain off.

We stripped it for the scrap (and out of interest). It was pockmarked with pin holes. Look:IMG_2422.jpg
 
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Posting your own photos up is a pain in the backside!! So random what it does. Uploads the same photo twice, when you've uploaded a different one?
 
Another option is the Albion Mainsflow, same idea no pcb ect :sunny:, lots of options available, I have swapped a couple of Gledhills for these. On the thermal store options the customers are chuffed they can time when the boiler comes on to heat the store rather than the Gledhill firing up overnight.
 
Another option is the Albion Mainsflow, same idea no pcb ect :sunny:, lots of options available, I have swapped a couple of Gledhills for these. On the thermal store options the customers are chuffed they can time when the boiler comes on to heat the store rather than the Gledhill firing up overnight.

Very interesting Kev will a take a look!
 
I don't like the Albion Mainsflow as they are poorly made & expensive. You basically get a grade 3 cylinder with a coil inside it made of microbore pipes for the mains water heat exchange, which being soft copper will rupture if the mains supply exceeds it's 3bar max. Then you get hot water running out of a plastic overflow pipe which is not clever. If the coil goes & it has with a lot of them, then the entire lot is scrap. The direct type can get a lot of gunge lying in the base which rots them, but guess that happens to other makes.
 
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Does that mean that the heater tank was used without an inhibitor?

If so it's not the fault of the manufacturer nor the installer, the user of the maintenace plumber must take full blame
 
Does that mean that the heater tank was used without an inhibitor?

If so it's not the fault of the manufacturer nor the installer, the user of the maintenace plumber must take full blame

Albion started to supply an inhibitor to their 'dead store' Mainsflow - the indirect combination type.
No problems with corrosion with it, but it is the direct type that are at risk of corrosion. The direct Mainsflows have the heating system water running directly through the cylinder (the mains water is through micro bore coils). This means a lot of the corrosion from steel rads & boiler will dump into the open cylinder & lie on the cylinder base & rot it. Inhibitor needs to be substantially greater for to allow for the extra volume of water in cylinder that adds to the heating system. I don't think inhibitor will stop corrosion.
 
Hi

Can anyone give me advice on what to change my PulsaCoil 2000 with?

I have looked at the PulsaCoil 2000 website and they recommend either the Tristor, the Eco-therm or the PulsaCoil PCS.

I have ruled out the PulsaCoil PCS as I don't want to have the issues I have had with this one.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

James
 
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