what percentage of fitters own a powerflush machine

[AWheating]

if open vent then power flush is normally what i suggest. sealed i tend to mains flush each rad at a time, unless the old boiler had corrosion issues. magnetic filter on every install bar new system which is then an added option. dont believe in magnacleanse alone, need high flow rates, reverse flow aswell as just a magnet.

yes i own a machine. i like acid chems.

 

[Ted808]

I try my best at pf but i never feel like it's that successful. Recently after a power flush, one rad, on the top floor, didn't heat up but the pipe to the valve was hot- drained a little, to access valve. When I took valve off there was a bit of crud hard as coal sitting in the pipe! Wasn't there before....I then prayed there's not more stuck anywhere else. It is open vented, with circulation problems to grnd floor rads. Y plan and magfilter installed on the flow / not the return-So much more of a problem than I thought... what do I say to the customer?? This is gonna cost you? Should have taken more pics...

 

[Harvest Fields]

With a power flush adding minimum £150-250 to a boiler install and the time needed, I sometimes think i'm one of a few giving the system a full power flush. If your fitting a budget boiler with a one year guarantee why would you worry.
Before I had my own machine I used to hook the system up to the mains and blast it through. What do you think, is a power flusher really needed?

Yes it is definitely needed

 

[Last Plumber]

Bring back the BF Glow Worm Hideaway I say.

 

[Darren Jackson]

I always use my power flush machine and I use it in conjunction with my magna-cleanse at the same time and use a drill attachment on hammer to agitate each rad. I prefer sentinel chemicals myself but each to their own. If the customer doesn't want it doing then they can employ the guy down the pub to fit their boiler. I just go back a month later to put everything right and report it.

 

[Harvest Fields]

X800 for me. Can be a bit frothy though. Then some MC1

 

[Watts]

Any recommended brands for power flush machines? Looking to invest in one myself.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Any recommended brands for power flush machines? Looking to invest in one myself.

I have a KAMCO CF40 and I use my magnacleanse in-line with it.

 

[jtsplumbing]

Got one don't use it much, when I lived near Ascot it got used all the time down in the SW because of soft water don't seem to get the same level of sludge in the systems + most systems are now sealed and have been so for almost 20 years since combi's became poplar, find here a chemical flush with good quality materials and a good filter do the job.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Got one don't use it much, when I lived near Ascot it got used all the time down in the SW because of soft water don't seem to get the same level of sludge in the systems + most systems are now sealed and have been so for almost 20 years since combi's became poplar, find here a chemical flush with good quality materials and a good filter do the job.

Fitted this the other day on a system, 24 hours before a powerflush. Without any x800 in and that’s what I got out.