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Here’s a conversation we have most weeks. Someone’s had three quotes for a new boiler. Two of them include cleaning the system, one doesn’t — and the one that doesn’t is cheaper.
It’s a fair question to ask why. So here’s the honest answer: putting a brand new boiler onto a dirty heating system is the fastest way to ruin it, and the cheap quote is cheap because it’s leaving out something that isn’t optional.
When you have a new boiler fitted, you get handed a folder. Somewhere in it is a manual, and near the back of that manual are a couple of pages of boxes and signatures.
If you live in Worcestershire, you already know about limescale. It’s the chalky crust on the kettle element, the white spots on the shower screen, the taps that never quite look clean.
What you can’t see is the same stuff building up inside your boiler. That’s what an electrolytic scale reducer is there to slow down — and it’s a small, cheap device that a lot of homeowners have never heard of.
Here’s a straight explanation of what it is, what it does, and just as importantly, what it doesn’t do.
You turn the kitchen tap off and the pipes go bang. Or the washing machine fills, clicks shut, and something thumps under the floorboards like someone’s hit a pipe with a hammer.
It’s called water hammer, and it’s one of the most common calls we get that isn’t a breakdown. The usual cure is a small device called a mini expansion vessel or a shock arrestor — two things that look similar, do related jobs, and get muddled up constantly.
Here’s what they are and why modern houses need them far more than old ones did.
If you’ve had a new boiler fitted in the last few years, there’s a good chance your engineer installed a small canister looking device, onto the pipework underneath it. Most people never ask what it is. It’s a central heating filter, and it’s quietly one of the most useful bits of kit in your house.
Here’s what it does, why it matters, and how to keep it working.
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