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Triple Point provide central
heating maintenance, repair and power flushing services.
What is Power Flushing?
Corrosion within central heating systems accounts for
90% of all system/boiler failures.
| Symptoms
include: |
• Noises or smells from boiler. |
| • Some radiators have cold areas. |
| • High running costs. |
| • Repeated pump failure. |
| • System slow to warm up. |
| • Repeated radiators bleeding. |
Power flushing is the most efficient and effective method of
cleansing a central heating system. The principle is to create
a powerful fresh water flow under controlled conditions to remove
debris from the system.
By connecting the power flushing unit to the heating circuit
in place of the system pump, boiler or radiator the circuit
can be thoroughly cleansed of limescale and corrosion debris.
How does it work?
The power flushing pump is simply connected
into the heating system, either across standard circulator
pump couplings, across the tails of one radiator, or wherever
most practicable.
The powerful flow, combined with instantaneous flow reverser
device, will dislodge and mobilise deposits and corrosion
which resist traditional system cleaning methods.
Once the corrosion and sludge deposits have been loosened
and mobilised, fresh clean water is forced through the
heating system, pushing the contaminated water out through
a full bore dump valve to waste. |
 |
During the process, radiators are individually flushed, without
removing or disconnecting them from the system, by directing
the full output of the pump through each radiator separately.
At the end of the flushing process, the system contains fresh
clean water and reinstatement of the system to normal operation
takes only a few minutes.
System flushing will NOT remedy design or mechanical faults,
which should be rectified, but in many cases it will cure the
problems caused by these.
Why Powerflush?
| Power Flushing is used to prevent: |
| • |
Fuel wastage -
Without treatment, corrosion debris will accumulate in
the boiler causing increasing limescale deposits, reduced
heat transfer and up to a third of a fuel bill going to
complete waste. |
| • |
Boiler noise - This increases
in frequency and intensity as deposits of sludge and scale
build up in an unprotected boiler. |
| • |
Cold spots - The familiar
cool low central area of a radiator indicates a build-up
of black sludge sediment that restricts flow and reduces
heat. |
| • |
Frequent venting - When the
top of a radiator is cold during operation, either air
or hydrogen is to blame. Hydrogen gas builds up as a by-product
of electrolytic corrosion and is flammable (due caution
is required). |
| • |
Pump seizure and failure -
The abrasive and magnetic properties of black oxide sludge
increase shaft and bearing wear in pumps causing them
to stick or fail. |
All new systems should be pre-commission cleansed in accordance
with BS:7593 and Benchmark. This ensures flux residues, excess
jointing compounds, mineral oil and other contaminants that
can be found in the system following installation, and that
can effect the performance of the system or cause component
failure, are removed.
Powerflushing prolongs
heating system life.
CALL
NOW: 0800 037 6525
For all your home maintenance needs in Edinburgh and surrounding
areas, from repairs to installations, you can rely on the professionalism
and care of Triple Point.
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