The Importance of Unblocking Radiators and Keeping Your Heating System Efficient
One crucial aspect of heating system maintenance is ensuring that your radiators are unblocked and clean, allowing the hot water to circulate freely through the system. Powerflush Solutions North West can help keep your heating system in top condition.
How does Powerflushing work?
On arrival, the whole system is put into operation and each radiator is checked to determine where the problem areas are. The power flushing machine is connected to the heating system, either across the circulator pump couplings or across the boiler isolation valves.
A preliminary flush is carried out to remove all circulating sludge and debris from the system. This is followed by adding a chemical cleanser to the system which is allowed to circulate around the system for up to 2 hours. The powerful flow, combined with an instantaneous flow reverser device, will dislodge and suspend deposits and corrosion which resist traditional system cleaning methods.
The cyclone construction directs contaminated water through a high-power magnetic field so that even the smallest of particles are retained on the central magnets, from which they are cleaned during and after the power flushing process. Larger particles, which may otherwise lead to blockages in small bore pipework, are also prevented from re-entering the heating system.
Once the corrosion and sludge deposits have been loosened and mobilised, a third and final flush is completed using fresh clean water which is forced through the heating system pushing the remaining 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 power flush machine's pump through each radiator separately. On severely blocked radiators an electronic vibraclean radiator hammer is used to vibrate each individual radiator, this helps loosen any remaining sludge or debris in the bottom of the radiators to ensure they are completely clear.
At the end of the flushing process, the system contains fresh clean water. Inhibitor is then added to the system to give long-term anti-corrosion protection. Each radiator is checked for TDS (totally dissolved solids) levels, which must be within 10ppm of the property tap water. On completion a Powerflush certificate will be issued to show the system has been power flushed to BS 7953-2006. System flushing will not remedy design or mechanical faults, which should be rectified, but in most cases, it will cure the problems caused by them.
Choose Powerflush Solutions North West for central heating flushing.
Call us now on 01204 403 145 or Ian on 07703 832 622
