Best heating treatment

[j Denver]

Had a Maxi Platinum combo fitted to old plumbing 5 years ago, the system was flushed and a inhibitor was added at the time.

I now need to add another radiator so as I'm draining down what's the best inhibitor/scaler to use.

I have a water softener in the house and the boiler has a Adey magnetic filtration unit fitted (which is cleaned out annually).

 

[WC1]

Sentinel inhibitor for me. As your'e doing works, why not give it a flush?

 

[Harvest Fields]

What was in there before? Do you remember? Would be better to use the same stuff or you will need to flush all the old stuff out.

 

[j Denver]

I wondered that, I believe it was Sentinel x100 but not totally sure.

 

[Harvest Fields]

I wondered that, I believe it was Sentinel x100 but not totally sure.

The gut is normally right mate. If you think it is x100. Put some more in. How many rads do you have?

 

[j Denver]

Righto. We have 2 doubles and 7 singles including the one i'm about to add.

 

[Aire]

1 bottle of x100 will be fine for 10 radiators. I presume your water softener feeds your boiler, just remember you can't fill the boiler with artificially softened water so unless you have a filling loop which bypasses the water softener, you will need to shut off your softener and open the bypass valve, run the hot tap for a couple of minutes to flush any soft water out your system, and then you can fill your heating back up.

 

[Harvest Fields]

As above. 1 bottle should be fine mate.

 

[j Denver]

Didn't realise about the soft water, believe it was filled when installed with soft water. I guess I'll need to flush though anyway now and refill with the soft water unit bypassed. Thanks for the advice.

 

[SimonG]

Loved Annie's Song by the way.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Loved Annie's Song by the way.

Didn’t make that connection.