Boiler install at the weekend. Cheapest chemicals and TRV's?

[armyash]

Hi guys I have a combi swap to do at the weekend (for my landlord). He wants the cheapest of everything, what are the cheapest cleaning chemicals and inhibitor available and also will be using cheapest TRV's I can get. Any recommendations?

Thanks

 

[SimonG]

I spoke with a Fernox rep last night who said an "A " Rated condensing boiler could be de-rated to "C/D" within weeks of installation
without the use of a quality inhibitor, due to scale.

Maybe because he was the fernox rep?

 

[armyash]

I spoke with a Fernox rep last night who said an "A " Rated condensing boiler could be de-rated to "C/D" within weeks of installation
without the use of a quality inhibitor, due to scale.

That's interesting and good to know but I doubt my landlord will be interested.

 

[Kyle87]

I'd not bother with the trv's and make sure you put a filter in if its to be cost effective.

Surely the saving in heating bills isn't going to off set the cost of all the things that go wrong with the boiler because you don't have a filter to protect it.

 

[Ermintrude]

Bulldog trv & locksheild £6. Not much more budget than that tbh!

 

[cava55]

Cheap filter screwfix Nonsense looks just like the magna ! dunno if its as good ?.

 

[Kyle87]

Cheap filter screwfix Nonsense looks just like the magna ! dunno if its as good ?.

It has a real short magnet. I haven't fitted one as it looks like tescos own brand of filter with te big no nonsense sticker but I was pulling one apart in plumbfix jut to have a look

 

[Ray Stafford]

I'd not bother with the trv's and make sure you put a filter in if its to be cost effective.

Surely the saving in heating bills isn't going to off set the cost of all the things that go wrong with the boiler because you don't have a filter to protect it.

Somehow central heating managed to last from Roman times to 2005 without magnetic filters.

 

[cava55]

Don't think the romans had stainless and aluminium heat exchanger's that clog up ! lol

 

[Kyle87]

Somehow central heating managed to last from Roman times to 2005 without magnetic filters.

But the Romans didn't fit boilers that wasn't built to last so the greedy manufacturers can get a lifetime income out of supplying parts to the tat they sold you in the first place

 

[Kyle87]

The Romans were so good at making stuff that the stuff outlasted the Romans.

A modern boiler won't outlast the life of your kids hamster

 

[Ray Stafford]

Bulldog trv & locksheild £6. Not much more budget than that tbh!

Thats a good deal.

 

[JAH HEATING]

The likes of say Pts own brand, who makes them ?

 

[Killy Bing]

The likes of say Pts own brand, who makes them ?

I think the boss range is pegler in disguise ?

 

[JAH HEATING]

I think the boss range is pegler in disguise ?

Was thinking more of the chemicals mate

 

[FD Powerflow]

That's interesting and good to know but I doubt my landlord will be interested.

To be honest you might as well not bother putting most own brand in. If your landlord is that tight that he wants to save £4 and risk his heating system then he deserves to have BG come and give him a quote for £900 for a powerflush in two years time (give him my number). Not getting personal Army, it just seemed that in my day we cared about the quality of work and products we put in whereas in all walks of life now there is always someone who will do the job cheaper with little or no thought about long term consequences.