Powerflushing

[Riley]

More often than not mine are boiler swaps with a busted boiler so no heat. Surely we should still be testing that there is a change in the water? Going back to the cover my arse comment. I know several guys that plug in the powerflusher then literally don't touch the system other than to change direction and dump the dirty water out. Do we not owe our customers a bit more in terms of service if we are charging a decent wedge??

 

[ShaunCorbs]

More often than not mine are boiler swaps with a busted boiler so no heat. Surely we should still be testing that there is a change in the water? Going back to the cover my arse comment. I know several guys that plug in the powerflusher then literally don't touch the system other than to change direction and dump the dirty water out. Do we not owe our customers a bit more in terms of service if we are charging a decent wedge??

The thing is how many people other than bg do a power flush on a swap if no problems

I don't just use big mag and x800 or adey and run for 2-3 hours

It comes down to who your competition and what are they pricing for

 

[Riley]

Sorry mate that wasn't a dig at anyone on here I'm just trying to market the service but ensure that I offer it in as professional a way as I can. I have a small estate by me which I assume was all installed by the same guy and 12 years down the line all bar 3 out of 20 something houses have extremely poorly installed open vented systems which are filthy. eight or nine of them have the same landlord and he has asked for them all to be sorted properly so that is a good little earner but I want to obviously correct the systems first and then give him something in terms of works carried out and comparative cleanliness before and after figures if you will. I may be over thinking it as any of us here would be able to clearly see the difference between a clean and a dirty system but I just wonder if the customer should expect more?? Maybe not?!?!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Sorry mate that wasn't a dig at anyone on here I'm just trying to market the service but ensure that I offer it in as professional a way as I can. I have a small estate by me which I assume was all installed by the same guy and 12 years down the line all bar 3 out of 20 something houses have extremely poorly installed open vented systems which are filthy. eight or nine of them have the same landlord and he has asked for them all to be sorted properly so that is a good little earner but I want to obviously correct the systems first and then give him something in terms of works carried out and comparative cleanliness before and after figures if you will. I may be over thinking it as any of us here would be able to clearly see the difference between a clean and a dirty system but I just wonder if the customer should expect more?? Maybe not?!?!

the thing you have to think of will he understand all the td values or a pic that he can see of sludge in the rads

 

[Rickster123]

I didn't know you had such strong morals Riley!

Was gonna offer you some knocked off chems but I'll keep my gob shut...

 

[Last Plumber]

More often than not mine are boiler swaps with a busted boiler so no heat. Surely we should still be testing that there is a change in the water? Going back to the cover my arse comment. I know several guys that plug in the powerflusher then literally don't touch the system other than to change direction and dump the dirty water out. Do we not owe our customers a bit more in terms of service if we are charging a decent wedge??

I only charge the time it takes and chemic used If I don't use machine.

If I use it it's done as you would have learnt on course. proper job and I charge the day because it will take a day to do it properly and the machine gets charged for too,

In my experience power flushing can cause probs so I only do it if it really needs it.

Also, the water in my area is really good so luckily we don't have any major issues.

If system is installed correctly there's no real issue with corrosion.

 

[Last Plumber]

I did find that the Acid cleaner was a nightmare though.

One job I did years ago, I'm flushing system and machine levels started dropping so I topped it up but they kept falling, this is a good half way into job by the way and using Acid.

I switched off and ran up into loft thinking Stop end had come off vent pipe but no !

Run around house, sweating looking for where water was going.

The boiler must have been on the verge of leaking through heat ex ( oil Boiler ). and the Acid and higher pressure cleaned out the corrosion inside the boiler and it started peeing out the side. Floor wet, Acidic water, grumpy customer......Felt like crying. End of acid cleaners.

 

[Riley]

I didn't know you had such strong morals Riley!

Was gonna offer you some knocked off chems but I'll keep my gob shut...

There's morals and good business mate

 

[Riley]

the thing you have to think of will he understand all the td values or a pic that he can see of sludge in the rads

You make a very good point mate. I'm kind of thinking half customer half manufacturer as They should obviously understand the water requirements and I can prove to them that what I've done meets there requirements

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You make a very good point mate. I'm kind of thinking half customer half manufacturer as They should obviously understand the water requirements and I can prove to them that what I've done meets there requirements

In manufacturing terms they won't care as seen before they slated the water quality and it was fine but they still didn't support warrenty

So I read it as they don't offer warrenty full stop and all you can do is your best