ive. ????
Yes, I have tried to disconnect each end of a branch pipe and individually let the water flow through with the 2 Bar pressure from the system. It trickles through so I guessed that the longer it could keep trickling, then the fernox that I had put in would eventually loosen the scale and it would dissolve into the liquid to be flushed out.
The danger though comes from when I tried to pressure wash through a larger 15mm flow and return pipe to an extension. The silt just backed up against a blockage and the pressure 'blew' the pvc pipe (fortunately) just where the pipe entered the concrete floor. I obviously do not want to run the risk of blowing any of the joints in the parallel system under my main floor and therefore am wondering if anyone knows how to create a vacuum on the other end of the pipe to draw the residue out. I imagine something with a drop cannister/box to drop sediment into and yet be able to top up the vacuum as the 2 bars pressure pushes from flow side. Anybody??
By the way, the plumber who has recently moved the boiler is blaming the stainless steel inserts in the platic pipes for creating the sediment and says that now they are not being used and plastic ones are being used instead.
My own research suggests that filth and residue arises from when any work is done on a system and needs flushing out with the cleanser solution (as was done in 2000 when my Rayburn was changed for an oil boiler). The system then was fitted with the protecting solution and all was fine.
How comes my local builders supply has just supplied me with two stainless steel inserts if my plumbers words are true?
I thought that corrosion from steel radiators, boiler parts and residue from plumbing connections created this silt.
He also infers that all these underfloor heating systems installed over the last 20 years will create the next 20 years work for plumbers to install conventional radiators systems again.
Thoughts???
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