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Phil L Phil L is offline
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Default I've bought a new boiler

And would like some information WRT fitting it.
(please no lectures about Corgi registration claptrap)

The old boiler is still working, but not efficiently, and I have to do jobs
on it daily to get it to do it's thing, bits of elastoplast here and there,
string, elastic bands etc and not least, top it up every 6 hours due to an
expansion vessel problem - anyhoo, within days it's going in the skip, so
hurrah! etc.

My main question is about the radiators - they're quite old, at least 15
years, but the plumbing to them and to the existing boiler is only about 8,
my idea is to leave everything in place and just swap the boiler,
brilliant! - except....over the past few years, what with all the topping up
etc, there has been no inhibitor in the system and the water now is akin to
crude oil.
I took off all the downstairs rads last year and took them into the back
garden for a spot of hosepipe therapy, and the patio is still stained black,
so my question is this; should I take off all the rads and flush them out
manually (this is not a problem, even with the upstairs ones), or should I
use some other method of flushing out the system, which will also clean out
the pipework inbetween the rads, if so which / what, and how much? - bearing
in mind that I have just forked out my last £240 on a new boiler.


TIA

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Phil L
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