"Aidan" wrote in message
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kmillar wrote:

Are boilers designed to cope with this or is there a possibility of
cracking the heat exchanger?

It happens with commercial boilers, probably cast iron ones. It's
called thermal shock.

That is why they have back end protection, amongst others.






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