DIYbanter - View Single Post - Good place to buy secondary heat exchanger for Britony Combi 80 boiler?

Ed S wrote:
On 12 Oct 2005 19:09:37 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
(Ed S) writes:
Can anyone advise where is a good place to buy secondary heat
exchanger for Britony Combi 80 boiler? In the past, I have usually
bought locally from the Plumb Centre, but price was high. (about ?100,
IIRC). I'd like to buy one now, before the current one gets scaled
up. Mail order, perhaps... I live in a very hard water area and it
seems I have to replace the thing almost every year.

Is there some reason you don't take it out now (before it
completely blocks) and descale it? I descalled one on a
Baxi a couple of weeks ago -- it was very easy and made
the boiler work much better.

Thanks for the tip, but it's a weird heat exchanger with no
projections to attach pipes to. Otherwise I'd love to try descaling
it. To descale this one, it looks as though you'd need a purpose-built
descaler.

So, why not just put it in a bucket?