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To the OP: Is yours a vented system? If so, can't you save the water and put
it back into the header tank so as not to lose the inhibitor? That's what I do. You can even if it's a sealed system. For my secondary circuit that provides heating to my workshop, I decided to use an inhibitor containing an anti-freeze - Fernox Alphi-11. To achieve what I felt to be a good margin of minimum temperature, several containers were needed and it is fairly expensive. I therefore fitted two filling points. One is in the house and mains water can be used in the normal way. The other is in the workshop together with a drain point. The expansion vessel is also in the workshop. I can isolate the garage part of the circuit from the house with two valves. I made up a filling gizmo consisting of a garden sprayer with several plumbing fittings attached to the wand to adapt it to fit the filling point. I can drain part or all of the system and collect the water. I can then pump it back in using the sprayer. There is enough oomph in these things than I can just about get 2 bar, so in effect I can repressurise using the old water. Since the sprayer is about the same cost as a dose of regular Fernox, it may well be worth something like this during extended plumbing operations. |
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