blocked secondary h exchange

[ansell0]

hi all need some help please, i had a new boiler fitted on the cheap and it seems like the bloke who done it never flushed or cleaned the system first. now ive had to take the secondary h/exchange out 4 times now to clean it because it keeps getting blocked with little black bits?? rust??? whatever it is and stopping my dhw getting hot it was fine at first then kept getting less hot until virtualy lukewarm until i clean the h/e out then its red hot again .can anyone advise me please..

 

[gassafe]

Should have accepted the more expensive quote, would probs have got a powerflush and magnaclean fitted!

Try calling back the installer / bloke...

 

[Gray0689]

hi all need some help please, i had a new boiler fitted on the cheap and it seems like the bloke who done it never flushed or cleaned the system first. now ive had to take the secondary h/exchange out 4 times now to clean it because it keeps getting blocked with little black bits?? rust??? whatever it is and stopping my dhw getting hot it was fine at first then kept getting less hot until virtualy lukewarm until i clean the h/e out then its red hot again .can anyone advise me please..

Seems you got what you paid for
A cheap crap job

 

[ansell0]

yes suppose you get what you pay for and i have fitted a fernox tf1 to the system on the return pipe done it all by the instructions and it still bypasses the tf1 and blocking my h/e up???????????? what else can i do now???

 

[ansell0]

do i need a power flush?????

 

[Gray0689]

yes suppose you get what you pay for and i have fitted a fernox tf1 to the system on the return pipe done it all by the instructions and it still bypasses the tf1 and blocking my h/e up???????????? what else can i do now???

Get a decent plumber in

 

[ansell0]

but if its something i can do , might save me some money

 

[Gray0689]

I see you want another cheap job lol
Have you not learnt your lesson yet

 

[Hardy1]

but if its something i can do , might save me some money

not being funny mate buttt, you aint going to be able to save money on a job like this , this happens everyday to people that done know anything about having gas work done, Firstly and most importantly i cannot stress enough and im pretty sure every other gsre on this forum feels this way- was he Gas Safe Registered?, 2ndly did you have a the system flused?, and correct chemicals and inhibitor added? if not then your in trouble as it also invalidates your manufacturers warranty, get a gas safe engineer in, he''l sort it or maybe not, we dont like sorting sumone elses work out so be prepared for the bill, not being rude or anything but im pretty sure that everyone that has viewed this has thought exactly what im thinking(not going to go into it),
get a gsr engineer out he'l sort it, good luck.

 

[gassafe]

Yep, we all lose work to the "cash in hand bloke" so i dont have much sympathy when stuff like this happens... in fact it makes me feel warm inside =]

 

[Hybrid]

This is a wind up.

 

[moony]

could need new rads.

most probably needs a good flush, rads taking off, cleaned out etc etc.

probably get it done for 300-400 quid (prob more than you paid for the labour on the boiler installation)