Inline scale inhibitor.

[TomLane]

Have been asked what I would recommend for a inline scale inhibitor?

Not really my specialist subject area & would be interested to know for my own information too.

Thanks all.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

just for a boiler or whole house?

 

[TomLane]

just for a boiler or whole house?

Whole house.

 

[Ray Stafford]

I wouldn't recommend any of them. If scale is a problem, it can only be sorted by properly softening the water, not by an inline scale inhibitor. At best, the latter will only mitigate the symptoms - a bit like taking paracetemol for a headache, instead of having the brain tumour removed.

However, it isn't always feasible to do the whole thing, so if I absolutely had to, I would suggest a Hydropath HS38

But they are expensive, so people rarely take my advice and end up sticking in a £15 magnetic conditioner which might possibly have some benefit for a single appliance, but virtually none for a whole property.

 

[Rickster123]

We fit the hydro on all combis fitted on a housing contract. Thought they were cheap and cheerful. How much are they out of interest?

 

[TomLane]

I wouldn't recommend any of them. If scale is a problem, it can only be sorted by properly softening the water, not by an inline scale inhibitor. At best, the latter will only mitigate the symptoms - a bit like taking paracetemol for a headache, instead of having the brain tumour removed.

However, it isn't always feasible to do the whole thing, so if I absolutely had to, I would suggest a Hydropath HS38

But they are expensive, so people rarely take my advice and end up sticking in a £15 magnetic conditioner which might possibly have some benefit for a single appliance, but virtually none for a whole property.

Thanks Rayvon, appreciate the honest advice!

How handy you just happen to be a stockist of the Hydropath's ;-)

 

[Ray Stafford]

How handy you just happen to be a stockist of the Hydropath's ;-)

We stock about 5 Tom, and the Hydropath is just the strongest dose of paracetamol - if you will forgive me for stretching the analogy from above.

 

[Ray Stafford]

We fit the hydro on all combis fitted on a housing contract. Thought they were cheap and cheerful. How much are they out of interest?

£85 + the dreaded

 

[TomLane]

We stock about 5 Tom, and the Hydropath is just the strongest dose of paracetamol - if you will forgive me for stretching the analogy from above.

Forgiven, but only because I may use it on the customer!

 

[Chalked]

Scale reducers are just that, reducers.
They will take out at best 1 degree of hardness. But if your water is 16-20 degrees of hardness, 1 degree is nothing. You still gave hard water.
They are not that bad at stopping to some extent, mildly hard water from depositing lime scale to a heat exchanger. But even then , it's hit and miss!

Like Ray says. It's like throwing a parecetomol at a brain tumour