Cheap Inhibitor.

[Roger Welton]

And you can use the pump as a bubble machine

 

[mountainman]

Fairy Liquid is Soooo versatile, not forgetting that it's kind to your hands too 🙂

 

[stratobuddy]

Just come back from buying some after your recommendations.


I can't find anywhere to pour it in the boiler, so can I disconnect the shower head (which is easy for me to do) then pour it into the shower pipe before replacing the head?

 

[kay-jay]

Just come back from buying some after your recommendations.


I can't find anywhere to pour it in the boiler, so can I disconnect the shower head (which is easy for me to do) then pour it into the shower pipe before replacing the head?

Lmao are you serious?

Not sure what You mean? Fairy liquid will do no harm in a shower hose but under no circumstances do you want to be adding inhibitor.

Call a plumber!

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[Hybrid]

Give the guy some credit kay-jay lol!

 

[kay-jay]

Credit! What for? I doubt he rushed out to buy fairy on our recommendation so i can only assume he plans to add inhibitor via shower hose Lmao 🙄

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[mountainman]

He could be jerking your chain!

It's bank holiday weekend and this may be a tentative foray into the land of superior engineers by the inferior sparks forum. 🙂🙂🙂

 

[desrob]

company called orbas rang me today,offered me a inibitor wras approved £6inc vat for a litre.

 

[mountainman]

I just Googled Orbas Inhibitor, evidently its Albanian for Fairy Liquid.
Computers are amazing!

 

[Dannypipe]

Or buy a WRAS approved one from Toolstation for £6 a litre and collect it as you pay.

Personally for my own heating system (which is new, I fitted it this year) I put the £6 Toolstation inhibitor in and on top of that I put a bottle of Fernox F1. That way I know the system is over dosed and corrosion will be minimal.

For customers I have two different standards. Sentinal/Fernox for customers who have a decent heating system that they are pro-actively maintaining.....and the £6 Toolstation own brand for the customers who clearly don't give a monkeys and have only got you there because something has gone wrong.

It's always up to the customer if they want it, but I strongly push corrosion inhibitor as it makes good sense in the long term.

 

[desrob]

I just Googled Orbas Inhibitor, evidently its Albanian for Fairy Liquid.
Computers are amazing!

he had a strong scouse accent,evidently his mothers ,brother sons 3rd child was to albanian shoe shiner whose brother played billards for hungry due to a great great grandad been born there

 

[Dotty]

Naked billiards?

 

[mountainman]

Naked billiards?

The tone of the thread has just hit rock bottom lol.

 

[Dotty]

The tone of the thread has just hit rock bottom lol.

That's my purpose on the forum!

 

[Guest123]

Naked billiards?

You a Royalist mate per chance?

aka big fan of Prince Harry, the punk Prince. His poster on his wall of the Pistols version of God Save The Queen was pure class and I bet grannie wasn't too chuffed about it either!

 

[petercj]

Naked billiards?

It's not easy when you've got three balls and nowhere to hide!

 

[stratobuddy]

Going back to the serious point of someone recommending adding fairy liquid to central heating systems, there is a large curved pipe at the top of my boiler which goes through the wall to the outside. I've just noticed that there is a removable bung in this pipe, so perhaps that is where I should pour in the fairy liquid??

 

[kay-jay]

Going back to the serious point of someone recommending adding fairy liquid to central heating systems, there is a large curved pipe at the top of my boiler which goes through the wall to the outside. I've just noticed that there is a removable bung in this pipe, so perhaps that is where I should pour in the fairy liquid??

Just to be clear, you are asking for advice on where to shove it?😱

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[stratobuddy]

Just to be clear, you are asking for advice on where to shove it?😱

Well, my previous suggestion wasn't approved.

So where would you shove it?

 

[petercj]

Well, my previous suggestion wasn't approved.

So where would you shove it?

Well it depends on how inhibited you are! ;-)

But personally, I don't think a gentleman ever answers a question like that!

 

[kay-jay]

Well, my previous suggestion wasn't approved.

So where would you shove it?

I've a couple of suggestions for you lol

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[kay-jay]

Seriously though it is a very bad idea to add fairy

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[Guest123]

Joking aside, Stratobuddy, you do not have enough experience to fill a system with chemicals and should leave well alone. You will end up causing more damage than good and I recommend that you get a experienced engineer in to do this and follow his advice. That way you'll learn how to do it properly for the next time.

Please don't mess about with boilers either. Adding the wrong chemical treatments is potentially very dangerous. The same goes, for adding chemicals to a heating system. If you don't know where to apply these, you could end up adding these to the domestic hot water system in error, with potentially serious consequences for anyone who comes in contact with them. Remember, many of these chemicals are very corrosive and also very dangerous in the wrong hands.

Please heed this advice as a friendly but knowledgeable warning.

 

[petercj]

I'm pretty sure Stratobuddy has been joking - he mentioned on another thread that his system has recently been refilled and topped up with inhibitor.

I've heard it said by experienced engineers that a small squirt of fairy in the header tank helps to clear air from the system, but obviously not as an inhibitor.

Anyone used a Jif lemon to descale a boiler with?

 

[stratobuddy]

I'm pretty sure Stratobuddy has been joking - he mentioned on another thread that his system has recently been refilled and topped up with inhibitor.

I'm glad someone understands my sense of humour lol.

My plumber removed the smallest rad, put his thumbs over the opening and took it outside to empty.

Then he put the required bottles of inhibitor into it, and refitted it quickly before it ran out again.

I'm not sure if this is a conventional method, but there was no other way that I could see (eg there is no filter fitted to add inhibitor into).

I have just designed an invention, any comments? It is a pressurised gadget that you put the inhib into (when unpressurised), then you pump it up (with a built-in bicycle type pump) until it is greater than the system pressure. Once the gadget is pressurised, disconnect the mains water supply end of the fill loop and connect to the gadget. Open the boiler end filling tap, then open the tap of the gadget. The higher pressure in the gadget will force the inhib into the system. Then close the valves and reconnect the filling loop to the mains water.

Does this seem feasible?????

 

[stratobuddy]

It could look something like this.

 

[tamz]

You could have used one of these

 

[stratobuddy]

Oh, looks like I will not make my fortune then :-(

How are they used, where do you connect them?

 

[Barry98]

You could have used one of these
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You mean the companies who make the chemicals already have something sorted, well dip me in marmite and cover me in hundreds and thousands

 

[mountainman]

You mean the companies who make the chemicals already have something sorted, well dip me in marmite and cover me in hundreds and thousands

Now THAT I'd like to see! 🙂🙂🙂

 

[markfxy]

I always use cheap toolstation inhibitor pour it into a fernox container and charge full whack that way everybody's happy:wink5:

 

[Barry98]

I buy the bulk stuff , get some good deals on flea bay

 

[mountainman]

Going back to the serious point of someone recommending adding fairy liquid to central heating systems

So who was being serious?
Name and shame, thats what I say!

 

[frankjames]

Yeah ebay is definatley a good place to buy

 

[Barry98]

Yeah ebay is definatley a good place to buy

That mean you've got some for sale lol