plumbfix magnetic filters

[lame plumber]

what you have just discovered screwdrivers?and ferrolis?? gosh you must be at the height of technological advancement down there in devon

too true, we even have intergas boilers now, havent seen a rover for ages, except in the Haines motoring museum 🙂🙂🙂

 

[royston]

Speaking of ferroli's , ive ripped one of them tats out today !

 

[Roger Welton]

I quite like the old modenas, the main hex is a fair old lump of copper down the scrappie 🙂

 

[lame plumber]

I like the fact all these new boiler have long warrantees, as long as we service them annually🙂🙂🙂🙂

 

[Dizzy]

Question where do you get all your info from? because reading the above I can assure you the Plumbfix is made in the UK!

 

[bspareltd]

Yes that is what it states but a salus rep that i know tells me all the salus products including the filter is made in there chinese factory ,it also states dosing point for chemicals but it does not have one .
Hold a Centramag in your hand and hold a plumbfix no nonsense filter(salus) and you can tell the quality of the plumbfix filter(salus) is made in china .

Question where do you get all your info from? because reading the above I can assure you the Plumbfix is made in the UK!

 

[FD Powerflow]

Plumbfix is made by Lettergold according to the Adey rep I saw today boys.... Not Salus

From the looks of "Dizzy's" two posts Id say they are from either Lettergold or Plumbfix!

 

[bspareltd]

look at the salus filter and the plumbfix filter exactly the same

 

[bewsh]

the only people who like ferroli's are the people who charge the customer a fortune to install then 😉

Although I do quite like the Modena, simple boiler, easy to work on/find faults, probably the best they've made, but then not familiar with the HE version. All the other condensing boilers they made have been absolutely terrible!

 

[lame plumber]

the only people who like ferroli's are the people who charge the customer a fortune to install then 😉

oh the innocence of youth, I love ferrollis they keep me busy servicing, repairing and replacing at HUGE cost

 

[FD Powerflow]

look at the salus filter and the plumbfix filter exactly the same

I'd say that Salus are also buying their filter from Lettergold then mate, do a bit of googling and you can find Lettergold buying an injection moulding machine news pr, might be some joy in approaching salus to sell yours?

 

[bspareltd]

i must say i went to plumbfix to look at this filter and it is a absolutely poor quality product ,flimsy spanner ,no street elbow provided .Rang one our merchant customers and had a conversation about the salus filter and he refused to put such a poor product on his shelf!!!!!

 

[Ray Stafford]

I have a sample Salus filter on my desk.

Without disrespect to Bspareltd, I don't think its as bad as that. It looks ok to me. My view was that it wasn't cheap enough to compete at the budget end, and it didn't offer any benefits to compete with the established brands like TF1 or Magnaclean at the top end.

The price range of filters is relatively narrow, so I am not convinced that there is room for a "mid market" product - I think most customers will either buy on brand name, habit or price. Rightly or wrongly, Salus is firmly associated with the budget end, and this product simply isn't cheap enough to hack it there.

 

[bspareltd]

yes you are right the salus does fit in the budget end ,but what puzzles me they are stating it catches non-magnetic debris and it has a dosing port both untrue.

 

[villa_tom]

i must say i went to plumbfix to look at this filter and it is a absolutely poor quality product ,flimsy spanner ,no street elbow provided .Rang one our merchant customers and had a conversation about the salus filter and he refused to put such a poor product on his shelf!!!!!

Is a decent street elbow and a decent spanner really a selling point on a magnetic filter though?

I personally have never used the street elbows provided with the magnaclean as they are cheap thin copper and when I service am filter I never use the provided spanners. Most customers don't know where they are anyway 🙂

surely the main thing that counts is how much mick it collects and how often it leaks, based on this, my filter of choice would be the spirotech magnabooster. I've seen to many tf1 filters and magnacleans leak to favour those.

I haven't seen any other filters in action so can't really comment on those.

 

[villa_tom]

yes you are right the salus does fit in the budget end ,but what puzzles me they are stating it catches non-magnetic debris and it has a dosing port both untrue.

Id say any filter where by you can take the head off counts as a dosing point to be honest. I inhibit most systems this way, as it save getting in the lift or draining a rad 🙂

 

[bspareltd]

Fernox dont provide a spanner ,which i think is cutting back to save money ,going back to the salus filter ;functionality is limited with a small brillo pad at the bottom of the filter to catch not magnetic debris .What a gimmick

 

[villa_tom]

Fernox dont provide a spanner ,which i think is cutting back to save money ,going back to the salus filter ;functionality is limited with a small brillo pad at the bottom of the filter to catch not magnetic debris .What a gimmick

Fernox filters are rubbish though. 🙂

 

[bspareltd]

by taking the lid off ,for dosing and having a o ring in the lid ,you will have the same scenario as the magnaclean ;leaking lids

Id say any filter where by you can take the head off counts as a dosing point to be honest. I inhibit most systems this way, as it save getting in the lift or draining a rad 🙂

 

[villa_tom]

by taking the lid off ,for dosing and having a o ring in the lid ,you will have the same scenario as the magnaclean ;leaking lids

Does that make it not a dosing point though?