Powder Flushing | Powder Flush Discussion - Steve Kukard Trademark Owner

[Rappid]

I'm a sparky looking for advice

I'm having problems with my heating system, I have googled power flushing and it came up powder flushing.
Is it really that good?
Anybody doing powder flushing?


Thanks.

 

[hydrotherm]

Hope were not talking illegal substances here !

 

[mrlennie]

interesting...

 

[Gray0689]

Sounds a good job

 

[PlumbBobBob]

bet it's not cheap though

 

[SafeGasInstall]

is that your invention ?

 

[Rappid]

No not my invention, just stumbled across it on google.
Just looking for someone who does this as my system desperately needs a power flush.

 

[PlumbBobBob]

strange that powder flushing doesn't come up for at least first ten pages (got bored of looking)

 

[SteveBall]

The powder is just a additive you add when power flushing,

claims to give extra cleaning,which it may do

however the problem is getting it all out afterwards as very difficult to get all out and the bits if left in could perhaps cause damage to controls in system, would not advise on domestic systems personally myself, you will find chemicals alone will do the job just fine.

Use Chemicals Always. They Work Well.
imho

 

[Rappid]

Steveb, I googled 'power flush hire' and it's the second link

 

[PlumbBobBob]

Steveb, I googled 'power flush hire' and it's the second link

i googled power flushing and it didn't come up. which is what i would have put in if i were looking for someone to do it for me. which reading back is what you said you did.

 

[Plumin]

From the website "100% of the abrasive is retrieved, leaving the system completely clean. After the abrasive has done its work, it dissolves into the system water and gets dump down the drain. The system water is then replaced with clean water and inhibitor added." Sound like it would work just fine.

 

[GerrythePlumber]

What's in this magic powder?
It sounds like its just washing powder.
If its not available, then it's not legal. How would you explain to your insurance company that some unknown substance was being used on domestic premises?
Theyr'e keeping a little secret methinks.
The only ones I can find who perform this service are Steve and his mates at the powerflush association.
If it's so good then why power flush at all.
They say the pump goes at 50 to 300 litres/ min. It must be huge.

 

[PowderFlush]

Powder Flush was specifically designed to overcome the shortcomings power flushing has in cleaning microbore systems and I can assure you that it does NOT cause leaks and in fact causes less leaks because we don’t have to use strong acidic cleaners. The powder and pellets we use are by design, just hard enough to scrape of hardened sludge but not so hard that it can cause leaks or damage. We have various sized pellets of different densities depending on pipe size and age of the system we are cleaning. We have performed hundreds of procedures on microbore, both copper and plastic and have a much higher success rate than trying to power flush them. It is true that standard power flushing is not all that effective on microbore and it is true that Powder Flushing will get better results. We know this because around 50% of our work is on systems where power flushing has already failed to get results, at least once.

 

[Old Account]

Personally I just do a chemical clean... power flushing microbore isn't worth the hassle.

I was with a customer a few months back and they said they saw something on the web about powder flushing for microbore (just found it here POWDERFLUSH ). Anyone heard about this?

Where can you get this powder ? Can you use the powder for a normal power flush machine ? Or do you need a new machine ?

 

[Old Account]

Powder Flush was specifically designed to overcome the shortcomings power flushing has in cleaning microbore systems and I can assure you that it does NOT cause leaks and in fact causes less leaks because we don’t have to use strong acidic cleaners. The powder and pellets we use are by design, just hard enough to scrape of hardened sludge but not so hard that it can cause leaks or damage. We have various sized pellets of different densities depending on pipe size and age of the system we are cleaning. We have performed hundreds of procedures on microbore, both copper and plastic and have a much higher success rate than trying to power flush them. It is true that standard power flushing is not all that effective on microbore and it is true that Powder Flushing will get better results. We know this because around 50% of our work is on systems where power flushing has already failed to get results, at least once.

Where can I get those powder for powder flush ? Is that possible to use it with a standrard power flush machine ? Or we will need to buy a different machine ? What's the cost like ?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

POWDER FLUSH: Better cleaning than a power flush!

 

[Stanios]

The Powder Flushing® looks interesting.
I preffer Filling Loop Flushing™ myself..

 

[tommy1712]

I have heard of powder flushing but never done it of seen the chemicals etc but surely that's gunna :nono: your machine??????

 

[Rickster123]

You've joined but never actually done a powerflush???

Edit... Ahhhh I see powder flush....