Descaling a boiler

[The Agrarian]

Hard borehole water here. Every couple of years it goes for the heater element, and we dig out half a barrow of limescale out of the bottom.

Does anyone pour in milkstone remover/descaler to the boiler?

 

[Grassman247]

Hard borehole water here. Every couple of years it goes for the heater element, and we dig out half a barrow of limescale out of the bottom.

Does anyone pour in milkstone remover/descaler to the boiler?

Tried descaler, didn’t work very well, just ended up washing a 1200litre one out with the volume hose. Also switched to mains water for the water heaters

 

[GEMS]

Do you not use a softenor (salt based ) on water heaters ??

 

[Agriimark]

@Adeptandy

 

[Horn&corn]

Did use descaling acid but dangerous to add to hot water tank. Installed a pre softener and it’s helped the job considerably. Also requires less chemical in hot wash cycle

 

[crashbox]

Hard borehole water here. Every couple of years it goes for the heater element, and we dig out half a barrow of limescale out of the bottom.

Does anyone pour in milkstone remover/descaler to the boiler?

We used to be the same. Mains water, super hard, wheel barrow every six months plus heat elements.

Do yourself a financial favour, fit a salt based water softener. Was about £500, 3 years ago, fitted when we installed heat recovery.

 

[The Agrarian]

Is it too costly/inefficient to fit one to the borehole source? Do you have to fit one to every heating device? Two dwelling houses on it here too that could do with it.

 

[sjt01]

We find these extremely effective and cheap to run

 

[Horn&corn]

Is it too costly/inefficient to fit one to the borehole source? Do you have to fit one to every heating device? Two dwelling houses on it here too that could do with it.

A softener makes the water taste salty so not suitable for drinking.

 

[upnortheast]

We have a softener fitted after the borehole filters. No prob at all with limescale & if the water tastes salty needs some adjustment.

 

[Boo-Boo]

We find these extremely effective and cheap to run

I've that fitted on the feed to the electric heater , only in a few months yet

 

[DanielBennett]

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[sjt01]

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