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Re: British Gas Repair & Powerflush
Reply #17 - May 9^th, 2007, 10:49pm

I've got two 11 port manifolds (one per floor) and long runs to the rooms. I don't recall there being a lot of pipe left in the skip so to play safe I assumed a whole 100m reel was used per port. That would mean we used 2200 Mtrs. Perhaps I'd best go look up how much pipe they quoted for originally.

I guessed the internal diameter at 12mm as I couldn't find a sample to measure. Perhaps 10mm is closer? If I assumed 10mm that would make it 172L plus the store, or 472L total. Needing 2.36L and I've saved a 500cc bottle for next time.

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Reply #19 - Feb 10^th, 2010, 11:20pm

CWatters wrote on Apr 30^th, 2007, 9:12pm:

No it doesn't. Seems to be a common complaint with BG.

Read these....

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=155334

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/general-consumer-issues/2904-british-...

On the web a typical power flush from another company costs around £250 including the chemicals, but I suspect you don't need it if there were no cold spots. If it was my system I'd drain and refill the system myself a few times then refill adding Fernox or similar corrosion inhibitor. If you really want to get BG to do it tell them others have quoted £250 and see what they say.

we only charge £250 for a powerflush and do it the same as BG .(we spend a full day flushing)
i worked there 20 years.

the most you should pay is about £300 i would say .

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Reply #20 - Feb 10^th, 2010, 11:24pm

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Had a problem with my Potterton boiler on Saturday morning - found it was leaking "coffee" coloured water. As we have a contract with British Gas I called them out. The engineer found a hole in the heat exchanger (?) that was causing the leak and will be replacing it. He has also quoted us £716 (inc. vat) as he says the system needs to be powerflushed and any further failures we may have won't be covered unless this is done. The house is only 6 years old, so the central heating system isn't ancient. We've had BG cover for 4 years now and they inspect it anually. The system is quiet and I'm unaware of cold spots on radiators. I saw no solid debry from the fluid the engineer drained off. Does this sound right Huh

if the water is like coffee then i would guess its proberly got sludge in it .
there is a couple of things that i would look at if i was you .

firstly you could get it flushed but whos to say it will not come back ?
the other thing you could do is fit a magnaclean filter these are very very good .
hope this helps ..

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