Hi,
I've got a small (30 litre I think) plastic header tank in the loft, and its full of brown sludge. It just has a cold water feed into it, an overflow pipe, and one pipe at the bottom, which joins onto the main central heating pipe. There is a heat only boiler, and a megaflo hot water tank, which is mains water fed, not tank fed.
I'd like to drain the tank, and clean all the brown sludge out, and I've got an idea about how to do this, but can you please check to see if it's correct, and if not what I should do instead:
1)Turn water off, and drain tank either by pumping the water out, or draining down the heating system just enough to empty the tank
2) Clean all the sludge
3) First put inhibitor in the tank, then fill the rest with water
Thanks for any replies
I've got a small (30 litre I think) plastic header tank in the loft, and its full of brown sludge. It just has a cold water feed into it, an overflow pipe, and one pipe at the bottom, which joins onto the main central heating pipe. There is a heat only boiler, and a megaflo hot water tank, which is mains water fed, not tank fed.
I'd like to drain the tank, and clean all the brown sludge out, and I've got an idea about how to do this, but can you please check to see if it's correct, and if not what I should do instead:
1)Turn water off, and drain tank either by pumping the water out, or draining down the heating system just enough to empty the tank
2) Clean all the sludge
3) First put inhibitor in the tank, then fill the rest with water
Thanks for any replies