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Does my boiler need chemicals?


Does my boiler need chemicals?
Does your boiler need chemicals? Here are some tips from contractors about cleaning new heating systems, using boiler chemicals, and water treatment.
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If the treatment caused failures or problems, either it was not installed in a cleaned system and flushed systems, soaps left over from cleaning, for example. The cleaners are aggressive, that's how the work so well, they need to be completely flushed.
Or it was not filled with good quality water, DI water. Or the inhibitor package was consumed and not checked and boosted.
Really O2 scavengers, film providers and ph buffers are the main ingredients, in the treatment chemicals, not really aggressive chemicals in any of those. But bad water quality can kill the conditioner pretty much from day one, same with site blended glycols.
It is a 3 step process to clean and fill correctly and it may involve several trips and related $$, which is why it gets ignored often, I think.
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