Power flushing in Lighthorne

Yes. M&S Bespoke engineers are Gas Safe registered and fully insured, and all work is carried out to current regulations.

Call or message us with the details. For anything that needs assessing we will arrange a visit first so the figure we give you is accurate rather than a guess.

Yes. We work with private landlords and letting agents across Lighthorne, and we can arrange access with tenants directly.

The usual signs are radiators cold at the bottom but warm at the top, black water when you bleed a radiator, a boiler that kettles or bangs, radiators that take forever to warm through, and a system that needs bleeding again and again. We test the system water and check flow and return temperatures before recommending a flush, rather than selling one on sight.

A chemical flush circulates a cleaner using your own boiler pump and then drains and refills the system. A power flush uses a dedicated pump and magnet unit connected across the system, reversing flow radiator by radiator to shift debris that a chemical clean will not move. Lightly dirty systems only need a chemical clean, heavily sludged ones need the power flush.

Most houses take most of a day, depending on the number of radiators and how bad the sludge is. Larger properties or systems with old iron pipework can run into a second visit, and we tell you that before we start rather than half way through.

Yes, and we fit one on nearly every flush. A MagnaClean or similar magnetic filter on the return catches the iron oxide that keeps forming, so the system stays clean instead of silting up again. It also protects a new boiler and is normally a manufacturer warranty condition.

It fixes cold radiators caused by sludge and debris. It will not fix a seized valve, a failed pump, an airlock or a badly balanced system, which is why we diagnose first. Plenty of cold radiator calls end up being balancing or a stuck TRV pin, and we are not going to flush a system that does not need it.

On very old systems with corroded steel radiators or aged iron pipework, flushing can find weak points that were already close to failing. We assess the age and condition first and will recommend a gentler chemical clean, or replacement of the worst radiators, where a full flush is not the sensible option.

Always. The system is refilled with fresh corrosion inhibitor to the correct dose for the volume, and we test the level. Skipping the inhibitor is how a freshly flushed system ends up sludged again within a couple of years.

Yes. Fitting a new boiler onto a dirty system pushes the old debris straight into the new heat exchanger and can invalidate the warranty. Every boiler we install includes a cleanse, fresh inhibitor and a magnetic filter as standard.