Water Treatment: It’s Vital, Not An Option

Clean heating systems work more efficiently than dirty ones, use less energy to produce the required heat, cost less money to run, and are responsible for a smaller carbon footprint.

Good quality chemical water treatment products enable this to happen
and this is why water treatment has taken on a new level of
importance in the heating industry in the last few years.
Independent research undertaken by GasTec, commissioned by
Sentinel, proved once and for all that sludge build up in radiators on
a normal domestic heating system can reduce their overall effectiveness by as much as 15%. In addition, it
said that proper cleansing of a system using a chemical additive to ‘break-up’ sludge deposits combined
with a power-flush of the system will result in greater uniformity of radiator temperature and result in a
reduced risk of system hydraulic imbalance. This is turn should lead to an improvement in overall boiler
energy efficiency of up to 2%.
In a nutshell, good quality water treatment products can clean, protect and reduce noise associated with
domestic heating systems, improving system reliability, increasing energy efficiency and extending heating
system life.
The best chemical water treatment products offer one key benefit for installers, specifiers and householders
– peace of mind. They offer a range of other key benefits including being highly effective at providing
protection for both stainless steel and aluminium heat exchangers in boilers, in providing a protective coating
on the inside metallic surfaces of the system to provide long term or even lifetime protection, and in keeping
the pumps and valves clean and operating to their optimum level, to ensure the heating system is operating
at maximum efficiency at all times.
In addition, heating systems will require far less maintenance – keeping costs down from the day the system
is first turned on. Take a trip to www.sentinel-solutions.net for a water treatment update!