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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: heritagecleaning on April 18, 2015, 09:30:22 am

Title: How do in-line heaters "die"?
Post by: heritagecleaning on April 18, 2015, 09:30:22 am

Following on from a similar post about vacs, the heaters in my machine take an age to get properly hot, i.e. 'burn your hand on the connect hot'.
In a 2 bed I'll be at the bottom of the stairs before I get to this stage, even if filling from  the customer's hot tap. I'm guessing they're on the way out - maybe scaled up inside? We live in a very hard water area.

I recenly bought a back up machine which has has an immersion heater fitted and it beats the poo out of the inline ones. I'm thinking that if I have to have the inline heaters replaced I might see if I can have an immersion one fitted instead.

Any views welcome :)

Title: Re: How do in-line heaters "die"?
Post by: john martin on April 18, 2015, 10:09:40 am

Quote from: heritagecleaning on April 18, 2015, 09:30:22 am

Following on from a similar post about vacs, the heaters in my machine take an age to get properly hot, i.e. 'burn your hand on the connect hot'.
In a 2 bed I'll be at the bottom of the stairs before I get to this stage, even if filling from  the customer's hot tap. I'm guessing they're on the way out - maybe scaled up inside? We live in a very hard water area.

I recenly bought a back up machine which has has an immersion heater fitted and it beats the poo out of the inline ones. I'm thinking that if I have to have the inline heaters replaced I might see if I can have an immersion one fitted instead.

Any views welcome :)

what inline heaters do you have ?

Title: Re: How do in-line heaters "die"?
Post by: heritagecleaning on April 18, 2015, 10:30:32 am

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1429349364_mytee heaters.jpg)

2 x 1000w, behind the hoses. Mytee 1003 DX

Title: Re: How do in-line heaters "die"?
Post by: john martin on April 18, 2015, 10:45:05 am

  I would say def descale anyway and make sure both are working not just one  ...

 Then i would buy this 3kw external   ,   its good on its own but i would use the mytee heater to preheat the water feed to it for carpet wand cleaning  ...   for upholstery / stairs u wont need to do that

http://www.amtechuk.co.uk/shop/3_KW_Inline_Heat_Exchanger-pid-181.html

Title: Re: How do in-line heaters "die"?
Post by: feldon on April 18, 2015, 01:44:29 pm

Sledgehammer should do the trick ;D