In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Napier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>During our current sojourn at the Braidbar yard at Higher Poynton, one
>of the jobs was investigating the sluggish performance of the macerator
>toilet.
>
>Dismantling revealed a truly startling amount of limescale throughout,
>which mainly had to be chipped out with a screwdriver. The macerator
>blade, the plastic mesh cage and the output impeller were all virtually
>cocooned in the stuff, after 2.5 years of use.
>
>Reassembly resulted in erratic behaviour, especially running on
>endlessly, and the controller/timer circuit board has now been replaced
>- it looks as if the thumping, bumping and pressure washing had
>distressed the electronics beyond recall.
>
>Questions:
>
>1) Why should a permanently wet and not very hot piece of kit collect
>so much scale?
>
>2) How can we stop it recurring, short of stripping the thing down
>every year?
>
>Any thoughts gratefully received.
>
Living in a serious hard water area we suffer all the time from
limescale.
What I have done is it fit a "magnetic scale inhibitor" as a test cos I
didn't believe it would work but it does. We have to resort to viacal on
the sink about half as often with the inhibitor fitted as we did before.
Having said that I have to ask is it lime scale?
because there can be a severe calcification caused by the deposits from
urine, on my PO toilet before I removed it the pipe to the tank from the
toilet had shrunk to 50% of its diameter because of these deposits.
A double flush could be the answer to wash it away.
J
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Julian Tether
Barge Parglena
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