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Hello and welcome. As you’re here reading this then chances are that you have a boiler that is caked with limescale and urgently needs to be descaled or that your pipes are blocked with limescale, and someone (or a search engine) has directed you to this website. Well, you’ve come to the right place.

You may be experiencing poor hot water flow, or your boiler ‘cycles’ between warm and cool. Either of these two symptoms are nearly always a sign that your boiler needs descaling. The flow is reduced because limescale is simply blocking the tubes, or cycling is occurring because the heat cannot be exchanged. In hard water areas boilers need descaling on a fairly regular basis.

Most of my work is descaling combination (combi) boilers. As they use mains water then they are prone to limescale formation. This doesn’t have to be the case at all, as you could have a LimeStop fitted, which would completely stop your boiler from ever having limescale build-up again. Unfortunately, most boiler owners have no such device, and even those that have been ‘protected’ have magnets or electrical devices that simply don’t work. Silicate-polyphosphate is the ONLY thing that works against limescale short of a water softener. More on that on the LimeStop link.

Need someone to descale a Zip Hydroboil or Instanta water boiler? Then look no further - just £139.

20% discount if you have many all in one building (discount applies to RG postcode only). Don’t allow your ‘handyman’ to do it! We exercise very high level of hygiene while carrying out this process - as this is water you’ll drink! We use an approved acid (not hydrochloric!) and all residue is removed.

Limescale

Almost any water heating appliance can be descaled - they can be brought back to as they were when new, there are very few exceptions. So if a heating engineer tells you that your boiler is finished because the domestic heat exchanger is blocked with limescale, then take it with a pinch of salt and call me! I’ve heard this so many times. You may be offered a new heat exchanger in exchange for your limescale-blocked one. Again, this is almost certainly not necessary, though it would be prudent to check the cost. My charge for descaling a typical combi boiler is just £169 - that’s all-in, and includes running the dissolving acids through your hot pipe network (to your taps) after I have finished clearing your boiler. That’s almost always cheaper than having a new heat exchanger. They can cost around £200 with labour on top! And you won’t get your pipes cleaned if you just opt for a new heat exchanger either. In some instances (fairly rarely) your pipes are all that needs to be descaled. This is usually when you’ve already had a new heat exchanger fitted and the engineer discovers that it hasn’t cured the problem of low water flow! This is (usually) a cheaper process - costing £139. If the limescale is excessive, and years upon years of limescale has formed in the pipework, then it may well be more expensive than this. It’s simply not known until I begin to tackle it. It usually works out cheaper than replacing all the pipes though!

Obviously I work in a certain geographical area - the RG postcode area. The £169 quoted above applies throughout that area. I am prepared to travel to other locations - even miles away, but obviously I have to charge a travel fee. If you want to know what it is then simply type your postcode into Google Maps, then click on ‘Directions’. In box A type in ‘RG30 4HF’. Your address should already be in box B. Click on ‘Get Directions’ and you’ll get the travel time, and distance in miles - usually three options. It’s best to choose the longest option of the three. I charge £2 per mile in addition to the £169, so if it says 57 miles, then the travel charge would be £114 (for example).

I also descale very many mains-pressure hot water cylinders, like Gledhill and mains-pressure hot water cylinders such as Powermax heaters etc. Unfortunately these are more expensive to descale because they really do get caked in limescale. The cost is usually £237.

My service is second to none, and have been used by British Gas, Reading Borough Council, Reading University, very many housing-management and letting companies, and of course, very many plumbing and heating engineers use me too. I have a ‘There when I say, or you don’t pay’ policy. This ensures that I will turn up when I say I will! I’m fully insured, and take great care in your property. Dust and absorbant sheets are always placed down - although there is actually no mess at all. Please note that if you are the landlord of a property and you require my service, you must either be present during the work or advance payment has to be made. It’s important that you don’t confuse power-flushing with descaling. Email me if you are at all unsure, or read the ‘Power-Flushing’ link on the left hand side.