[heritagecleaning]

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

[john martin]

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 ?

[heritagecleaning]

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

[john martin]

  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

[Richard Cole]

Sledgehammer should do the trick