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Central Heating Cleaning and System Maintenance

Professional Power Flushing Across Kent

Drips provides professional power flushing for central heating systems across West Malling, Kings Hill, Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and surrounding areas. We remove accumulated sludge and debris to help improve circulation, radiator performance and heating efficiency.

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Benefits of Professional Power Flushing

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    Helps restore circulation and reduce radiator cold spots
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    Removes accumulated sludge, rust and debris from the system
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    Can help reduce system noise and improve heating performance

A power flush circulates water and specialist cleaning chemicals through your central heating system at a controlled velocity. This helps loosen and remove accumulated sludge and deposits from radiators, pipework and other system components. Once cleaning is complete, the system is thoroughly rinsed and a suitable corrosion inhibitor is added.

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Do You Need a Power Flush?

Cold radiator spots, slow heating, discoloured water when bleeding radiators and unusual system noise can indicate sludge or poor circulation. However, these symptoms can have other causes, so our engineers will assess your heating system and recommend power flushing only where appropriate.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is sludge
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Sludge is a build up of debris, and corrosion of the radiators, over time the radiator rust starts to circulate around your heating system causing blockages. A lot of this sludge will sink to the bottom of your radiators, this is hoe you will be able to tell just by feeling them.


At Drips Plumbing & Heating, we will take full responsibility of getting your heating system back to the way it should be and start helping you fight back against the cost of energy bills
How to tell if your radiator could need a power flush
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Over time your radiators will lose efficiency due to the sludge build up, this reduces the amount of hot water circulating and cost you more to heat the room up. The easiest way to tell as a homeowner is if you feel the bottom of the radiator is cooler than the top, this is a sign that you have sludge build up.


There are many ways to flush a system, all dependent on the property age/type. We would decide as engineers which is the best option to take, we run the system with chemicals working at with one radiator at a time, we use a vibrating tool to work on the radiators to loosen up the sludge build up. We then dump the sludge water into the nearest drain using a dump hose and re fill fresh water back into the radiator. We repeat this process with all the radiators in your home.
How much does it cost to change a radiator
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Generally a straight radiator swap, same size going back into the same position can range from £120-£150 dependent on size, we can offer better rates if you are having multiple radiators changed

If you was deciding to change the size or position of the radiator, we would need to see for an accurate quotation
Some of my rooms are colder than others?
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This can be a result of two things, either the radiator is not sized correctly to the room, or you have sludge build up within the radiator meaning it is less efficient than it should be. Our experts can answer those questions by doing a BTU calculation on the room and using our thermal imaging camera to indicate the efficiency of the radiator
Water is leaking from my radiator!?
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If water is leaking from your radiator, turn of both valves either side of the radiator, you may need spanner’s or grips to turn the valves, turn clockwise to shut the valve. Once this is done it will stop the flow of water and only have left what is left in the radiator. Put tubs or towels down on the floor below the leaking area and call one of our engineers now

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More than 90 verified reviews from customers who trust Drips with their plumbing and heating.

Drips fitted a new boiler and replaced a rust heating pump. We found them very experienced and efficient. They identified the issue and wasted no time in fixing it, even came back the next day to make sure it was working reliably. Very pleased.

Karl Liu

Drips fitted a new combo boiler for me. Excellent job done very thorough and professional. Items were taken away and place was left in a tidy manner. 10/10 service.

Eddie Reid

We would recommend Drips Plumbing and a job very well done. Handled professionally and charged given price.

Amer Mohammed

Was clear with pricing and what work was needed to be carried out, turned up on time, promptly fixed the issues and as far as I'm concerned they did a great job and would 100% use again.

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