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Well today was the first day using hot water for a week after boiler blowing up , I hate cold water !,, today the seagulls poo came off so much quicker and easier and I was back to my old speed , I did a load of house from 8:15 to 12:30 ,then decided to do a small industrial building clean the tank had roughly 600 ltr of water in it and one hose reel had been returning to the tank with hot water all morning , the water did seam quite hot but I thought nothing of it , about half way through the building clean I started getting tones of steam coming off the cladding and the pole was a job to hold as it was so hot looked like I was using a doff not wfp ??? ,I checked the temperature of the water at the jets with about 40 meters of hose out and it was reading 82:6 degrees, I thought this must be wrong so got out another TDS meter and that said 82:2 so I then took the temperature of the water in the tank and that was 68:7 degrees , it was so hot had to turn the boiler off , then the hose going to the jets on the brush on one jet broke , it had gone Brittle with the heat so had to replace it , it’s an old brush but the hose wasn’t that old as I had replaced it after a softwashing job . I don’t know why it was so hot unless the old boiler wasn’t getting as hot due to it being knackered , so I phoned the guy who did the boiler repair and told him he laughed and said I have been working on theses things for 30 years and know how to get the best out of them , he wouldn’t say what he had done but said it will get a lot hotter than before just turn it down on the heat exchangers , I was concerned that it would shorten the life of the new burner and housing and he assured me it won’t , he did say that mine was the worst damaged boiler he had ever seen , but said that it’s nice to see something that’s used as it’s intended to be used , he said the was no coking up at all just heat damage to the burner housing , the computer diagnostics thing showed over 12600 hours run time , he said he was surprised it had lasted as long as it had and that it was still running with the amount of damage done to the internal Chainbure the inlet hole should be the size of your little finger and it was well over an inch wide , I have no idear why but the new casing feels a lot cooler than the old one but the water is a lot hotter . Hears hoping fir another 6:5 years trouble free hot water .