It’s a common belief that strainers aid water quality, but in reality, without the right maintenance, they may end up causing more problems than preventing them.
This is where Marflow Hydronics’ Filterball can really help.
The main purpose of a strainer is to catch larger debris. It’s a misconception that by adding a strainer good water quality will be maintained. For a strainer to properly serve its purpose, then regular checks need to be made on them to avoid affecting the quality of the system and the products fitted within it.
When the strainer is checked, water will always be lost from the system and, as a result, air will be introduced. If the air is not quickly removed then it can and most probably will cause corrosion in the pipework system, so it’s best to minimise the introduction of air in the first place. This would also make maintenance far easier. This is where products like the Marflow Hydronics’ Filterball have been designed to help.
The Filterball is a compact combined isolation valve and strainer unit. The in-built strainer screen removes the need for separate isolating valves up and downstream of traditional Y strainers, reducing capital and installation costs over traditional strainers and isolating valves used in these systems.
Users of the Filterball have found it to be a far simpler approach to cleaning a system. Accessing it and working with it is very easy and so many of the issues connected with more traditional solutions are completely eradicated with the use of just this valve.
If a strainer must be used in a system, then products like the Filterball will not only help to reduce the well-known problems in a system, but it will make life much easier in the process.
