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Location: United Kingdom
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I have a customer who is an American ( I am doing the plumbing in his flat in London and he is in USA ) and I have tried to explain to him that the boiler needs repairing, the plate heat exchanger to be more precise.
Now he asked me by email to explain what is a plate heat exchanger because he asked a local american plumber and he doesn't know what part of the boiler is called plate heat exchanger.
Different name for plate heat exchanger in USA?
Thanks guys
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it is a similar boiler to the one in the picture Vaillant boiler 
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Why not send him the Wikipedia link .
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
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Try and talk to the plumber yourself here in the US we don't use boilers as much as you folks in the UK because we are getting rid of them ,as they are full of Asbestos, and older plumbers who know what you are talking about are retiring and taking the knowledge of may years with them.
To your client a Plate heat exchanger is like a room radiator,it's the closest thing that a non-plumber and a modern plumber would understand, into which the super hot water goes and become cooler as the plates heat up and draw off the heat the water gets cooler and returns to the boiler to be reused the problem is the scale and rust build up and then the plate exchanger has to be replaced like it or not.
Am I close to what a Plate Heat Exchanger does?
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In the UK asbestos was banned from use in boilers as long ago as 1984
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
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I second IMcRout's Wikipedia link, and add Duda Diesel: heat exchangers, which has a pretty nice lesson. Boilers are still quite common in some areas of the U.S., more so in commercial installations; less so in residential. Nevertheless, any licensed plumber, residential or commercial, should be able to understand the concept, even if it is a different type of heat exchanger than they are used to. I wonder whether your client is speaking with a licensed plumber or with a friend who has some experience plumbing sinks and baths in his own house.
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My plumbing knowledge is limited to:
knowing where the "Thingy" is that one uses to plunge the toilet,
and
I know my plumber's phone number!
Kidding, I can change a toilet, sink or faucet. But, not too sure about boilers and what might be lost in translation between different terminologies.
"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong". (Knight's Oath, Kingdom of Heaven)
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