Steam boiler water treatment, maintenance and testing — protecting plant and uptime.
Chemical treatment, condensate protection, on-site water testing and HSE-aligned record-keeping for steam plant across industry, healthcare and process. Treatment regimes designed around your boiler — not lifted from a generic spec.
Steam Boiler Water Treatment, Maintenance & Testing
Steam plant is unforgiving. Get the water chemistry wrong and you scale, corrode or carryover — and any of those costs you uptime, fuel, and in the worst case a boiler. Get it right and the plant runs for decades on the same chemistry, with predictable maintenance windows and clean condensate returns.
We treat steam boilers from small commercial gas-fired units to industrial water-tube plant — designing the regime around your feedwater, condensate ratio, fuel and operating cycle, not lifting a generic dosing spec off the shelf.
Treatment is one half of it. The other half is testing, recording and adjusting — which is why our service includes weekly+ on-site testing, monthly lab chemistry and a digital logbook that maps onto HSE PM5 boiler safety records.
Birmingham-based engineers keep steam boiler water treatment across Birmingham and the West Midlands on schedule, with UK-wide cover for estates beyond the region.
When you need it
- Your boiler is showing scale, corrosion, foaming or carryover and you need a chemistry reset
- TDS, hardness or chloride results are trending outside BS2486 limits
- Your current dosing supplier is on autopilot and the chemistry doesn't match the plant
- Condensate return is corroded or oxygen pitting is appearing in the system
- An insurance inspector or HSE assessor has flagged gaps in your boiler water records
- You're commissioning new steam plant and need a treatment regime designed from scratch
What's included as standard.
A typical engagement covers every line below. Where your scope needs more — multi-site rollout, white-label delivery, framework KPIs — we build it on top of this baseline.
Treatment Design
Site-specific dosing regime — oxygen scavenger, neutralising amine, alkalinity booster, anti-scale — sized to feedwater and load.
Chemical Supply
BS2486-compliant treatment chemistry, supplied in returnable IBCs or drums on a planned replenishment cadence.
On-Site Testing
Weekly or daily testing of conductivity, TDS, alkalinity, hardness, chloride, sulphite and pH — boiler-side and feedwater-side.
Lab Chemistry
Monthly UKAS-accredited lab chemistry — full panel including silica, iron, copper and condensate analysis.
Condensate Protection
Neutralising and filming amine dosing to protect condensate return pipework from oxygen and CO₂ corrosion.
Records & Reporting
Digital logbook that aligns with HSE PM5 — boiler water records, dosing logs, exception reports and a monthly chemistry summary.
The compliance map for steam boilers.
Built around the sector's compliance picture.
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From brief to audit-ready evidence in five steps.
Brief & Survey
Free site walk-through with a senior engineer — scope, plant, risk, gaps.
Quote & Scheme
Itemised quote plus written scheme of control, dosing logic and reporting cadence.
Mobilise
Risk assessments, method statements, HSE paperwork and induction — turnkey.
Deliver
Engineers on-site with digital reporting, photos, lab links and live PPM tracking.
Evidence
Certificates, logbooks and HSE-ready audit packs — issued within 48 hours.