Help with the shower
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No, not help IN the shower - unless you're female and incredibly hot - Help WITH the shower.
So it used to be blastingly hot water, which you had to turn down from maximum for fear of scalding yourself clean. Lovely. Just how I like it.
Recently, it's become skin temperature - which, when it's falling on your cold skin at 7am, feels bloody awful. Puts me in a right bad mood.
I have a combi boiler which comes on when the shower comes on. Water from all taps is hot.
There's a weird switch in the kitchen with a little light next to it, which seems to be something to do with the shower, because switching that from on to off means I get a freezing shower - that's on.
Do the PH massive have any ideas, before I call a plumber to suck his teeth and tell me my condensing foondangler needs descaling, at a cost of £2000?
Ta.
So it used to be blastingly hot water, which you had to turn down from maximum for fear of scalding yourself clean. Lovely. Just how I like it.
Recently, it's become skin temperature - which, when it's falling on your cold skin at 7am, feels bloody awful. Puts me in a right bad mood.
I have a combi boiler which comes on when the shower comes on. Water from all taps is hot.
There's a weird switch in the kitchen with a little light next to it, which seems to be something to do with the shower, because switching that from on to off means I get a freezing shower - that's on.
Do the PH massive have any ideas, before I call a plumber to suck his teeth and tell me my condensing foondangler needs descaling, at a cost of £2000?
Ta.
If you have a valve shower, (not electric), it is almost certainly a fault with the shower or the hot water supply. If it is a thermostatic shower it is possibly a fault with the thermostat.
It will not be a pump as you can't use a pump with a combi boiler, your hot water system is already pressurised. Haven't a clue what the switch in the kitchen is for.
Sounds like you need a plumber. HTH
It will not be a pump as you can't use a pump with a combi boiler, your hot water system is already pressurised. Haven't a clue what the switch in the kitchen is for.
Sounds like you need a plumber. HTH
FlossyThePig said:
Two thoughts:
Yes, it has this:- Does the shower have a thermastatic mixer (one control for flow and onother for temperature)?
- I think the switch is for a pump, maybe not pumping as hard as it used to.
Sorry for making you rotate your head - couldn't be arsed to rotate the pic!
If the switch was a pump, would it not affect the flow rate? If the switch is off, the flow rate is the same - it's just cold. Makes me think its some kind of secondary heater? Or... er.. ???
Have you tried turning the temp control valve to full hot and then back to cold a few times ,sometimes the valve gets hung up on scale etc ,(works on mine a treat) My mrs currently very unhappy as our boiler has taken a pooh and i am away working in nice sunny Lagos till friday so cant do sod all to help........still at least my hotel has nice showers 
Edited by fflyingdog on Wednesday 10th December 21:05
When you operate the switch does it turn the mains boiler power off?
A Lot of companies when they take out old systems and put in combi boilers just use the same switch that was in before for the main isolator switch, saves them running a new one but also means people know where it is as it hasn't moved...........Maybe even has the old text "water heater" on it?
A Lot of companies when they take out old systems and put in combi boilers just use the same switch that was in before for the main isolator switch, saves them running a new one but also means people know where it is as it hasn't moved...........Maybe even has the old text "water heater" on it?
360 detailing said:
When you operate the switch does it turn the mains boiler power off?
A Lot of companies when they take out old systems and put in combi boilers just use the same switch that was in before for the main isolator switch, saves them running a new one but also means people know where it is as it hasn't moved...........Maybe even has the old text "water heater" on it?
Sounds right. A Lot of companies when they take out old systems and put in combi boilers just use the same switch that was in before for the main isolator switch, saves them running a new one but also means people know where it is as it hasn't moved...........Maybe even has the old text "water heater" on it?
think the problems a scaled up valve / thermostat.
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