I moved into a new build around 18 months ago, and I consider myself a competent DIYer. Before I ask the builder to come and look at my plumbing I wanted to get some opinion on an odd issue we've been having.
Our showers don't get hot (we've got two of them). It was most noticeable (probably because we used it more often) on one that the other. To the point that we asked Bristan to come take a look. 3 visits later, after replacing the cartridge and then the whole mixer unit, it is still the same. And we've now noticed the other shower is now much the same.
To add intrigue to the problem, the showers do get hot if you run a faucet tap first. I have tried this in different combinations with showers on/off and taps on/off and watched what happens to the screen on the boiler.
This is the results (with no other water sources on in the house):
Shower on > tap off: No activity on boiler
shower on > tap on: hot water on
tap on > shower on: hot water on
tap on > shower off: hot water on
So it seems that the shower on its own isn't 'drawing' enough water to kick start the boiler. Is that a thing?
The boiler is a 35kW Ideal Combi.
HELP ME! I'm going mad.
Our showers don't get hot (we've got two of them). It was most noticeable (probably because we used it more often) on one that the other. To the point that we asked Bristan to come take a look. 3 visits later, after replacing the cartridge and then the whole mixer unit, it is still the same. And we've now noticed the other shower is now much the same.
To add intrigue to the problem, the showers do get hot if you run a faucet tap first. I have tried this in different combinations with showers on/off and taps on/off and watched what happens to the screen on the boiler.
This is the results (with no other water sources on in the house):
Shower on > tap off: No activity on boiler
shower on > tap on: hot water on
tap on > shower on: hot water on
tap on > shower off: hot water on
So it seems that the shower on its own isn't 'drawing' enough water to kick start the boiler. Is that a thing?
The boiler is a 35kW Ideal Combi.
HELP ME! I'm going mad.