Shower blocking up

c1098630 · 7 Sep 2009

Hi,
My electric shower keeps blocking up. The shower head fills with small flakes of what looks like limescale, and is unusable after one to two showers.

Originally I had a Triton Opal with this problem. I replaced it around a year ago with an Opal II. It worked well for nearly a year. My reasoning was that maybe the shower was kettling, creating limescale. Either that or some kind of filtration failure.

However now the Opal II is doing the same thing, so I clearly didn't fix it by replacing the shower unit.

Either the passage of time or the change in the seasons has caused the same problem to come back.

All other taps in the house run clear.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Many thanks,
Andrew

kevplumb · 7 Sep 2009

take the shower head off and run it at cold with the hose in the bath

seco services · 7 Sep 2009

see them scale all the time but don't cause a big problem.

did you fit the inlet filter ?

c1098630 · 8 Sep 2009

take the shower head off and run it at cold with the hose in the bath

...already tried that. This maybe clears the head for a short while, but it'll be blocked if I take 1-2 showers. This was the solution offered by Triton when I rang them, by the way.

did you fit the inlet filter

There is a filter which comes as part of the shower unit. I haven't fitted anything else. (Should I have?)

The thing that really gets me is how fast and frequently it blocks. I'd expect the shower to scale up in months, not the 10 minutes it seems to take.

kevplumb · 8 Sep 2009

one of these might be worth a shot

Nige F · 8 Sep 2009

It might be worth looking on a "certain e-auction site"

because @ that price I`ll be listing a couple myself . I have 2 used, but perfectly good ones in my garage

c1098630 · 8 Sep 2009

Given the device you're recommending, you think the scale is originating in the shower? So somehow it's getting so hot in there that it's creating this massive amount of scale during the course of a shower?

Thanks

kevplumb · 8 Sep 2009

it dont take a lot to clog a shower head

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