Yes it would!!
I have changed the NRV for a straight coupler and hey presto full flow!
Thanks again for all your wisdom and advise it has saved me a fortune. (And I have learnt a lot about my plumbing)
Here is the valve in question for anyone interested.
Ok thanks james I'll try that. Will have to go buy a bigger spanner then!
I'm pretty convinced (for what my opinion is worth) that it is not the shower control as I could not get good flow through the hot pipe even when I connected the hot outlet to the cold outlet from the pump.
Would the...
First of all thank you for your help so far, I love forums like this.
So I have been tinkering.
I have checked the pump filters and they were clean.
I have removed the cartridge from the shower mixer, cleaned it and replaced. Now that the cartridge is back on the temp dial ( which has...
I found a manual:
http://www.bathstore.com/uploads/files/store/products/1423/p18ocgeosk2u2sgv1mg6pgnj403.pdf
And lots of good helpful videos on YouTube about replacing the cartridge.
I was thinking that the mixer valve looks a little lime scaled. So I might start there.
I have not taken one of these apart before so can someone check my thoughts:
Isolate water coming from the pump.
Undo the two pipes that come through the tiles to the mixer head.
Pull the mixer...
Hi squeaky,
The shower will 'sort of' run with the pump switched off, it has to be throttled back to only a dribble to be anything other than freezing cold though.
I will have a look at the filters tomorrow and remove /refit the flex hoses while I'm at it.
The hot water is working fine...