Recent content by lgs141

I have a feeling we've left it too long to justifiably get the original engineer back. I'll give the tap a try. Could it help to do a bleed of the system? Would that possibly help with the pipes banging when the shower is on?

Hi For a while now our bath hot water tap has been about half the flow as it was previously. I think this may have started happening after our boiler had a leak and needed repair. I'm not completely sure what work was carried out by the engineer, but I think it may have involved a some sort of...

Tried another shower head, didn't make any difference unfortunately.

Oh sorry you meant the shower head... clearly I've had a long day, I thought you meant the head off of the shower unit itself. :P I'll give that a try tonight

The left pipe in the image is the one that gets hot. The right pipe is cold the entire time. Picasso are you suggesting that I first turn on the shower, then remove the head while it is still active?

We have a Vaillant turbomax vuw 242e. I have just tested and noticed this - The boiler does not kick in at all until I hit a certain point on the shower dial (about half way) - Once I hit that point, the boiler kicks in but that specific temperature is very hot, almost burning - If I lower the...

Hi, We have a shower (not electric) that can't hold its temperature. If we set the temperature to anything below very hot (almost burning), the temperature is steady and doesn't change during the course of the shower. If we set it to anything below that, after a certain period of time -...

Hi, I recently bought a home, built in 1997. The kitchen floor tiles were all cracked due to the previous owners being a bit heavy handed when they moved out. I've started to pull up the tiles (ceramic?) And under a few of them I've found some black residue that I initially thought was...