Recent content by rockycat

Well I took lots of photos but never got round to posting them. However, I think the problem has been resolved. It turns out that the shower was installed upside down :? On Aqualisa's advice the plumber took off the front plate and checked whether the hot and cold were the right way round...

I'm so sorry, I forgot to thank you for your detailed response. We had a plumber out today who did what you suggested (he agreed there was no need to replace the storage tanks). By "what you suggested" obviously I don't mean that I showed him this thread and he did it at your suggestion, I...

Post deleted for not making any sense - sorry!

Please bear with me, I really am a complete amateur (and a female, if that makes any difference!). We apparently have gravity hot water pumped heating, installed when the house was built in 1968. Our boiler basically has an on and off switch, and a thermostat which I'm told controls the...

Thanks for all of your help. We had a plumber round last night who seems to know what he's talking about, unlike the one who installed the system :x Turns out that as we have an old system the pump would never have worked properly. Our system doesn't separate the hot water and the...

I have absolutely no idea. The renovation work was so major that we had to vacate the house for 6 weeks so the majority of the work went on without us seeing it, not that we would have had much idea anyway. I've asked his boss what he wants us to do next as the plumber is now blaming the...

I know, and the annoying thing is that they strongly advise you to phone them for help with the installation, but I've a feeling our plumber had too much pride to do that. Fortunately for us this was part of a bigger renovation project and we still owe the plumber's employer a lot more than the...

Thanks. I think I'm going to have to get the plumbers back and ask them to phone Salamander. Tonight the shower has gone back to being either scalding hot or freezing cold :(

Thanks. No dripping tap. What's a secondary circuit? Thanks again.

Thank you. I can't see anything that looks like air vents, but a lot of the pipework is behind plasterboard and not accessible without cutting out some of the plaster (which the plumber has already done once, much to our joy!). I think the hot feed is plumbed in at the top, but I might be...

Thanks for your quick response. Like I said, I am a complete amateur: I can see from the manual which part the pressure vessel is, but how would I know if it was set at the right pressure? Thanks again.

Please bear with me, I know absolutely nothing about plumbing and am just trying to identify who needs to be called out to come and help! We've just had a new shower installed upstairs. Our hot water tank is downstairs, so the plumber installed an ESP CPV Salamander pump for negative (I...