Recent content by Volks2u

You are probably correct, its bought me a bit more time tho! I know I'm running on borrowed time with the boiler, however I got a competitive quote from the original plumber too. I was anticipating having to spend over £2K which I thought was rather high, I think it will be between £12-1500 quid...

Update... Tipper was correct. I managed to get hold of the plumber who originally fitted the shower and his suggestion was to remove the shower head. With the head removed the shower remained consistently hot. Solution: bought a shower head with "bigger holes" !! I got it off ebay for £11...

Like MJN I think you are correct, what I didn't mention above was the fact that when I run the hot tap the shower is consistently hot. This AM I also watched the boiler cycling on/off as I had my shower, obviously the cold water came through circa 30secs later, not immediately. So can...

Its been a while but had the boiler serviced again and the plumber checked the shower. He thought it was cold water bypassing the mixer seals and fitted a one-way valve to ensure that the cold water wasn't going down the hot pipe. Unfortunately I was distracted with work so didn't get the flow...

Thanks, I'll have a play and note what happens.

I realise that this is an old thread, but I have a similar issue: We have an early Glowworm Swiftflow combi (mid 90's) boiler. The shower was fitted by me by just extending hot/cold pipework from the bath. No pressure equalizing balancing valves are fitted. It worked perfectly for the first few...