I hate showers and never get involved with them,electric,gravity,pumped,thermostatic,mixer,concealed,shower trays,wastes,doors,all a pain in the f*****g arse,just glad there's keen plumbers like you,thank you
Pumped shower problem
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Shower feeds are decaicted supply's, cws and separate feed off hot tank.
Shower is a fixed head.
Gonna check nrvs and poss fit air vents and see what that does.
Thanks everyone for the advice.
Ok I've been back Friday and fitted air vents got the shower up and running working fine pump,on and off.
I recorded a vide here..
Shower is a low pressure shower here. http://catalogue.frontlinebathrooms...dian-concealed-thermostatic-shower-valve.html
Left all working good, got message sat night, not working again.
We can't afford £400 odd on a pump we shouldn't need. I specced the pump as the tank is high enough not to need and have installed plenty of showers like this with no problems.
....?
I recorded a vide here..
Shower is a low pressure shower here. http://catalogue.frontlinebathrooms...dian-concealed-thermostatic-shower-valve.html
Left all working good, got message sat night, not working again.
We can't afford £400 odd on a pump we shouldn't need. I specced the pump as the tank is high enough not to need and have installed plenty of showers like this with no problems.
....?
Sometimes it's cheaper to go with the expensive option to save face.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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Ermm... No about a meter and a bit at a guess.
The video shows flow without the pump when I left.
No not yet, the cover plate has been siliconed on and will be difficult to remove. But an option I will have to try.
What pump are you using and what type of HW cyld flange?
Stuart turner I think.
It's a new cylinder, so I used a secondary tapping as said in an earlier post.
It's got to be the pipework then, somewhere it's either going negative or air is being caught somewhere and it then can't get the flow at the showerhead to start the pump. You do initially get enough head so it can't be the check valves or you wouldn't get any flow at all, all of the time.
It's back to a dribble?
If trying a negative pump isn't an financial option then I would try bypassing the flow switch and running it manually just to test if it runs fine every time, as said in an earlier post
If it then runs without issue then it has to be a flow issue and a universal pump may be your only option or a re-pipe.
It's back to a dribble?
If trying a negative pump isn't an financial option then I would try bypassing the flow switch and running it manually just to test if it runs fine every time, as said in an earlier post
If it then runs without issue then it has to be a flow issue and a universal pump may be your only option or a re-pipe.Ok, so I've been back and redone the pipe work, it's not pretty and I'm not proud but I did what I needed to do in a short space of time. Put two auto vents in loft to shower.
Hopefully this will improve things, time will tell.
Hopefully this will improve things, time will tell.
Fingers crossed.
Looks like a monsoon? Have the inlets been reduced to 15mm before increasing to 22mm at the flexi's and reduced again to 15mm after the outlets?
Check the MI, if it's all run in 15mm then that could be causing you problems.
Looks like a monsoon? Have the inlets been reduced to 15mm before increasing to 22mm at the flexi's and reduced again to 15mm after the outlets?
Check the MI, if it's all run in 15mm then that could be causing you problems.
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