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I apologised for the loose term of phrase before, what I had tried to put across in the term of 'local cowboy, was just that - I meant no harm - it was simply a statement to let any readers of this post know I have used a qualified plumber to do the job. :) Obviously there is something not...

No earth on incoming, all pipes metal on new connections.

Sorry Sparkiemike - no offence meant by 'local cowboy' just a term of phrase. The power shower is fed by hot and cold water pipes (from HW tank and CW header). I've done a bit more investigating. Shower running, pipes do not tingle. I get in shower (the bath is cast iron) and as soon...

Hi, Plumber is qualified - he is from a proper company not a local cowboy ;) It is a brand new power shower and a brand new installation. The shower has its own ceiling pull switch to allow power to/isolate the appliance. This pull switch is from the lighting ring. The lighting ring comes...

Shower installed by proper plumber. Shower works, but after it has been turned on for a couple of minutes, the pipes start to get a current in them - not a ZAP but a tingle. After you turn off shower (with on off button on unit) the tingle goes away. When shower electricity supply is on but...

Tis all now sorted. Managed to find a plumber and hold him hostage till the job was done. Ended up replacing the tap bloc with an equally vile brown thing from b&q. Took plumber about an hour to do it - and most of that was spent turning the water off at the mains (another victim of Lime Scale)

No idea what make the tap is. I can tell you that it is brown and vile. YEUGH - Change The Tap, you all shout. Alright for some but I don't feel quite capable of changing a tap block (yet)... and plumbers are like rocking-horse-poo around here at the moment. so how do I go about finding...

:roll: so may be with no cold water for a while - alternatively we will end up with a nice indoor fountain. does the removal and refit (assuming the Britsh Museum has a spare) take much brain power, and roughly how long to do?

So then I guess i nip down to the local plumbing shop, wave the disc at the man behind the counter and ask nicely "if they have one like this but without limescale?"

Hi, Kitchen mixer tap is dripping from the cold water part only. They are 1/4 turn with ceramic disc. When you turn the tap off it turns easily at first and then feels \\\'gritty\\\' Is it a simple DIY job to fix this? I have a feeling it is a limescale problem (due to where we live)...