Myself and my girlfriend have just moved into a new house in Lingfield, Surrey. Its not a mainbuilder but a barn conversion with a new mains water supply that is more powerful than a… very powerful thing… Anyway, we are having major major trouble with both of our showers and have had the builders back trying to sort it out but the problem is the guy who is sorting it didn’t install either of them.
We have a Baxi combi boiler, its huge and powers all 4 rooms no problem with hardly any waiting for warm water. We have two showers (don’t know the make) one upstairs and one downstairs. The downstairs one worked fine but then after a week couldn’t heat the water up properly, however after myself opening a cold water tap on the sink it worked fine so I figure the cold water pressure is too high. The shower upstairs fires out cold water like a water cannon then goes “clunk” then loses pressure and spits out only hot water.
Im a chartered mechanical engineer and my thoughts were the shower upstairs is piped the wrong way round, ie cold to hot and hot to cold so the shower thermostat goes screwy, but that’s only a guess.
The one downstairs obviously needs a pressure reduction valve on the cold which the guy says he fitted (a little green plastic thing) yesterday but now we cannot open the shower water fully (as if there is a mechanical stop fitted to the tap) and it now trickles out water worse than a 4kw electric piece of rubbish.
Can different pressure reduction devices be fitted? Did he even fit a pressure reduction device? Ive only seen ones that screw onto pipework before. Has he fitted a mechanical stop to the shower as well??
Any advice is hugely welcomed. Ps to top things off, the house across the yard has no shower probs.
Oh, both showers are mixers and i dont know water pressure which i realise isnt very helpful. Both barns have a new mains water supply and when you open any tap its like a water cannon. We dont use both showers at the same time either, only using downstairs one bc upstairs one is totally knackered.
We have a Baxi combi boiler, its huge and powers all 4 rooms no problem with hardly any waiting for warm water. We have two showers (don’t know the make) one upstairs and one downstairs. The downstairs one worked fine but then after a week couldn’t heat the water up properly, however after myself opening a cold water tap on the sink it worked fine so I figure the cold water pressure is too high. The shower upstairs fires out cold water like a water cannon then goes “clunk” then loses pressure and spits out only hot water.
Im a chartered mechanical engineer and my thoughts were the shower upstairs is piped the wrong way round, ie cold to hot and hot to cold so the shower thermostat goes screwy, but that’s only a guess.
The one downstairs obviously needs a pressure reduction valve on the cold which the guy says he fitted (a little green plastic thing) yesterday but now we cannot open the shower water fully (as if there is a mechanical stop fitted to the tap) and it now trickles out water worse than a 4kw electric piece of rubbish.
Can different pressure reduction devices be fitted? Did he even fit a pressure reduction device? Ive only seen ones that screw onto pipework before. Has he fitted a mechanical stop to the shower as well??
Any advice is hugely welcomed. Ps to top things off, the house across the yard has no shower probs.
Oh, both showers are mixers and i dont know water pressure which i realise isnt very helpful. Both barns have a new mains water supply and when you open any tap its like a water cannon. We dont use both showers at the same time either, only using downstairs one bc upstairs one is totally knackered.
