Can anyone help me please? Last summer we had builders in repairing our home after the big floods. We mentioned that we would like a new bathroom and one of them (a friend of my husbands family) said he could do it. So we paid him to do it (turned out to be a big mistake!). He persuaded us to switch from our trusted over the bath mixer shower to an independant over the bath thermostatic shower. We picked one with a large umbrella head & 2 jet sprays for your back from screwfix. Initially it worked fine but he turned up about a month later saying he needed to fit a coil to the water pipe for safety. Since then the shower has run virtually cold and turning the thermostat up to max makes no difference. The only way I can have a warm shower is to turn the cold bath tap on at the same time. To make matters worse he has since emigrated to Spain! Is this easy to fix - I don't intend on doing it myself but I want to know what needs doing so we don't get ripped off again.
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cowboy left us with cold shower!
- Thread starter tigsmom
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whats this coil he fitted ?
Pictures of the "coil" that he fitted would be useful.
The coil will not affect the hot water temp as it is for earthing your pipes.
If your basin and bath hot water is hot then you should be looking at the shower manual for details of how to adjust the shower thermostat.
If your basin and bath hot water is hot then you should be looking at the shower manual for details of how to adjust the shower thermostat.
Sounds as if the pressure on the cold is too high for the hot as when you open the cold tap with the shower running it works ok?
If thats the case a PRV on the cold main to the shower should sort the problem.
If thats the case a PRV on the cold main to the shower should sort the problem.
pressure equalising valve will work better.
without sounding too much like a dumb blonde 
is a PRV and a pressure equalising valve the same thing? There's a screw type valve on one of the pipes that my hubby turned when the underbath pipe leaked through to the kitchen but the 'cowboy' came back & fixed that so I assumed he'd turned it back on again.
is a PRV and a pressure equalising valve the same thing? There's a screw type valve on one of the pipes that my hubby turned when the underbath pipe leaked through to the kitchen but the 'cowboy' came back & fixed that so I assumed he'd turned it back on again.
prv is a pressure reducing valve.
and no they are not the same.
and no they are not the same.
sorry yes you're right seco, but again i'm still guessing to that being the fault in the first place LOL
what uneven pressures ?
maybe tigsmom will give us a bit more info on what type of system the hot/cold is runniing from.
if its connected under the bath poss running off a combi.
maybe tigsmom will give us a bit more info on what type of system the hot/cold is runniing from.
if its connected under the bath poss running off a combi.
Is it likely to be costly? And we know another plumber but he isn't corgi registered - is he able to fix it or would we need a corgi reg plumber? Also, our cowboy left us with a squeeky central heating boiler too - any ideas whats causing it? Everything was fine until he did the bathroom!
your plumber can do the shower if hes not corgi.
why do you say he left you with a squeeky boiler ? and not a fault that just happened to occur when he was round etc.
what boiler/system is it ?
why do you say he left you with a squeeky boiler ? and not a fault that just happened to occur when he was round etc.
what boiler/system is it ?
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