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I had a new bathroom last year with thermostatic shower fitted. All old steel pipework replaced with copper.
My shower controls the bath tap also, and from the bath tap (only) I have the following symptoms, never the shower itself:
- After sitting sometime and turned on, the water is initially orange and rusty looking.
- Strange flow from tap, decent enough but clearly obstructed by something
- Takes a long while to stop flowing completely when the valve is shut off.
Am I right to assume some crud from the old pipework has made its way into the shower unit and is now sitting in the pipework / valve?
Will this eventually dissolve over time and pass through? Can I speed this up somehow without knackering the copper pipe and the shower?
Anything I can do short of ripping into the tiled cavity and removing the shower?
Unfortunately the fitters who did our bathroom have turned out to be very poor overall, I have had numerous other issues and have reached the stage now where I don't want them anywhere near my house again. Im a DIY-er but have hid from plumbing - till now.
My shower controls the bath tap also, and from the bath tap (only) I have the following symptoms, never the shower itself:
- After sitting sometime and turned on, the water is initially orange and rusty looking.
- Strange flow from tap, decent enough but clearly obstructed by something
- Takes a long while to stop flowing completely when the valve is shut off.
Am I right to assume some crud from the old pipework has made its way into the shower unit and is now sitting in the pipework / valve?
Will this eventually dissolve over time and pass through? Can I speed this up somehow without knackering the copper pipe and the shower?
Anything I can do short of ripping into the tiled cavity and removing the shower?
Unfortunately the fitters who did our bathroom have turned out to be very poor overall, I have had numerous other issues and have reached the stage now where I don't want them anywhere near my house again. Im a DIY-er but have hid from plumbing - till now
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