Hi,
We've recently moved house and the new place has a pumped shower. It's always been noisy and never offered a great deal of pressure, but had some odd behaviour this morning..
1. Pump always starts with a reasonable pressure then audiably begins to whine and the pressure drops a little.
2. Today - whilst showering, the hot cut out completely - no audiable change in the pump. Turned the shower off and on again, plenty of hot water again. This happened twice.
3. When the mixer control is turned off, the pump continues to run for some time. When I finally got out the shower, the pump continued to run for probably a good 40-50 seconds.
Is this likely just a knackered pump, or is there anything else worth checking first? The pump (located in the loft) appears to be fed from the cold water storage tank (sited directly next to the pump) and a standard hot-water cylinder downstairs.
I'm struggling to rationalise in my mind:
1. Why there was suddently no hot water?
2. Why the pump continues to run - where is it pumping water if the shower is off?
All the best,
Mark
We've recently moved house and the new place has a pumped shower. It's always been noisy and never offered a great deal of pressure, but had some odd behaviour this morning..
1. Pump always starts with a reasonable pressure then audiably begins to whine and the pressure drops a little.
2. Today - whilst showering, the hot cut out completely - no audiable change in the pump. Turned the shower off and on again, plenty of hot water again. This happened twice.
3. When the mixer control is turned off, the pump continues to run for some time. When I finally got out the shower, the pump continued to run for probably a good 40-50 seconds.
Is this likely just a knackered pump, or is there anything else worth checking first? The pump (located in the loft) appears to be fed from the cold water storage tank (sited directly next to the pump) and a standard hot-water cylinder downstairs.
I'm struggling to rationalise in my mind:
1. Why there was suddently no hot water?
2. Why the pump continues to run - where is it pumping water if the shower is off?
All the best,
Mark