Ever since I had my shower installed (about 4 years ago), the temperature adjustment valve has been very very stiff when I wanted to turn the temperature down. Stupidly, I never got the plumber back in to snag it, but it now seems to be getting worse, so that it's impossible to turn the shower down to anything less than uncomfortably hot.
I've taken the front off the tap, and have played around with just adjusting the valve thing itself. It's strange, I can start at a cool temperature below 38c, depress the safety button and take it to about 40c, but then there's like a quiet 'click' or a 'clank' in the pipework behind the panel, and I can feel a slight 'click' on the knob, and suddenly it goes scalding hot, and I can't turn the knob back cooler again... If I push the knob really really hard, I can force it back in increments. The same thing happens even before I get to the point where I depress the ready safety button, I can't turn the temp down again.
The movement seems to be perfectly OK (if a little 'sticky') until I actually turn the water on, then it just sticks as described above. It's very free to rotate anti-clockwise to make it hotter, but just won't go clockwise to make the water cooler again.
It's driving me mad. Any advice would be gratefully received. Would attach an image, but not sure how to do so!
Simon[/b]
I've taken the front off the tap, and have played around with just adjusting the valve thing itself. It's strange, I can start at a cool temperature below 38c, depress the safety button and take it to about 40c, but then there's like a quiet 'click' or a 'clank' in the pipework behind the panel, and I can feel a slight 'click' on the knob, and suddenly it goes scalding hot, and I can't turn the knob back cooler again... If I push the knob really really hard, I can force it back in increments. The same thing happens even before I get to the point where I depress the ready safety button, I can't turn the temp down again.
The movement seems to be perfectly OK (if a little 'sticky') until I actually turn the water on, then it just sticks as described above. It's very free to rotate anti-clockwise to make it hotter, but just won't go clockwise to make the water cooler again.
It's driving me mad. Any advice would be gratefully received. Would attach an image, but not sure how to do so!
Simon[/b]
