While I'm in heating and plumbing mode I thought I'd chuck this one in.
We had a shower in the bathroom that my other half got from Freecyle before we met. She'd had it for about 12 years and it worked fine but just needed a update. I replaced it with a £180 Triton thermostatic shower. This went wrong within a week and they came out and replaced it. 3 or 4 months later, it started kettling and the head would be absolutely full of scale. I thought it might be a fault with the shower so I took it back and got a replacement. That one lasted another 3 or 4 months and started doing the same. The head would need emptying every other day and would be full of scale particles so that it would just spray water from the joints. We just thought it was our water so we persevered with it until it just died completely on Christmas Eve when it was still less than a year old.
Being Christmas, I nipped out and got a £40 Triton shower. It was the cheapest they had but I just wanted to get anything in so we had a shower over the holidays.
Nearly a year later and it's as good now as it was the day I installed it. You might get the odd nozzle go a bit wonky but a quick rub and it's fine again.
So, my question is why has a 40 quid shower lasted longer than 3 £180 showers? I'm just curious, really. I'm going to stick with what we have for the moment anyway.
We had a shower in the bathroom that my other half got from Freecyle before we met. She'd had it for about 12 years and it worked fine but just needed a update. I replaced it with a £180 Triton thermostatic shower. This went wrong within a week and they came out and replaced it. 3 or 4 months later, it started kettling and the head would be absolutely full of scale. I thought it might be a fault with the shower so I took it back and got a replacement. That one lasted another 3 or 4 months and started doing the same. The head would need emptying every other day and would be full of scale particles so that it would just spray water from the joints. We just thought it was our water so we persevered with it until it just died completely on Christmas Eve when it was still less than a year old.
Being Christmas, I nipped out and got a £40 Triton shower. It was the cheapest they had but I just wanted to get anything in so we had a shower over the holidays.
Nearly a year later and it's as good now as it was the day I installed it. You might get the odd nozzle go a bit wonky but a quick rub and it's fine again.
So, my question is why has a 40 quid shower lasted longer than 3 £180 showers? I'm just curious, really. I'm going to stick with what we have for the moment anyway.
