Hi All,
Bought the above shower beginning of last year and installed it in our new bathroom around June last year. Everything was lovely, nice flow and good temp.
We plumbed it into the cold tank in the loft, but we did play around with the shower head. Rather than having the normal hose coming from the bottom of the unit, we've re-routed the hose inside the cavity wall and have a nicer wall mounted, rear fed shower head.
Since Sept the temp of the water has slowly been getting colder and colder. We assumed that this was just because of the outside temperature. We were just going to lump it. But i've decided this is not acceptable. Why should we just lump it. The cold tank that this feeds from isn't insulated. Its just plastic.
I've emailed Triton to see what they said and they've said they're amazed this shower even worked if it wasn't a mains fed supply. I tried arguing with the lady on the phone but she said if the pressure wasn't enough, the heating element wouldn't kick in. I kept saying it's worked since the summer but she wasn't having any of it. If I wanted an engineer it'd be £68.
Anyone got any ideas, is this common over the winter with elec showers? Anything i can do to make the water hot again through the winter months? Will insulating the cold tank in the loft make that much of a difference? Should I try and change this to a mains feed? This would be hard as the wall is now tiled so would avoid this if possible, although could probably get a feed up to my piping already in the loft so could i still be looking at the same cold issue from the loft?
Pee'd off at the moment so any help / assistance would be great.
Thanks in advance
Ross
Bought the above shower beginning of last year and installed it in our new bathroom around June last year. Everything was lovely, nice flow and good temp.
We plumbed it into the cold tank in the loft, but we did play around with the shower head. Rather than having the normal hose coming from the bottom of the unit, we've re-routed the hose inside the cavity wall and have a nicer wall mounted, rear fed shower head.
Since Sept the temp of the water has slowly been getting colder and colder. We assumed that this was just because of the outside temperature. We were just going to lump it. But i've decided this is not acceptable. Why should we just lump it. The cold tank that this feeds from isn't insulated. Its just plastic.
I've emailed Triton to see what they said and they've said they're amazed this shower even worked if it wasn't a mains fed supply. I tried arguing with the lady on the phone but she said if the pressure wasn't enough, the heating element wouldn't kick in. I kept saying it's worked since the summer but she wasn't having any of it. If I wanted an engineer it'd be £68.
Anyone got any ideas, is this common over the winter with elec showers? Anything i can do to make the water hot again through the winter months? Will insulating the cold tank in the loft make that much of a difference? Should I try and change this to a mains feed? This would be hard as the wall is now tiled so would avoid this if possible, although could probably get a feed up to my piping already in the loft so could i still be looking at the same cold issue from the loft?
Pee'd off at the moment so any help / assistance would be great.
Thanks in advance
Ross