Hi there,

We've got an el-cheapo 8.5kw (i thinky) showerforce shower. It's about 6
months old; anyway, it has a low pressure indicator, and basically there's
three 'power' settings:

Cold
Medium
High


On medium the force from the shower is crap, so i use high. To be bareably
hot however, you have to shove the temp dial RIGHT down to low - 1, 2 or 3
respectively (there's about 13 temp options on the dial).

My question is, that when on low (in other words, to have a 'normal' shower)
i find that, as other items are connected to the same supply in some manner,
the shower will show 'low pressure' and go cold immediately.

The thing is, nothing's been touched, the taps are all off and the washing
machines etc, aren't using the cold tap.

We have a boiler in the house, and i was wondering how to increase the
pressure of the cold water to the shower? Everything appears okay, so i
don't know if i'm maybe out of luck with this one. It's not a major problem
as you just shove the dial to above temp.7, then shove it abck to 1 once
it's heated up; but as you can imagine that's a bit of a pain!

Also, we had an engineer out 5 months ago to 'fix' the old 8kw (same shower
just about), as it wouldn't heat, the hot-water boiler-canister had blown!
Before this happened i noticed we had to shove the temp up to 13 (pressure's
right down, water hardly comes out basically when this happened all those
months ago) then shove it back to temp.4 or watever, just to get things back
to normal.

The guy who put our shower in was a complete tosspot, who messed up our
heating, so i was wondeirng if maybe the pressure was genuinly too low for
the shower; OR is it possible we could hook it up to the hot water pipe
instead, as the hot water tap being on doesn't affect teh shower as much
(i've done some wee tests to try determine what the real problem is).

If anyone's got any experience with showers at all i'd like to hear about
it, i'm clutching at straws; don't want to buy a £170 power-shower that wont
work properly

Ta

Make sure your stop cock is fully open, all I can suggest without seeing the
system.

"Robert" wrote in message
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Hi there,

We've got an el-cheapo 8.5kw (i thinky) showerforce shower. It's about 6
months old; anyway, it has a low pressure indicator, and basically there's
three 'power' settings:

Cold
Medium
High


On medium the force from the shower is crap, so i use high. To be bareably
hot however, you have to shove the temp dial RIGHT down to low - 1, 2 or 3
respectively (there's about 13 temp options on the dial).

My question is, that when on low (in other words, to have a 'normal'
shower)
i find that, as other items are connected to the same supply in some
manner,
the shower will show 'low pressure' and go cold immediately.

The thing is, nothing's been touched, the taps are all off and the washing
machines etc, aren't using the cold tap.

We have a boiler in the house, and i was wondering how to increase the
pressure of the cold water to the shower? Everything appears okay, so i
don't know if i'm maybe out of luck with this one. It's not a major
problem
as you just shove the dial to above temp.7, then shove it abck to 1 once
it's heated up; but as you can imagine that's a bit of a pain!

Also, we had an engineer out 5 months ago to 'fix' the old 8kw (same
shower
just about), as it wouldn't heat, the hot-water boiler-canister had blown!
Before this happened i noticed we had to shove the temp up to 13
(pressure's
right down, water hardly comes out basically when this happened all those
months ago) then shove it back to temp.4 or watever, just to get things
back
to normal.

The guy who put our shower in was a complete tosspot, who messed up our
heating, so i was wondeirng if maybe the pressure was genuinly too low for
the shower; OR is it possible we could hook it up to the hot water pipe
instead, as the hot water tap being on doesn't affect teh shower as much
(i've done some wee tests to try determine what the real problem is).

If anyone's got any experience with showers at all i'd like to hear about
it, i'm clutching at straws; don't want to buy a £170 power-shower that
wont
work properly

Ta

On my old Triton T200RE electric shower, THE WORST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER
BOUGHT, now fortunately replaced by two thermostatic showers running of our
big combi, the plastic used for most of the thing was particularly crap and
the little pressure switch was mounted in a bit of plastic that had just
crumbled away. The pressure sensor had a metal bellows acting against a
surprisingly strong spring and when pressure was there the plunger moved
just enough to press on a little switch. Once the mounting was cracked it
used to just push the switch out of the way, but only sometimes. Took a
while to work out what was wrong.

Fortunately the little plastic switch mount was available as a spare. What
wasn't so good was that eventually the whole case back started to break up -
I think the plastic didn't like the heat or something. Needless to say the
"whole case back" was the only part that wasn't available as a separately
orderable part, so I had to buy a complete new unit (so that it would fit
exactly where the old one was). It did a few more years OK service until we
ripped it out in favour of the combi-powered shower. I had a moment of minor
satisfaction smashing it to pieces with my biggest hammer - by the way did I
mention that it was THE WORST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER BOUGHT?

.... and relax.

Regards,
Simon.