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Applogies guys it's a long story.......
Fella has a bath/shower mixer- apparently a fancy one that was second hand. He's an antique dealer.
Problem is water is too cold to run a bath- thermostatic cartridge right? After some faffing I got hold of manufacturer and dismantled body removed cartridge - which turns out to be bi-metallic strip type. Replacement from local specialist merchant - eye watering -500 squid. Take the unit back put it together and it doesn't work- just no H water flow - so I take another look and new part requires H+C to be opposite way plumbed in. (H-right/C-left) SO I called merchant and asked are some 'cartridges' orientated opposite way? Of course it's a long time wasting , brain draining call back - find out- email - NO. Now by this time I'm well miffed as this is not going according to plan. I seem to be sit job magnet.
Fella has lost his congenial look and now I can see his eyes watering cuz he's adding up my cost plus the part and it's not what he bargained for.
Nothing for but to rip up a tongue and groove floorboard to access pipes below floor and swap them. Always in the awkward place under the bath- but hey ho it went better than I thought and a small stroke of luck it was plastic pipe. Job's a good one- until I test .... better flow but water is warm and until you want it hot- then it shuts off the flow. Ok so now I'm thinking I missed something- all the other H taps are ok, so's the other shower. It's a megaflow- so plenty HW ....if i had hair I'd pull it out!! What is going on? I left...need to think it through, nightmares about it last night and am studying the PDF manuf sent and any other bits I can find online- NO clues as yet. You can't adjust the temp setting on bi-metallic they are just there. YOU can adjust the limiter, but I hadn't even attached that when testing. DID i ruin the 550quid thing when I had it plumbed in the wrong way around initially? The manuf WATTS industries- model ultramix TX93 ANY wise words of advice? Here's a couple of pics..![IMG_20180531_105648074[1].jpg](https://plumbers.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data/attachments/29/29151-2db88beca8488a933c5455641afb6117.jpg "IMG_20180531_105648074[1].jpg")
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Fella has a bath/shower mixer- apparently a fancy one that was second hand. He's an antique dealer.
Problem is water is too cold to run a bath- thermostatic cartridge right? After some faffing I got hold of manufacturer and dismantled body removed cartridge - which turns out to be bi-metallic strip type. Replacement from local specialist merchant - eye watering -500 squid. Take the unit back put it together and it doesn't work- just no H water flow - so I take another look and new part requires H+C to be opposite way plumbed in. (H-right/C-left) SO I called merchant and asked are some 'cartridges' orientated opposite way? Of course it's a long time wasting , brain draining call back - find out- email - NO. Now by this time I'm well miffed as this is not going according to plan. I seem to be sit job magnet.
Fella has lost his congenial look and now I can see his eyes watering cuz he's adding up my cost plus the part and it's not what he bargained for.
Nothing for but to rip up a tongue and groove floorboard to access pipes below floor and swap them. Always in the awkward place under the bath- but hey ho it went better than I thought and a small stroke of luck it was plastic pipe. Job's a good one- until I test .... better flow but water is warm and until you want it hot- then it shuts off the flow. Ok so now I'm thinking I missed something- all the other H taps are ok, so's the other shower. It's a megaflow- so plenty HW ....if i had hair I'd pull it out!! What is going on? I left...need to think it through, nightmares about it last night and am studying the PDF manuf sent and any other bits I can find online- NO clues as yet. You can't adjust the temp setting on bi-metallic they are just there. YOU can adjust the limiter, but I hadn't even attached that when testing. DID i ruin the 550quid thing when I had it plumbed in the wrong way around initially? The manuf WATTS industries- model ultramix TX93 ANY wise words of advice? Here's a couple of pics..
