Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can help me here, as title says, I'm at my wit's end with this problem!
Following info might not be useful in places but the more info the better I hope!
I live in what we call 4 in a block, basically 2 bottom flats and two on top. It's an ex council property.
When the downstairs neighbour's use their water (directly below me) my pressure drops to near enough a trickle, hot water especially. I could live with the taps doing this but the main problem is the shower, it changes to either scalding hot or freezing cold in a matter of seconds, which quite frankly is dangerous, the amount of times I've had to jump out the way of being scalded alive is ridiculous.
Neighbour's say their water is fine, they have no issues whatsoever, pressure and temperature is fine, it just seems to be me.
Water board have been out twice, checked the pressure coming into the house from the street, all checked out fine. Nothing to do with them and nothing they can do they say.
To date I've had 4 different plumbers out and not one can figure out the problem. I even had one fit a brand new electric shower that eventually had to be removed because every time the pressure dropped it was blowing a fuse or something inside and shut down. I have a combi boiler and from what I understand the shower runs from that? (Please correct me if I'm wrong on that) One guy even ran a whole new pipe directly from the loft water tank to the shower but it never made a difference.
I've spoken to another few neighbour's on the street, (all the houses are the same) and they all say their pressure is great with no drops or anything. It just seems to be me this happens to.
I just don't know what to do with this, is really infuriating because nobody can figure it out.
Please does anyone have any suggestions? Any additional info I've missed I will do my best to answer, i just really need a solution to this.
Thank you.
I'm hoping someone can help me here, as title says, I'm at my wit's end with this problem!
Following info might not be useful in places but the more info the better I hope!
I live in what we call 4 in a block, basically 2 bottom flats and two on top. It's an ex council property.
When the downstairs neighbour's use their water (directly below me) my pressure drops to near enough a trickle, hot water especially. I could live with the taps doing this but the main problem is the shower, it changes to either scalding hot or freezing cold in a matter of seconds, which quite frankly is dangerous, the amount of times I've had to jump out the way of being scalded alive is ridiculous.
Neighbour's say their water is fine, they have no issues whatsoever, pressure and temperature is fine, it just seems to be me.
Water board have been out twice, checked the pressure coming into the house from the street, all checked out fine. Nothing to do with them and nothing they can do they say.
To date I've had 4 different plumbers out and not one can figure out the problem. I even had one fit a brand new electric shower that eventually had to be removed because every time the pressure dropped it was blowing a fuse or something inside and shut down. I have a combi boiler and from what I understand the shower runs from that? (Please correct me if I'm wrong on that) One guy even ran a whole new pipe directly from the loft water tank to the shower but it never made a difference.
I've spoken to another few neighbour's on the street, (all the houses are the same) and they all say their pressure is great with no drops or anything. It just seems to be me this happens to.
I just don't know what to do with this, is really infuriating because nobody can figure it out.
Please does anyone have any suggestions? Any additional info I've missed I will do my best to answer, i just really need a solution to this.
Thank you.
