I think my plumber has ruined my plumbing

[secret squirrel]

Usually under the bath

No, not usually under the bath,

needs air circulation and easily accessable for maintenance, normally airing cupboard close to the hot water cylinder.

 

[TBServices]

No, not usually under the bath,

needs air circulation and easily accessable for maintenance, normally airing cupboard close to the hot water cylinder.

Lol, top advice from the self confessed novice.

 

[tamz]

not seen that product before tamz you fitted them ?

I've fitted a few and they work very well.

 

[dns1]

No, not usually under the bath,

needs air circulation and easily accessable for maintenance, normally airing cupboard close to the hot water cylinder.

Ok, I stand corrected. I have however seen many fitted under baths and working perfectly...

As a sparks, I've also been asked to connect a fair few up, all under baths. Of course this may relate to the fact that bathroom electrics are notifiable so not permitted by unregistered persons. I'll assume that I've never been asked to connect up an airing cupboard pump as most plumbers will just do it themselves!

 

[Guest123]

He has connected your cold supply from the mains and the hot is still gravity fed, so no wonder there is an imbalance of pressure. This is needing fixed and the only way he can do this is to fit a pressure reducing valve on the cold main before it enters the shower and adjust it to balance the pressure from the hot supply. Failing that the whole lot will need ripped out.

 

[tom609]

what make of shower is it as a trevi boost works off tank fed hot and mains cold water

 

[tom609]

whoops should have read all the posts instead of a couple the boost already mentioned

 

[Evol Intent]

Hi again guys,


Rang the guy up and he gave excuse after excuse, trying to give it the old sweet talk to my dad, but I wasn't having any of it. He simply does not understand the concept of unbalanced pressures. Even when explained to him in what I like to call "Pakistani English" 😀 The trevi boost shower is a no go I'm afraid as we simply can't afford such an expensive shower as I've read mixed reviews of it. He's gonna rip a few tiles off and reconnect the cold water pipe from the gravity fed tank. I think he may have mucked the pipework up because of us having a gravity fed system and an old hot water cylinder, as there is only around 2.5-3m distance from the bottom of the cold water tank to the shower mixer and since it's an overhead shower, he probably thought more pressure is better haha. I've realised that it probably requires minimum 1 bar of pressure, so we're going to have to change it. I really wanted to get a GROHE-Grohtherm-1000-Thermostatic-Shower-Mixer-KIT as I heard Grohe have fantastic build quality (again minimum 1 bar of pressure). My uncles combi boiler still works when the pressure is below 0.5 bar and his hansgrohe shower still kicks out a decent amount of water. Would it be impractical to buy a shower with a minimum of 1 bar, when I have only 0.25-0.3 bars.

Many thanks in advance!

 

[Ruff-Ass]

[h=2]I think my plumber has ruined my plumbing[/h]

I feel for you .. it is such a dodgy trade..

 

[tom609]

how do yo know its 1/2 a bar??

 

[tom609]

if you have low pressure you need a low pressure shower many manufacturers make low/high pressure showers including grohe

 

[Evol Intent]

how do yo know its 1/2 a bar??

The pressure gauge on his combi-boiler sometimes goes town to 0.5

 

[Dotty]

Hi again guys,


Rang the guy up and he gave excuse after excuse, trying to give it the old sweet talk to my dad, but I wasn't having any of it. He simply does not understand the concept of unbalanced pressures. Even when explained to him in what I like to call "Pakistani English" 😀 The trevi boost shower is a no go I'm afraid as we simply can't afford such an expensive shower as I've read mixed reviews of it. He's gonna rip a few tiles off and reconnect the cold water pipe from the gravity fed tank. I think he may have mucked the pipework up because of us having a gravity fed system and an old hot water cylinder, as there is only around 2.5-3m distance from the bottom of the cold water tank to the shower mixer and since it's an overhead shower, he probably thought more pressure is better haha. I've realised that it probably requires minimum 1 bar of pressure, so we're going to have to change it. I really wanted to get a GROHE-Grohtherm-1000-Thermostatic-Shower-Mixer-KIT as I heard Grohe have fantastic build quality (again minimum 1 bar of pressure). My uncles combi boiler still works when the pressure is below 0.5 bar and his hansgrohe shower still kicks out a decent amount of water. Would it be impractical to buy a shower with a minimum of 1 bar, when I have only 0.25-0.3 bars.

Many thanks in advance!

Don't worry about Ruff, he's a grumpy tiler in the middle of learning the facts of life and how far down the food chain he exists!

Evol, may I suggest you tell us roughly where you are mate? It might be an idea to get one of us in to look.

 

[Ruff-Ass]

Only down the food chain coz croppie scranned it all 🙂

 

[Evol Intent]

if you have low pressure you need a low pressure shower many manufacturers make low/high pressure showers including grohe

Hi there,

I have checked everywhere but can't seem to find a grohe shower that supports from 0.1 bar minimum. I found one 'Cosmopolitan 1000' that stated it was 0.1 bar on one site, but every other site claims it is 1 bar minimum pressure. Help! Haha

 

[tom609]

how d you know its 1/2 a bar

 

[tom609]

without checkingso dont quote me i think the avensys does both high and low pressure

 

[Evol Intent]

Don't worry about Ruff, he's a grumpy tiler in the middle of learning the facts of life and how far down the food chain he exists!

Evol, may I suggest you tell us roughly where you are mate? It might be an idea to get one of us in to look.

Hi Croppie,

Unfortunately this isn't feasible as my parents are adamant on making this guy finish the job and they don't want to cause any aggro, because this guy still hasn't been paid yet haha.

 

[Ruff-Ass]

Kick him off the job and get a tiler into plumb it right, after all it is easy so they say. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

 

[tom609]

he is a tiler