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