Electric shower (poor flow) (Ed.)

[Seanchadwick2k3]

Hi Everyone

A bit of an odd one.

Had a new Triton electric shower fitted by the landlord about 12 months ago. It always reported low pressure a bit (sort of half lit window) but operated fine unless someone run a tap or flushed toilet etc.

Suddenly recently it powers on and sounds fine but only a trickle of water comes out.

I assumed blocked filters or dodgy solenoid, took the whole thing apart with no sign of blockages and reassembled and was going to use multimeter on the solenoid. Powered the shower up before hand on the off chance it had fixed itself and all working fine and oddly low pressure light was gone for like the first time ever.

All good for a few days and now the same thing has happened again.

Any ideas?

All I can think of so far is maybe there's some crap in the heater which became dislodged when I tipped all the water out and whatever is in there has made its way to the bottom again and blocked it but that's a complete guess. I couldn't see any evidence of timescale but you can't see much in there really.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

All I can think of so far is maybe there's some crap in the heater which became dislodged when I tipped all the water out and whatever is in there has made its way to the bottom again and blocked it but that's a complete guess. I couldn't see any evidence of timescale but you can't see much in there really.

Does it work, with the shower head removed?

 

[Seanchadwick2k3]

No just the same I'm afraid

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

No just the same I'm afraid

Your landlord fitted it, it's his property, you should refer the problem back to him to solve, but it could be the water input filter is blocked.

 

[Seanchadwick2k3]

Sorry forgot to include that we bought the house from him a few months back. I took the filter out last time, removed the heater, pretty much everything and reinstalled it and it was back to normal for a week.

 

[foxhole]

Contact Triton , they can be helpful and suggest suitable solutions.

 

[Seanchadwick2k3]

I'll give ve that a go, will probably strip it down again tomorrow too.

 

[JohnD]

Just to check, it is supplied from the watermain? Not a tank?

 

[Seanchadwick2k3]

Yes that's right from a water main, I've checked all isolation valves and they are fully open.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Sorry forgot to include that we bought the house from him a few months back. I took the filter out last time, removed the heater, pretty much everything and reinstalled it and it was back to normal for a week.

So, if it happened once, it has maybe happened again. Soak the filter in lemon juice, to dissolve limescale.

 

[Seanchadwick2k3]

Within a week though? Our last shower was in form about 10 years before we had any problems and we don't have particularly hard water here