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    Why does shower pressure keep going up and down and hot and cold

    Can anyone please help. We have shower issues and have had for about 2 years. We are in a farmhouse. So before hand, we would turn on our Trevi shower, it would go warm, not great pressure through the showerhead though, somewhere between normal and dripping! After a few minutes, the water flow...
  2. B

    Shower keeps going hot & cold?

    My shower keeps going cold then stays like that for a couple of seconds then goes back to hot & this will keep happening the whole time while showering. It was happening on my previous shower mixer which I then changed to the Mira one I now have & it stopped doing it for a while but now it’s...
  3. R

    Dripping Quarter Turn Cold Water Kitchen Sink Tap.

    I have a quarter turn cold water kitchen tap that has a slight drip and cannot see if the valve assembly is removed from the top? ---- there is a blue plastic cover in the top but does not seem to come off?.......... have photos of tap if anyone can help?.
    • Rodney Rayner
    • Thread
    • cold kitchen sink water
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
  4. M

    My radiotor gets cold after 10 minutes

    One of my radiators which is the biggest one in the living room gets hot at first and I can hear the water flow but after 10 minutes the water flow stops and the radiator gets cold. It has the trv valve and I have to put it close to 4 in order for the water flow to start. The retun valve is...
  5. lambokid123

    one stone cold radiator

    Hello everyone looking for abit of advice I've got a total of 6 radiators in my house 5 are all hot but the and 1 that is stone cold ive checked the trv pin and it doesn't seem to be stuck ive bleed the radiators and hasn't done nothing I turned all other radiators valves off on both ends of...
  6. J

    Radiators on ground floor stone cold

    Hi, We have a issue with our heating, where the radiators upstairs are roasting hot, yet the radiators downstairs are stone cold . We had a powerflush done the other day which didn't help ...Two radiators out of four (including lock shields and TRV's) on the ground floor where changed, but...
  7. J

    Air lock on cold feed from tank in attic

    Hi experts Fast one for ye. Air lock on cold feed from tank in attic. Got rid of it by cracking open nut on gatd valve.if the airlock was on the elbow just after tank connection how could you get rid of it buy opening nit instead of going into attic and cracking open elbow. All compression...
  8. elvis80

    New shower mixer - no cold water

    Right, complete amateur alert... I'm fitting a Bristan recessed thermostatic dual control shower mixer. Have fitted two elsewhere in the house without any issues. Got this one all connected and tested the water...hot is fine, nothing from the cold. When I first turned it on there was sound like...
  9. B

    Showers hot water now cold

    Hi all can anyone help? I have a Mira Silver mixer shower that is fed by a Stuart turner 1.5 twin pump that is about 6 months old which replaced a leaking pump. The last couple of weeks the hot water is ok for pressure but the temperature has dropped to tepid at best and sometimes cold. We don’t...
  10. M

    Cold feed blockage

    Hi all, Quick one (I hope). I have a gravity fed heating system with a glow worm flexicom boiler in the kitchen. A tank in the airing cupboard with a Grundfos Alpha 2 pump. For the last month or so I've had lukewarm water and no heating, have been taking advantage of the immersion but my...
  11. C

    Cold water tank overflowing

    Hi all, looking for some advice about an overflowing cold water tank. Each morning the tank has continued filling up, so by the morning we have water coming out the overflow pipe outside. My initial thought was either (a) the ball valve was not set to the right height to turn off the water...
  12. M

    New boiler, rads keep getting cold

    Hi we had a baxi18 installed June. From day one the plumber could not get all rads hot and to stay on. They came back and changed pump, no difference changed all trvs. Now, the problem is this They all come on and are hot after about 45mins one goes cold and does not come back on . There...
    • Mrs Naylir
    • Thread
    • boiler cold new boiler rads
    • Replies: 43
    • Forum: Boilers
  13. Y

    Cleaning Cold Water Storage Tank

    Hello. Decided to clean sediment from my cold water storage tank(just sediment nothing else is there). The pipe to the tank also splits off and feeds the hot water systems header tank(which also needs cleaned, but the boiler man can do that one). The water tank has 3 outlets. The overflow, one...
  14. F

    I need to turn the water off to cold water tap

    Hi, I was wondering if you could help a beginner to turn off the water to my bathroom tap that needs replacing. I’ve used an isolated valve like the one on the left before and just turn it with a flat head screwdriver, but I’ve not seen the one on the right which is the one I need to turn off...
  15. P

    Shower option - cast your vote! Cold from loft tank VS Pressure Equalising Valve?

    First - an apology for monopolising the forum with all my plumbing questions! I'm hoping this will be my last and I'll move onto something else (like choosing a woodburner, which is the next thing on the to do list)... My situation... We've having a bathroom refit and will have a new bath with...
  16. W

    Salamander pump - no cold water being pumped through

    Hi, I've just moved into a house that has an immersion tank and a Salamander pump above it for the showers. It started leaking after a week and the shower went really hot so we called someone out who replaced an O ring, which stopped the leak, but it's still coming out too hot. I've just checked...
  17. S

    Accumulator or cold water tank+pump

    Hi I own a flat on the third floor of a building. There is an issue with the building water supply due to which there is not enough water pressure and volume reaching our flat. At peak times of the day there is no water coming in the taps. Thames Water will not do anything about it because they...
  18. J

    Retro-fitting balanced cold on an unvented - query

    Hi all, fairly new to G3 work as recently certified (!). Done a couple of installs from scratch, all good. Job here is to retro-fit a balanced cold circuit from a Gledhill unvented to a recently refurbed bathroom that now has all mixers (apart obviously the toilet). Cylinder has Reliance...
  19. R

    combi shows 90 degC but water is cold

    Hi, my combi is protherm lynx 24. I set it to 40 degC to take shower and open hot water, the display shows current water temp, shortly(1-2min) the number on display rises to 80-90 degC, and thinking that the water is hotter than set value it cuts off the flame(gas). Water starts to flow cold...
  20. D

    Kitchen Cold tap not supplied by cold mains?

    Hi There Moved into a new build recently. Noticed that when I turn on the cold tap in the kitchen a pump in the attic seems to activate which would indicate that the cold tap in the kitchen is not fed directly by mains (however i am not a plumber so could be wrong) Prior to noticing this pump...
    • Deleted member 113144
    • Thread
    • cold kitchen mains
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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