Hi guys.
Got sent to fit a shower pump today, boss ordered it, I picked it up. Had a few little jobs to go to first and arrived to start at approx 12. Pump fitted in airing cupboard at base of cylinder.
Was a bit of a nightmare, loft full of junk, no light, barely any room to move.
The set up was cold to shower was coming directly from the tank with it's own single feed.
Hot was tee'd off before OV pipe and up in to loft and along to supply the shower.
I have reconfigured the new pipes for hot and cold to pump inlets and outlets.
First of all the pump came on when the shower was turned on, but when i turned the shower off, the cold was still running but with little pressure.
The hot and cold were piped up incorrectly in the loft to the shower (cold on left and hot on right). I switched these over to see if it made a difference. It made things worse, now the only water coming out the shower was hot, I could not adjust the temperature to get any cold and also the hot would still continuously run even with the pump and shower off. Also the cold inlet at the pump seemed to be heating up?????
Any ideas? I'll be going back tomorrow but it has really annoyed me, I double checked my pipework multiple times to make sure I havent piped up incorrectly and all appears to be ok but something is obviously wrong somewhere.
For what it's worth the shower is a unit with the big dial for on/off and a smaller temp dial in the center. The tenants said that they have always had trouble with getting a decent temperature.
I'm stumped!
Thanks
Got sent to fit a shower pump today, boss ordered it, I picked it up. Had a few little jobs to go to first and arrived to start at approx 12. Pump fitted in airing cupboard at base of cylinder.
Was a bit of a nightmare, loft full of junk, no light, barely any room to move.
The set up was cold to shower was coming directly from the tank with it's own single feed.
Hot was tee'd off before OV pipe and up in to loft and along to supply the shower.
I have reconfigured the new pipes for hot and cold to pump inlets and outlets.
First of all the pump came on when the shower was turned on, but when i turned the shower off, the cold was still running but with little pressure.
The hot and cold were piped up incorrectly in the loft to the shower (cold on left and hot on right). I switched these over to see if it made a difference. It made things worse, now the only water coming out the shower was hot, I could not adjust the temperature to get any cold and also the hot would still continuously run even with the pump and shower off. Also the cold inlet at the pump seemed to be heating up?????
Any ideas? I'll be going back tomorrow but it has really annoyed me, I double checked my pipework multiple times to make sure I havent piped up incorrectly and all appears to be ok but something is obviously wrong somewhere.
For what it's worth the shower is a unit with the big dial for on/off and a smaller temp dial in the center. The tenants said that they have always had trouble with getting a decent temperature.
I'm stumped!
Thanks