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PlumbingNewb
Hi
Our mixer shower has always run slowly with very low pressure (taps seem fine). We asked around and one electrician suggested a dual pump but also told us that this was really work for a plumber. So, we contacted a plumber, told him what the electrian had said and he came out to fit the pump. Its a Salamander CT55 (unsure if more information is needed than that) and it is hooked to our hot water immersion heater (we don't have gas).
Couple of issues:
1. Its extremely noisy - anyone got tips for reducing this? It's acually waking people up in the house!
2. Using the shower, if I turn on the hot water and then the cold, it runs red hot (like the cold tap isnt even on). This is the case even if I turn the hot tap on just a small amount. If I turn on the cold tap first then the hot tap, no hot water fill flow at all and the pump doesnt engage (trust me, I would hear it!)
3. After a short while of running both taps together (hot on first then cold), turning the hot tap off means that I get some warm water - assuming this is hot water that had run backwards up the cold pipe?
My real questions are:
1. Should we have had this single pump fitted or was there a better solution?
2. What on earth is going on with what now appears to be mutually exclusive shower taps? Sink taps will run happily with hot and cold together mixing to make warm, but the bath taps will not (its one or the other).
3. How can we fix it.
Any help VERY much appreciated because at the moment this was £230 down the toilet, so to speak!
Our mixer shower has always run slowly with very low pressure (taps seem fine). We asked around and one electrician suggested a dual pump but also told us that this was really work for a plumber. So, we contacted a plumber, told him what the electrian had said and he came out to fit the pump. Its a Salamander CT55 (unsure if more information is needed than that) and it is hooked to our hot water immersion heater (we don't have gas).
Couple of issues:
1. Its extremely noisy - anyone got tips for reducing this? It's acually waking people up in the house!
2. Using the shower, if I turn on the hot water and then the cold, it runs red hot (like the cold tap isnt even on). This is the case even if I turn the hot tap on just a small amount. If I turn on the cold tap first then the hot tap, no hot water fill flow at all and the pump doesnt engage (trust me, I would hear it!)
3. After a short while of running both taps together (hot on first then cold), turning the hot tap off means that I get some warm water - assuming this is hot water that had run backwards up the cold pipe?
My real questions are:
1. Should we have had this single pump fitted or was there a better solution?
2. What on earth is going on with what now appears to be mutually exclusive shower taps? Sink taps will run happily with hot and cold together mixing to make warm, but the bath taps will not (its one or the other).
3. How can we fix it.
Any help VERY much appreciated because at the moment this was £230 down the toilet, so to speak!