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Hello,
I've got a thermostatic shower valve feeding a shower head in the ceiling of my bathroom. The bathroom is in my loft, so 3rd floor. I have a system boiler setup on the ground floor.
The shower was running stone-cold whatever the settings so I fitted a new cartridge but even now at it's hottest setting on the tap the shower is still only just warm (almost cold). The only way to get the shower to be hot is to turn on the cold tap in my basin in the same bathroom. I then get a low-pressure hot shower.
Both the bath and basin hot taps have good pressure and I wouldn't say the cold tap is excessive pressure in comparison.
Can anyone tell me what is happening? It seems like the cold water pressure is so much more than the hot that the balance is off...?
Any help will be most appreciated.
Shower valve is a very old Bathstore 3091 but I found all replacement parts and they fitted fine.
the boiler is pretty new and functioning Worcester and Bosch with old Ariston cylinder.
Thanks in advance
Ben
I've got a thermostatic shower valve feeding a shower head in the ceiling of my bathroom. The bathroom is in my loft, so 3rd floor. I have a system boiler setup on the ground floor.
The shower was running stone-cold whatever the settings so I fitted a new cartridge but even now at it's hottest setting on the tap the shower is still only just warm (almost cold). The only way to get the shower to be hot is to turn on the cold tap in my basin in the same bathroom. I then get a low-pressure hot shower.
Both the bath and basin hot taps have good pressure and I wouldn't say the cold tap is excessive pressure in comparison.
Can anyone tell me what is happening? It seems like the cold water pressure is so much more than the hot that the balance is off...?
Any help will be most appreciated.
Shower valve is a very old Bathstore 3091 but I found all replacement parts and they fitted fine.
the boiler is pretty new and functioning Worcester and Bosch with old Ariston cylinder.
Thanks in advance
Ben