New and wanting help. Air in the system?

[Francisco Barros]

Hi
Got a new house and has a power shower fitted.

A few weeks after moving in the shower started to struggle, like water wasn’t coming through.
Got a “Triton power shower” but the problem still there. Sometimes worked a little better and sometimes didn’t but always struggling , sounded like an engine when stationary but still pressing on the pedal.

Got a plumber and he fitted a valve in the loft to release the air.

Problem still there and he advise to replace the shower was it was faulty.

Got a new shower today and before I installed it done some tests:
- try to bleed the radiator in the bathroom that it’s connected to the hot water system (at least it’s what I think), no luck.
- check the water coming to the shower pipes without anything attached and clearly can be seen struggling.
- used the trick to block the hot water in the kitchen and while blocked open the cold, no luck.

Fitted the new shower but still doesn’t work.
Tried to let it run without the shower head and it does run (struggles) but 10 minutes later wife goes to have shower and doesn’t work, goes dry.

I have water tank in the loft that feed the hot water tank, the locking thing works.
In the kitchen there is a boiler that heats the water and does the radiators.

It doesn’t have a Surrey or Sussex flange but after discussing it with the plumber he says the way it is should work.

Any help would be welcome as I am relying on a jug for shower as the other shower in the bath has no pressure.

 

[rpm]

Hi
Got a new house and has a power shower fitted.

A few weeks after moving in the shower started to struggle, like water wasn’t coming through.

Anything else done in the house in these few weeks?

 

[townfanjon]

Can we double check , the shower is defo a power shower . ie it has an internal pump ? And uses tank fed cold and hot water from the cylinder.

 

[Francisco Barros]

Anything else done in the house in these few weeks?

I installed a nest and have the tank on a schedule to come on twice a day. Also the electric back up heating element it’s always off.
Don’t believe they are related.

 

[Francisco Barros]

Can we double check , the shower is defo a power shower . ie it has an internal pump ? And uses tank fed cold and hot water from the cylinder.

Yes correct, no heating element just the pump. Cold from the tank in the loft and and hot from the cylinder T on the top/ left .

 

[Francisco Barros]

When I turn the cold water feed from the tank in the loft to the the cylinder off, there is no water coming out of the taps. Is this a normal behaviour?

 

[townfanjon]

Ideally your taps should be “mains “ fed but some are tank fed, does this turn the cold to the shower off ?

 

[Francisco Barros]

Ideally your taps should be “mains “ fed but some are tank fed, does this turn the cold to the shower off ?

Don’t know what you mean by that? They are mains as they got pressure. My finger doesn’t stop the flow , where as in the hot does .

 

[townfanjon]

Not sure myself pal , a power shower should not be mains fed , it should be fed by a tank ( cold from tank in loft , hot by the cylinder )

 

[Francisco Barros]

Not sure myself pal , a power shower should not be mains fed , it should be fed by a tank ( cold from tank in loft , hot by the cylinder )

It is being fed by the tank and not mains. And hot water from cylinder.