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Hi all,
I was having issues with my shower temperatures being stuck too hot - it wouldn't ever get cold.
It's fed from a combi boiler and has a hand shower head as well as a fixed head on the tiles.
I managed to educate myself on how to configure the temperature and found my happy medium after much twisting and turning. I managed to take a comfortable shower under it and thought that was the end of it.
Wife tells me it's too cold the next day and to be fair it's nowhere near the temperature I had set it up at. Much deliberation later, I gambled on the fact the thermostatic cartridge might be knackered. I've replaced this and I'm getting a similar issue.
I set to a hot max this afternoon but I could still reach cold on the other end of the spectrum. Job done I thought. I've gone to take a shower tonight and it's far far too hot and I couldn't achieve cold. Took the control apart again and I can get a decent max temperature for a minute or so and then it gets hotter and hotter without changing the controls.
Just looking for any last piece of advice before calling a plumber out -
I've replaced the cartridge (and as far as I believe there is no right or wrong orientation to install it)
The water temperature from the boiler is set at 60c max and we don't seem to have temperature issues elsewhere in the house
Boiler is a vokera compact 29a
Any ideas?
Thanks
I was having issues with my shower temperatures being stuck too hot - it wouldn't ever get cold.
It's fed from a combi boiler and has a hand shower head as well as a fixed head on the tiles.
I managed to educate myself on how to configure the temperature and found my happy medium after much twisting and turning. I managed to take a comfortable shower under it and thought that was the end of it.
Wife tells me it's too cold the next day and to be fair it's nowhere near the temperature I had set it up at. Much deliberation later, I gambled on the fact the thermostatic cartridge might be knackered. I've replaced this and I'm getting a similar issue.
I set to a hot max this afternoon but I could still reach cold on the other end of the spectrum. Job done I thought. I've gone to take a shower tonight and it's far far too hot and I couldn't achieve cold. Took the control apart again and I can get a decent max temperature for a minute or so and then it gets hotter and hotter without changing the controls.
Just looking for any last piece of advice before calling a plumber out -
I've replaced the cartridge (and as far as I believe there is no right or wrong orientation to install it)
The water temperature from the boiler is set at 60c max and we don't seem to have temperature issues elsewhere in the house
Boiler is a vokera compact 29a
Any ideas?
Thanks
