I’ve lived in a brand new three storey house for 2 years and everything has been fine until 6 weeks ago when our area had a leak in a main pipe.We had some water in the downstairs taps but the downstairs toilet,washing machine and no taps,toilets,showers or immersions would work.It took the water board 10 days before they fixed it and we had to live like this.
For almost a week the same thing has happened,we phoned the waterboard Tuesday night and they said they had been doing some work locally which would have affected the pressyre and everything should be fine in a couple of hours but today it’s still as bad if not worse.
Someone from the waterboard came out 2 days ago and said the works were done and there was nothing wrong with the pressure.
Some of our neighbours are having trouble too but not so bad as us(when we had the first leak none of their showers would work and there was no water getting to their immersions but they had water in upstairs taps and toilets)
It seems to just be affecting the showers now,the toilets are ok and the taps are but we have two showers(one in an en suite so we know it can’t be that both showers have broken the same day)
One of our showers has a light that comes on saying low water pressure and will blast water out but only cold,no hot at all even at the highest setting and the other shower which doesn’t have this feature will only shoot out boiling hot water,you can’t get any cold to it.
Could it be that over the last 2-3 weeks new flats have been leased at the end of my road and people are moving into them on a daily basis,Are they taking water and out supply can’t handle it,or could our house be at the end of a line and we are getting the leftovers etc.
We have to make a 15 mile trip every evening to shower at my mum in laws,it’s worse because my son has a severe skin disorder called icthyosis and he has to shower daily and bath for 30 mins 3 times a week in special stuff.
The waterboard won’t do anything because we have water coming out of the kitchen tap,they deem this enough.
Just to add that we have checked the stopcock and all fuses are fine.The showers sometimes will work,you shampoo your hair and then depending which shower your in,your either burnt with boiling water or frozen with icy blasts.
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Google complain water board. There must be something going on that the water board maintain.
it is electricity that heats the cold shower water,check to see if a fuse has blown,also did you turn the stop cock off or down so reducing water pressure,things can happen in two,s
air locks in the pipes maybe. all sounds very strange
check for mineral deposits blocking the water heater intake preventing water from getting into the unit
it sounds as though you did have low water pressure when they were working on the piping system. it seems to be OK now as it is under pressure but. you are not getting hot water. the lamp says ‘low water pressure’.
most likely occurrence is that the work on the system has released mineral deposits that have travelled along until they got to You shower unit. it may well have an internal filter which is partially blocked. also it may be a fault withing shower unit itself that is Simply indicating ‘low’ pressure when in fact it isn’t. here we need ot get somebody top have a look at the shower unit as suspect prime problem .
Your kitchen sink cold tap is probably the only one that is connected directly to the incoming mains water pipe. If the water pressure from that is what it should be then the fault is somewhere inside the house pipework.
It is common for all other cold water taps, electric shower feeds and toilets to be fed directly from the cold water cistern in the attic. This maintains a cold water pressure that is equal to the hot water taps, which are fed from the heat exchanger in the airing cupboard cylinder (which is also fed from the tank in the attic).
Check that the big tank (cistern) in your attic is filling properly. If it is always partly empty or fills slowly then that will reduce your “head” of water pressure for everything except the kitchen cold tap. If someone draws water or pulls a flush then the pressure will drop for someone taking a shower.
The cistern may be suffering from a faulty ball cock (float valve) or from a partially closed gate valve (the ones with the ring type handles) in the airing cupboard.
The shower will be reacting to low incoming water pressure. If the pressure drops then the thermostat will try to reduce the heating effort but because of lag in the system it can’t keep pace with the water pressure fluctuations and so you get temperature variations.