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Both electric showers in house stopped working

  • 14-01-2011 9:57am
    #1
    Some_randomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭


    Hi - I live in Beaumont and have 2 instant electric showers one upstairs and one downstairs. We've been having our water cut off at 6 and coming back at 12 the next day for the past couple of weeks. This has been fine as we've been working around it and the tank has been filling up during the day.

    However about 3 days ago the upstairs shower stopped workin, making a whirring noise with very litle water coming through. Then the downstairs one went a day later. The strange thing is that there is water in the attic tank, last night I checked it and it was full. The council website says the water pressure in Collins Avenue and Ballymun will be down for a few days this week, but surely if my attic tank is full the shower should work?

    Is there anything that I need to do? Does the outside mains water pressure affect the showers even if the tank is full?


    TIA.


Comments

  • #2
    DEVEREUX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭DEVEREUX


    Air locked, what make is the shower?


  • #3
    Some_randomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Some_randomer


    DEVEREUX wrote: »
    Air locked, what make is the shower?

    Hi Devereux, both showers are the Triton T90si make. Sounds like an air lock all right but I don't see how that happened, the tank was refilling every day so it wouldn't have ran low.

    What's the best thing to do...someone suggested running the hot tap on the bath to see if this clears it. Also I believe that these Tritons can be bled, is it hard to do for a not very handy man?


  • #4
    DEVEREUX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭DEVEREUX


    hello again sorry for not posting back sooner. Yes they can be bled please see bleed key marked in image below. Be sure to knock power off before taking cover off unit.


  • #5
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    It might be also dirt in the filters ,in the picture that devereux uploaded see fig 15.

    This is the filter which can be unscrewed from the shower by hand ,check the metal mesh and rinse it out under a tap.

    Dirt from the bottom of the tanks may have unsettled with all the draining.


  • #6
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    My bet would be airlocked. Most plumbers that plumb these go around 6" to avoid problems. Would not take your tank long to drop this low. The airlock could have happened then just fill over it.

    No harm in clearing the airlock and the filter at the same time though as the tank can mix up a lot of crap when refilling.

    Aside from that these showers are bullit proof... very rarely just stop like that


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