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Shower pump acting up

  • 29-03-2018 6:56pm
    #1
    veetwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    We live in a 13 year old house which we bought new. There is a shower pump beside the cylinder in the hot press that pumps the shower in the ensuite. We renovated the ensuite recently and fitted a totally new shower head and controls. Every so often since the renovation the pump refuses to kick in on turning on the shower. It could take up to 10 goes of turning on and off the shower before it kicks in. Any ideas? Is the pump on the way out?


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  • #2
    ibFoxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭ibFoxer


    veetwin wrote: »
    Hi all,

    We live in a 13 year old house which we bought new. There is a shower pump beside the cylinder in the hot press that pumps the shower in the ensuite. We renovated the ensuite recently and fitted a totally new shower head and controls. Every so often since the renovation the pump refuses to kick in on turning on the shower. It could take up to 10 goes of turning on and off the shower before it kicks in. Any ideas? Is the pump on the way out?

    Did the installer move the header tank by any chance? If it doesn't kick in the next time you turn it on try lifting the shower head down a little bit, see if that kicks it in.

    *Not a permanent fix, sometimes the wrong pump is installed for the application (positive where it should be negative etc) but it will help eliminate some of the questions.


  • #3
    veetwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Thanks ibFoxer, as far as I know installer didn't move the tank. I think we have resigned ourselves into accepting that a new pump is ultimately what's required. Just hoping to kick that can down the road for a few months.


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