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Dripping from shower head every 2hrs with pump kicking in

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  • 06-01-2020 7:42am
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    pmurphy7
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi
    We have water that trickles from the shower head every 2 hours, the walrus pump then kicks in. Could the fault be linked with a caleffi 3 bar safety valve passing. We also hear a whistling noise in the bathroom as water drips from shower. The on /off for the shower seems to be working fine. The shower is mains feed and is not an electric shower. Similar whistling is heard from under bath until we open a tap and then it resets. The pump kicking in equally resets the noise and stops dripping at shower. This is ongoing since october but havent found a plumber.


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    #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,929 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    I can't get my head round the setup. A mains fed shower on a pump yet has a pressure reducing valve.

    Regardless of the setup I would think the issue is with the mixing valve. The shower valve itself


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    chprt
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭chprt


    Put the pump on a plug, so you only need to turn it on when the shower is on, not when the bog is refilling, getting water from the kitchen etc


    just my 2 cents

    www.onlinemathsgrinds.ie



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    #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,396 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Is it possibly that your shower is fed from your hot/cold tanks? Does same pump come on when you use hot or cold taps in the bathroom?


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