Brown coloured water from electric shower?

tm9

Hi, just wondered if anybody else has come across this. We have a triton electric shower over the bath and we get an orangy/brown staining over the soap dish and tile grout. The same staining appears on the outside of the hose that runs from the shower unit to the hose, and also around a couple of the holes on the shower head. I originally thought that this was just lime scale but I am beginning to wonder whether it might be rust coming from the metal shower hose. We have been looking at new showers and noticed that the Mira showers have a plastic hose rather than a metal hose. I would be really interested to know if anybody else with a triton shower gets this problem. We want to replace the shower and re-tile the walls but we would like to try and solve the mystery of the orange staining first. Many thanks for info and views.

HappyMJ

Do you clean it every day? It just sounds like a mould to me. Nothing to worry about and cleaning down and airing out the bathroom every day will resolve that. I get that as well when I don't clean every day. Just use a spray bottle with a bit of bleach doesn't require much hard work just spray it on and let it do it's work and wipe it down next time you have a shower.

tm9

Hi and thanks for the info. I do clean it everyday but I do no think it is mold (could be wrong of course). If I run the shower and let it run over the white plastic soap dish attached to the rail, then I let the water dry on the dish for a few hours, the white surface of the dish wil be orangey brown colour. This scrapes off easily but it is as if there is rust or something in the water?

googler

tm9 wrote: »

Hi and thanks for the info. I do clean it everyday but I do no think it is mold (could be wrong of course). If I run the shower and let it run over the white plastic soap dish attached to the rail, then I let the water dry on the dish for a few hours, the white surface of the dish wil be orangey brown colour. This scrapes off easily but it is as if there is rust or something in the water?

Take some water from a tap and pour it onto the same place.

If you get the same effect, it's something to do with your water supply, if not, it's something to do with the shower.

WestonDave

Most of those metal shower hoses are a metal chain outer construction with a plastic inner - they wouldn't be water tight otherwise. Its unlikely therefore to be rust from the hose affecting the water. It is quite possible that there are disolved minerals in your water which are crystalising out as the water evaporates - or that there is a form of mould which is not being cleared so is reforming itself fairly quickly. We find we get less of it when we've had a good clean around with neat bleach (which presumably kills it back properly) - we get a clean spell for a while before it starts to appear again. I'm inclined to the mould theory as I know our inlaws get it as well on soft water whereas we have hard water - unlikely there would be sufficient mineral similarity in water 160 miles apart.