Shower/Combi-Boiler Problems in Rented House :(

jamesdaly

Ok this all makes perfect sense - thank you everyone, you have all been very helpful.

I will bring this up again, feeling a bit more knowledgeable about the causes and solutions which will help a lot. Thanks!

diywhynot

jamesdaly wrote: »

Hello everyone.

Firstly, thank you for reading and to anyone kind enough to help me out.

Basically, this week I moved into my new flat all excited. Its been all very good except the shower and the landlord is refusing to acknowledge the problem saying he had it working fine and doesn't have time to come over and look at it (probably because it will be costly to fix I assume). The shower is directly from the taps.

In the shower basically the water is either scolding hot (I'm not exaggerating its unbelievably hot) or its freezing cold. You turn the hot tap on - hot as you would expect - you turn the cold tap on it stays the same heat except until at one specific point, it just goes cold straight away - you then turn the cold tap back until again it goes boiling hot. So it is either extremely hot or cold and is so so annoying. It is combi boiler system and I have no idea what the problem is or how this works.

Please, does anyone have any idea what this is likely to be? I am very keen to pinpoint the problem and be as precise as possible when bringing this up again.

Thank you so much and sorry for the long post!

James D

Do you have the same problem with kitchen taps, bathroom basin taps? Make and model of combi boiler?

jamesdaly

diywhynot wrote: »

Do you have the same problem with kitchen taps, bathroom basin taps? Make and model of combi boiler?

Yes, same problem, though obviously much more noticeable in shower. Make: Ideal, Model: Response 120

diywhynot

Nothing to do with the brassware then. Call your landlord as the boiler needs to be looked at by a RGI for diagnosis and repair.

keystone

diywhynot wrote: »

Nothing to do with the brassware then.

Mmm - interesting suggestion. A kitchen mixer has separate ways for hot and cold with mixing taking place at the spout rather than in the body. I don't think OP has suggested that the basin tap is a mixer either. So I'm not, at this time convinced.

However perhaps we should ask what the termperature is set to for the DHW on the boiler. If its been set too high to try and get the non-thermo shower behaving then that would account for the hot being too hot at the basin hot tap.

But on the other hand the boiler is an Ideal - so you are probably right to advise getting it looked at especially if it hasn't been serviced for a while.

Cheers