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My rented home has really low water pressure just in the bathroom
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Yeah it is gravity fed. The plumber that did turn up said the only option would be to have an electric shower, but the letting agency has just put off giving us a response to it.
Why would the landlord want to do that?
It's an extra expense the landlord doesn't want. There's no need to provide a shower when you have a bath.:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
Electric showers are rubbish. A cheap fix which will run happily for a couple of years, probably with low pressure and then die.
Actually, it should be ok because it's run off the cold water which has much higher pressure.
Although if they want to install one, they will have to ask the landlords permission.
And yes, the landlord doens't have to install one because they have a bath.Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi0 -
Why would the landlord want to do that?
It's an extra expense the landlord doesn't want. There's no need to provide a shower when you have a bath.
I'm assuming the shower was working when the OP moved in. If so, doesn't the tenant have a right to expect what they signed up for, i.e. a working shower?0 -
Why can't you just attach a shower attachment to the bath taps?0
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I'm assuming the shower was working when the OP moved in. If so, doesn't the tenant have a right to expect what they signed up for, i.e. a working shower?
Unfortunately not in this case. The water comes out of the shower head but the pressure is not sufficient for the OP to have a decent stand up shower and has been stated in the first message has never been up to scratch since May of this year.
It's basically just a bath tap with a shower head connected to it. It's nothing fancy. If the OP lowered the shower head to the bottom of the bath they may get a stream of water sufficient to wash themselves with whilst lying in the bath but raising the head above head height and the water pressure falls and is useless. That's what gravity showers do. Not much the landlord can do about it.
There's no requirement for it to work how the OP wants it work.:footie: Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
OP If you've got a combi boiler a thermostatic bath shower mixer tap may work. The pressure for these comes from the cold supply. They're fitted in place of the taps.
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I'm assuming the shower was working when the OP moved in. If so, doesn't the tenant have a right to expect what they signed up for, i.e. a working shower?
I presume that there was no shower installed and that is what is being asked as a fix to the low pressure issue.
An electric shower would work as it runs off the cold water but this is for the landlord to sign off.0 -
I think it is straight forward that the landlord does not have to replace by law, so if they haven't by now, they are unlikely to do so going forward. The question is: would you be prepared to buy one? If so, you can ask if you could fix one, then be cleared whether you would be prepared to leave it when you move, or take it with you, in which case you will need to put things back as they were before.0
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After buying my first properly I also experienced the same problems with the shower. The water would literally trickle out as if someone had tied a knot to the water feed.
But since I owned my property I fitted a pump and a power shower install so that I could actually have a shower!0 -
happy_2008 wrote: »After buying my first properly I also experienced the same problems with the shower. The water would literally trickle out as if someone had tied a knot to the water feed.
But since I owned my property I fitted a pump and a power shower install so that I could actually have a shower!
I don't think a shower currently exists...0
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