Landlord is not fixing shower water pressure

kerri_gt

Prob a silly question but have you checked the shower head / de scaled it? We live in a hard water area and if the head isn't de scaled regularly then the shower performance drops considerably.

Also, check there is sufficient hot water. Our shower pumps from the hot water tank and seems to not pump properly if there isn't enough hot water to flow through.

The other interim solution is to buy one of those push-on tap shower heads and use that until you move, not ideal I know but just an idea.

I appreciate how important a shower can be to some people, I recall an estate agent getting very uppity with me once when I dismissed a property because it didn't have a shower and there was no way we could have put one in (walls not tiled sufficiently) ...apparently 'the two people living here are both working professionals and it's not a problem for them' ...well bully for them was all I could think as I also dismissed the estate agent at the same time with that attitude.

AdrianC

JazzyJelly wrote: »

Its an ordinary shower with a hot water tank. The tank's heating was also tripping and we had to switch it off. This took 2 days to fix. I think its something related to the tank - which may need "servicing"

There's nothing in a hot water cylinder TO service. You're thinking of the boiler.

OK, so is your complaint with the shower related to pressure/flow, or temperature? Bear in mind that all your hot taps are fed from the same cylinder, so the temperature will be the same at every tap... I'm presuming there's a (gas?) central heating boiler? In which case, you don't need the electric immersion heater - all you're doing is wasting money.

But showers show poor pressure most visibly, for two reasons. Firstly, they're the hot tap that you actually require most flow from. Secondly, that they're nearest the level of the cylinder, so most susceptible to a lack of head. If it is a normal hot water cylinder, then the hot water feed to the shower is purely driven by gravity - and if the top of the cylinder is at a similar level to the shower head, you are never going to get a strong flow without a pump.

Like I said somewhere waaaaay up there ^ - it sounds as if the problem is one of expectation mis-match.