Shower head flakes

pisaia

Hi, recently my shower has been getting hotter and hotter so I assumed the shower head was getting clogged up with limescale so i cleaned it with limescale remover like I normally do every 6-12 months.

Upon rinsing the head out this time there were literally hundreds of little flakes coming out. Everytime I poured more water in the shower head and emptied it more flakes came out, even after 5 minutes this was occurring.

I gave up and connected the shower head and it now seems to be back to normal even though there is probably still tons in there. Just wanted to get some opinions on it, is it just limescale as i’ve never seen this before and when i ran the shower with no head connected, for the first 2 seconds flakes also came out the shower head pipe.

The shower is a Mira power shower and is 3 years old, there was no shower at all previously so all the plumbing to the shower unit is fairly new. the head and hose is less than a year old and the house was built in 1989. No sign of flakes from other taps. Many thanks

pisaia

Here’s an image

grumbler

I have no idea about the origin of the flakes, but I'd rinse the shower for few minutes with the shower head removed and at the maximum flow (lowest temperature setting)

neilmcl

It looks like a mixture of limescale and copper pipe deposits, do you have a system or combi boiler?

pisaia

System with a cylinder and tank

grumbler

I thought that "getting hotter and hotter" implied and electric shower. If so, it's fed from the mains water, not from the cylinder and the tank.

neilmcl

grumbler said:

I thought that "getting hotter and hotter" implied and electric shower. If so, it's fed from the mains water, not from the cylinder and the tank.

Hence why I asked.

southcoastrgi

It's scale