I have an unvented hot water system.

Following a recently fitted shower I noticed our hot water all over the
house was coming out tepid--->hot.The worst taps are those nearest to
the shower. I cannot use the shower yet because the water won't come
out hot enough!

British Gas came out today and diagnosed back feeding through the new
shower.The elbow to the hot supply of the shower goes immediately cold
when you turn off the shower and then run the sink tap. If I run the
shower I can get hot water from the sink tap! Is this a faulty shower
with a dodgy non return valve or can it be fixed by reducing the cold
water pressure??

I am assuming the hot and cold water supplies should be at similar
pressures. Is there a risk to the hot water cylinder if the cold is back
feeding to the tank--I note that those that have had a similar problem
in a gravity fed system have had header tanks overflowing! I have no way
of isolating the cold supply to the shower!

Any advice appreciated!

The plumber is coming back on Monday to look at the shower mixer.
The cold is not balanced properly rather than non return valves you need
a pressure reducing valve of the same pressure on the incoming main.
When I do unvented i always do that.



By doing this you will mitigate against future problems with mixer taps etc.

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2011-05-06

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