Triton Ivory Water temperature

Hi, hope you can help...

I have an Ivory2 (for about 4 years) and I’ve been having intermittent problems with water temperature over the last 6 months or so. Most lately water temperature has been too hot or completely cold. I live on the first floor of a purpose built 3 storey block of flats so I’m aware that pressure isn’t the best, even though the shower has been fine for years.

I’ve done the TCO continuity test and it registers ok. I’ve also taken the shower head of and run full cold and hot and water appears to coming out ok. Is there an easy method of testing the ‘bar’ of the water coming out, without a gauge?

To top it all, it’s now not turning the water supply off when I switch the shower off. I see from other threads that this is likely to be that the solenoid valve has failed.

Please can you advise what the temperature issue may be related to as it is now constantly cold?

Many thanks in advance.

Asked 12 years ago by Anonymous

The things to check first are.

1 That the main valve coming into your house is fully open.

2 Then check that the valve on the line to the shower is fully open.

If these valves are not fully open then there may not be enough water
getting to your shower  open / close the safety device that allows power through to the elements and exactly the same problem if you don’t have enough pressure.

You could give your local water authority a ring an ask them what your water pressure should be, they will probably say that the supply a minimum of 1bar (the minimum required to operate a shower)however press them and ask what it is likely to be first thing in the morning (when everybody is showering)

 

They could have the pressure turned down because they are working on the main, or because there is a burst pipe some where and they have turned the pressure down to try to save water, or the pressure maybe low just because there is a burst pipe somewhere, that hasn’t been discovered yet!

Answered 12 years ago by Anonymous

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