Alternative to thermostatic cartridge
Our shower controller uses this thermostatic cartridge and I have to clean or to replace the cartridge every 6 months as it becomes sticky due to scale. It becomes expensive and time consuming and I am looking for a simple mixer valve that would need a lot less attention. Many thanks.
Unfortunately the answer is no you would need to replace thecomplete shower.
However if it is as bad as you say it is most likely thatthe new shower would suffer from the same problem.
For a cartridge to scale up so regularly is very unusual, Iwould give the customer help line of your local water authority a ring and seeif they have any suggestions.
My tow other thoughts would be to fit an inline scaleremover or have two cartridges onecartridge dipped in scale remover allthe time and just swap them round.
Answered 12 years ago by The Shower Doctor
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