Shower Broken??

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Hi

Any experts in here.

I was mid way through having a shower last night and the thing just broke on me.

Water started leaking out the bottom of the unit from a rogue pipe, which I didnt know was there. It seems it is a safety pressure pipe which has popped.

I have opened the shower unit up and found this.

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The front pipe is the pipe which the shower head leads too and the smaller rear pipe seems to be the excess pipe for pressure.


If I connect the shower head pipe all the pressure of the water goes to the rear pipe and just leaks down to the floor.


Anyone know if/how I can fix this?

The shower is a Triton T70i.
 
initial thought - is the shower head scaled up?

I hadn't descaled mine for a while and it started causing low flow and overheating problems.

Though it does sound more serious than that :(

Edit :

Forget that - Just watched your video clip and I see the water is coming out the overflow pipe without the shower head even attached
 
We have this happen on our shower due to the head scaling up, pressure building up and the PRD popping.

We've got a similar shower I think (Triton Martinique), and we just replace the PRD when it happens. Alternatively you can get replacement rubber balls and just pop a new one in the PRD. It's not hard to do, just fiddly as ****. :o

Edit: That ebay link is what you want exactly. :)
 
orderoftheflame said:
We have this happen on our shower due to the head scaling up, pressure building up and the PRD popping.

We've got a similar shower I think (Triton Martinique), and we just replace the PRD when it happens. Alternatively you can get replacement rubber balls and just pop a new one in the PRD. It's not hard to do, just fiddly as ****. :o

Edit: That ebay link is what you want exactly. :)
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I was a bit too late but this

It can also happen when adjusting the shower heads flow spread setting (whatever you call it)

Its normally a few quid to replace it and not a hard job as I did one a last year.
 
Had exactly the same thing happen to me on my Triton, ideally you need to work out what the cause of the problem was otherwise it will just blow again when you replace the PRV.

As mentioned above it can be scaling in the head. In my case a lot of debris from the pipes had blocked everything up. The cheaper Tritons from B&Q do not have intake filters so can collect a lot of rubbish.
 
How does one go about de-scaling a shower unit? I have a Mira Advanced ATL Thermostatic and in a pretty bad area for scaling in the water. Not had the problem as of yet but would like to be prepared.
 
I'd personnally just replace the shower unit. Get a triton t80z they are around £100 for a 8.5kw and install it yourself. It's easy and then offer your local electrician £20 to check it and pass it.

I find that if an elecric shower is used everyday then the use life of the shower is around 3 years. Of course it's upto you but I find once they start having problems it's because of lime scale and you fix one part only for another to fail.
 
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