Water pressure ground floor bathroom

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on May 18, 2014 at 16:42

Your kitchen should be mains water supplied so won't be affected by whatever the upstairs flat does. Your shower may be coming from a tank in the loft (ours does) and if they share the supply I suppose it gets to them first leaving you with a dribble. Though I've noticed you say that your boiler heats the shower water. Do you have a hot water tank or is it a combi? Also, are you sure that the shower is just using hot water and doesn't have it's own heating element?

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Permalink Reply by James Whyte on May 18, 2014 at 19:46

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the response. It's a combi in the kitchen and we do have mains water there. 

Is there a simple way to check if shower has heating element? it is quite basic - there is no pump, it just comes out....

If upstairs is using laundry/shower, we're toast, so sure something wrong is happening... 

time for plumber?

Thanks again!

Jme

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on May 18, 2014 at 21:18

If the water flow through a combi boiler is too much reduced, the boiler may cut out for several seconds - at least ours does if I turn down the shower flow (or the kitchen hot tap) too far.

So if the upstairs flat runs a tap or shower or starts the washing machine, that may do the same thing to you, temporarily, even if, as likely, you and upstairs have completely separate water systems inside the house.

If there's only one mains water supply to the house it may not be sufficient to supply both flats at peak demand at the same time without significant pressure drop. 

Plumber with pressure gauge? Talk to upstairs??

Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on May 18, 2014 at 18:42

If it's not the bats in the groundfloor, it may be the owls in the loft. Both are known to be bringers of evil and ill luck.

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