Get your water tested at a reputable laboratory. This should not cost you more than about €100. When you get the results show them to a reputable water treatment contractor and get quotes for treatment.
Hardness in the water can cause problems as can high levels of Iron/Manganese.
Hoopman
I can't explain why it would happen all of a sudden but if you are getting lime in your kettle then it is probably limescale sediment affecting shower also.
I recommend getting a water softener installed on the house supply. It will make all your appliances - kettle wash mach dish washer elec showers last longer and also your imersion heater will be more efficient and it and the hot tank will last longer.
Good luck
The water comes direct from the main feed into the shower. It actually comes from a T joint on the mains feed that goes up to the tank.You might need to clean out your water tank?
Came across a case with a shower that was completely blocked up with fine sand and I mean completely. The only differance was the shower was fed from a storage tank, which ofcourse was fed from the mains. Had a look in the tank and it had a lot of white/yellow fine sand in t, I had to clear it all out. Put it down too a lot of rain as was said here earlier. but too be honest, don't know for sure.
Thanks Davy, but i'm a bit confused about the filter highlighted.You could go for a lever valve and connect the first filter here
Thanks Davy, but i'm a bit confused about the filter highlighted.
Its Length is 10 inches and Width 2.5 inches ,
so would I be right in saying that what i do is introduce a levervalve on the feed pipe and then above the lever valve cut out a 10 inch section of the copper pipe and join this filter pipe to the main feed pipe.
Sorry, they are cartridges for filter units! You are looking for a small filter that goes directly on service pipe. There would not be too common in domestic plumbing but should be common enough in commercial/indtrustrail to protect machinery ect form damage. I will try and post a link here if I find one.
Had you something like this in mind: For that price you can't go wrong.
yes, it can be unscrewed from the top and it pulls out to be cleaned. You will need an isolation valve before the valve. If you go for the half inch one, you will need two 1/2inch 311 (male threaded fitting to screw into either side of filter) these will enable you to connect to copper by means of compression. A roll of P.T.F.E tape will be needed also to dress threads on 311 before you screw them in to filter body.
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