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Howard
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konastab01
@Dammit
Boiler/shower:
The shower head is fed from a diverter valve that is part of the bath taps, you pull the collar up to send water to the shower head and then adjust the taps to the correct temperature for your shower.
The boiler is a combi, which has been running non-stop to try to keep the cold at bay.
The situation: both the shower and the hot tap in the kitchen exhibit the same behaviour - turn the hot tap fully on and it will swiftly produce steaming water, then the water becomes freezing cold, then steaming hot, then steaming cold, then settles down to being hot.
This is kind of annoying in a doing the dishes scenario, but manageable. In a "I have to catch a train shortly" sense standing there waiting for the shower to stop it's hot/cold/hot/cold cycle is frustrating, but not as frustrating as standing in the bath with your eyes shut as your face is covered in soap, poking a foot into the water coming from the shower head to establish if it's gone back to being warm again.
It's got a new wrinkle over the past two days - once it's past it's hot/cold/hot/cold behaviour it's now very hard to get it to a temperature that humans appreciate - it's either scalding hot or tepid, and the Eddie Izzard safe cracker sketch applies here. However! As you try to dial in the fraction of a degree required on the cold tap you can see the shower hose jerking as the pressure fluctuates quite significantly, and the temperature drifts down over time as well, so you have to repeatedly crack the safe.
All of this turns a five minute shower into a 15 minute shower, much of which is spent observing the shower closely whilst trying to get into it without horrifying pain/debilitating coldness resulting.
What do please?