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Hello, Fergus.
How nice to see you on this website.

Here' sthe problem with my shower:

It's a Triton T90si.
It's about 8 years old and the other night I switched it on and the water was cold.
Freezing cold!

It was fine earlier in the day and it just happened all of a sudden.
Live in a hard water area (the kind of water that walks around with a cigarette dangling from its lips, a shaved head and tattoos all down its arms) so it could be something to do with lime messing up the heating element.

Bit of black dusty stuff on the inside of the casing which is normal enough crap to come out of the motor as it does it's motory thing.

It's a weekend and I won't be able to get a plumber.
Not to pull, I mean to work on it.
Anwyay's I don't trust plumbers. The last one that came tried to sell me a DVD.
The chancer!

I know you're a carpenter type (just like the baby Jesus) but it's all the same innit?
Innit?
Eh?

Well? Isn't it?

There are quite a few posts on the forum about Triton showers running hot and cold, but mine runs cold all the time.

I have a Triton T90si, which is a tank fed shower, so it has regular water pressure. Its about7 years old, but isn't used every day.

The pump appears to be fine, in that the water pressure is the same as always.

I do live in a hard water area, but we have a well and our water is treated with salt. We never get limescale on our kettle, so I can't imagine its the element that has clogged up.

Can anyone recommend a course of trouble shooting steps?

If its something to do with the thermal cutout switch, does this part have to be replaced, or can it be reset?

The only other thing I can think of is that the problem started in January during the cold snap, but I can't imagine that anything would have frozen *inside* the house.


I think I've sorted this.

This is a filter between the inlet pipe and the pump in the T90si.

I unscrewed this (you can do this, it won't let out any water) and cleaned it out.

When I turned the shower on again, the made a few wheezes and belches, but the hot water returned.





I copied and pasted this from a forum, it sounds like the same problem.... iF YOU DO FLOOD THE HOUSE DON'T BLAME ME, BLAME THE OTHER FORUM USER.


If it doesn't help, call an electrician not a plumber, a plumber will make a big fucking deal out of a simple job and you'll end up paying out more money than if you went and a bought a brand new solid gold shower unit with a platinum shower head.

The water is still running so the problem is most likely electrical so no need for plumbers.

That's good news at least.

Let me know how you get on.... Remember, no plumbers.

I'll try that, Fergus, thanks.

I'm leaving the little filter to de-scale in a cup of vinegar at the moment but I'll fiddle with it as soon as I become disconnected from the computer and rejoin the so-called real world.

If it was a simple as twiddling a knob (ooer!) then I'll be very happy.
I don't want them plumbers or electricians around at all.
They'll just rob me blind.
Take everything from my piggy bank.
The hyena's of the fixing stuff trade, they are.


I'll keep you updated on this exciting news story.

Can I have a quick word, seeing as I am not-so-secretly both of you?

Of course.
But make it quick. I have to fiddle with the shower in a minute or two.

Oh sorry. I delayed by some 44 minutes. Am I too late? Have you gone?

It's ok, I'm back now.

What would you like to say?


Rapid? Speedy? Fleet?... All quick words.

The title of this thread is:

The Shower Thread where Fergus can Discuss Showers with Jesus Budda

Fergus, please do not discuss your showers with JB. The rest of us do not want to hear about this (and I'm sure that I speak for all of the other writers when I say that).

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Quote: Jalapenoman

The title of this thread is:

The Shower Thread where Fergus can Discuss Showers with Jesus Budda

Fergus, please do not discuss your showers with JB. The rest of us do not want to hear about this (and I'm sure that I speak for all of the other writers when I say that).

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How can you be sure? Are you omnipotent?
All knowing? Fantastic? Wonderful?? Lovely? Devilishly handsome, windswept and interesting?


No. You are not!!


That would be me, me and me.

Fergus,

You're Dad asked me to talk with you about this and told you to keep your and JB's showering together out of the forums. He told me that all of the other writers don't want to hear about two men in the shower (except maybe SFO).

I'm just doing what the boss said.

He can't talk to you himslef today because he's curing a plague in Africa or something.

Rubbish!

It's Sunday, he never does anything on a Sunday, never has.

You should know that.

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Quote: Fergus McCarthy

Rubbish!

It's Sunday, he never does anything on a Sunday, never has.

You should know that.

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He said that this was an "ox in the mire" thing. He also wanted to get it done before watching the Cowboys play the Bears this afternoon.

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Quote: Jalapenoman


He said that this was an "ox in the mire" thing. He also wanted to get it done before watching the Cowboys play the Bears this afternoon.

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Enough of this gay talk..... I have scaffolding to erect.

Hey JMan, do you have an ad for taps (faucets) at the top of this thread?

I do, they look great.

Right now, I have an add for portable shower cabanas featuring women in bikinis. They are more impressive than the faucets.

Now its water softeners, with a picture of two scabby little things called "scale" and "scum"- so discuss away-with illustrations. No imagination needed.
JB; you can be "scum" OK?

The advert at the top of mine is for Citibank.
It invites you to "Discover the easiset way to transfer funds to India"

Why would anyone want to do that? How has that advert come to appear at the top of my screen on a website like TheSpoof.com?

Are there masses of Indians here on The Spoof? Indian sympathisers, perhaps? Red Indians? Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo- yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I love those battlecries! You know, those films always portrayed the Indians as 'the baddies', but I've been reading Brown's Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, and I think we need to talk about it, don't you, Americans?

They'll let you publish any old shite there.

It's really successful.

And shite.

Regards

Skooooooooooooooob not an Indian, Skooooooooooooooooooob not a bigot. Skooooooooooooooooooooooooob

Just Skoob.

Love and adjustable spanners.

I think JB is giving old Fergy a "Golden Shower" a lá Zappa's Bobby Brown but not in a Gay Way!

"Stardoll: 40 Million girls can't be wrong"

What the fuck is that ad about?
Eh?
Eh????


Now I've got some organic farming thing.

Fuck that shit.

Fergus, you little toad, I tried what you found on a website and guess what?
It didn't fucking work.
Ya know why?
Well, I'll tells ya, baby: becasue I had done the fucking thing before. Thrice!
Thrice!
Thats 3 times, sugarbaby.

I phoned the big boys today at Triton. They're sending me a smurf to fix the fucking shower tomorrow, they say.
What's the odds I'll still be showerless this time tomorrow?

Carina, you fucking asshole bitch.
I like you and always have. I just have a weird way of expressing it.

I don't want "1 tip to a flat belly". I want many tips. All involving doing nothing and eating tea and biscuits, thank you very much.

Jalapenoman, Jaggedone and the Monkey: I hope you enjoy showering together.
Because I can't.
It's been several days now since I have felt the warm embrace of hot, steamy water trickling across my naked body and tingling my wobbly bits.

It's a mop and bucket again tonight.

I almost missed you there, Skoob. I hope you like showering becasue I CAN'T.

So there.

Enjoy your bubble bath, matey.


Did I forget anyone else?

Ah, that's really touching JB

Sorry to hear about your shower.

I told the wife about your predicament, and she made a suggestion.

You will need a bathtub, two buckets - one of which must be a galvanised steel bucket, a sponge, some soap and some hot water.

To start with, overturn the galvanised steel bucket and place it in the bathtub. Fill the other bucket with hot water. Sit on the upturned steel bucket, then soak the sponge in the hot water, wring it out above your head and add soap to taste.

That's what she said anyway.

Regards

Skoob.

Fergus & Monkey in the New Irish Spring Soap on a Rope Commercial....

whooooops, somebody dropped something...your move....

I was just thinking of your wife right now, Skoob.

Not naked, mind.

She was wearing a slinky white silk bathrobe and a big smile.
I told her to lose the big smile because it was off-putting, so she kindly replaced it with one of the smaller variety.
Which was nice of her.

If I could get my hands on some buckets and a bathtub and this mysterious 'sponge' object you speak of then I'd be laughing.
But I can't.
Its the mop again, I'm afraid.

As I'm sure you can fully understand, Its my bottom taht I fear the most for.
You try scrubbing that in the bathroom sink and see how much you enjoy that.

It's not nice.


Or fair.

If I was a religious man I'd pray to some big fella with a long beard.
But Crazy Dave wouldn't like me calling round to his shed and chanting. Again.


It's only when you don't have something that you miss it.
Water.
Electricity.
Electric Triton shower with 10-heat settings and a nice spray hose.
Magic beans.

I suppose this is what it will be like come the Apocalypse.
Well, maybe not as bad.

It's training.

I said 'Training', not raining. Put that umbrella down. It's unlucky to open that thing indoors, don't ya know.

JB's bubbling under again