The most common faults with mixer showers are: Intermittently running hot and cold. From our experience, this occurs mostly on combination boiler setups. The usual suspects for this problem are a blocked shower head, kinked or damaged shower hose, or blocked inlet filters in the shower itself. It could also be due to faulty non-return valves.

Likely to be a faulty solenoid on the flow valve. Our advice however would be to replace the complete flow valve which comes complete with the solenoid valve. There is the same ammount of work to replace the solenoid as there is to replace the flow valve and the flow valve is a known fault.

Any mixing valve can allow a cross-over to occur should they become defective. A defective mixing valve will allow a cross-over of hot and cold water, even though there are no visible signs of trouble or leak. A plumbing cross-over can cause a complaint such as ‘water not hot enough’.

The solenoid coil is located at the bottom of the unit, not accessible due to the plastic casing – you’ll need to remove a few of the torque screws with a T10 piece.

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In case you didn’t know, the shower diverter gate is a plumbing term that is describing the valve which you use when you want to change the water flow from the faucet to the shower. Now, as we can see, the diverter gate is actually quite an important part of the bathtub faucet.

For the first step, you will need to make sure that everything is in its place. Now, you will work with little parts such as rubber washer when it comes to this kind of repair, and you will want to be sure that nothing gets lost or misplaced. So, take the old piece of cloth or a towel and put it over the drain hole.