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Problem with mira elite

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  • 04-04-2008 4:39pm
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    The Waxbill
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    I've recently installed a mira elite electric shower into a new house. it's a nightmare. it's either scalding hot or freezing cold. if you try and adjust the water temp slightly down, after around 2 or 3 mins it goes ice cold, if you try turn it slightly up it goes scalding hot. also the low flow light comes on every now and then. any ideas?


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    The Waxbill wrote: »
    I've recently installed a mira elite electric shower into a new house. it's a nightmare. it's either scalding hot or freezing cold. if you try and adjust the water temp slightly down, after around 2 or 3 mins it goes ice cold, if you try turn it slightly up it goes scalding hot. also the low flow light comes on every now and then. any ideas?

    It could well be the water pressure feeding the shower...

    I've never taken a mira elite apart, but if its like the Mira sport water pressure can play a massive part in the correct operation of the shower... Again if its like the mira sport the temperature of the water is varied by changing its flow rate, eg reduce flow rate increase temp, or increase flow rate decrease temp.

    As the shower is new i doubt your input filter is blocked...

    What was is the shower plumbed in? what other things are fed from the same supply? did it ever work correctly?


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    The Waxbill
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭The Waxbill


    Sorry, it's a mira sprint, not an elite (don't know what i was thinking lol). it's the one without an integral pump and it's mains fed. it could be a water pressure problem but how do i check the water pressure. the toilets and sinks in the bathroom are tank fed? bathroom is upstairs, water pressure seems ok downstairs.


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    The Waxbill wrote: »
    Sorry, it's a mira sprint, not an elite (don't know what i was thinking lol). it's the one without an integral pump and it's mains fed. it could be a water pressure problem but how do i check the water pressure. the toilets and sinks in the bathroom are tank fed? bathroom is upstairs, water pressure seems ok downstairs.

    You'll need to find out what's feeding the shower... if it doesn't have the integral pump i'm guessing its mains fed.

    If it is mains feed, what's your mains pressure like? is your mains shut off valve open all the way?? does the shower work fine until someone turns on the tap in the kitchen?? or does it work fine till the tank in the attic starts to fill?

    I fixed a mira sport a few weeks ago for my brother. The symptoms were similar to yours, the input filter was blocked. I doubt your input filter is blocked as your shower is only new... but it sounds like yours could be low water pressure.


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