Jon5
New Member
Hi everyone,
Really need your help to fix the issue. Driving me crazy.
I am living in a 4-plex down stair unit with a closed loop hot water circulation system. This hot water system in placed in utility room (near garage) away from the living area. The water is shared among 4 units. The water is from the city.
Out of all the hot water fixtures of the 4 units, only this particular hot shower have sediment/fixture has issue.
For sometimes now, I have been getting clogged shower head with mineral deposit/sediments as shown in picture #1 & #2. When running cold water, there's no issue. However, when I run hot water, it will quickly get clogged up. About 4-5 month ago, I have asked someone to flush out the hot water heater and it got better for about 1-2months. Then it gets clogged up again very quickly. Today, I've flush up the hot water from the shower head out by letting it run for 10min. Then I've use a tshirt to see how much it can catch up. Within a few minutes, the stuff are there again as shown in picture #3 & 4.
One thing is that I notice that the return pump is into the drain valve of the water heater. For this particular water heater model, the drain valve is at the hot side of the water. Can the hot water return cause agitation and cause more sediment from water heater (if they are from water heater) to circulate back to the line? But it still doesn't explain to me why only this particular shower head has issue. Help!
Just wondering if someone who's an expect here can help see what kind of issue I have?
Does it have anything to do with this shower head is at some physical location of the line?
Is issue with the city water?
Is it water heater issue?
Thank you for your time.
Really need your help to fix the issue. Driving me crazy.
I am living in a 4-plex down stair unit with a closed loop hot water circulation system. This hot water system in placed in utility room (near garage) away from the living area. The water is shared among 4 units. The water is from the city.
Out of all the hot water fixtures of the 4 units, only this particular hot shower have sediment/fixture has issue.
For sometimes now, I have been getting clogged shower head with mineral deposit/sediments as shown in picture #1 & #2. When running cold water, there's no issue. However, when I run hot water, it will quickly get clogged up. About 4-5 month ago, I have asked someone to flush out the hot water heater and it got better for about 1-2months. Then it gets clogged up again very quickly. Today, I've flush up the hot water from the shower head out by letting it run for 10min. Then I've use a tshirt to see how much it can catch up. Within a few minutes, the stuff are there again as shown in picture #3 & 4.
One thing is that I notice that the return pump is into the drain valve of the water heater. For this particular water heater model, the drain valve is at the hot side of the water. Can the hot water return cause agitation and cause more sediment from water heater (if they are from water heater) to circulate back to the line? But it still doesn't explain to me why only this particular shower head has issue. Help!
Just wondering if someone who's an expect here can help see what kind of issue I have?
Does it have anything to do with this shower head is at some physical location of the line?
Is issue with the city water?
Is it water heater issue?
Thank you for your time.