Shower pump - fix or replace?

[RunningAround]

Hi folks

We have a Stuart Turner Showermate eco 2 bar Twin Pump 46500 - was fitted back in 2018.
All been fine until a week ago when it wouldn't turn itself off after a shower.

Only way I could get it to stop was turning off power at the RCD in the airing cupboard.

 

Since then - it won't do anything (I've changed the fuse in the RCD just in case).

Is it worth getting someone to try and fix? Or, given the original cost was 145+fitting, better to bite the bullet and order a new one?
thanks! 

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, RunningAround said:

Hi folks

We have a Stuart Turner Showermate eco 2 bar Twin Pump 46500 - was fitted back in 2018.
All been fine until a week ago when it wouldn't turn itself off after a shower.

Only way I could get it to stop was turning off power at the RCD in the airing cupboard.

 

Since then - it won't do anything (I've changed the fuse in the RCD just in case).

Is it worth getting someone to try and fix? Or, given the original cost was 145+fitting, better to bite the bullet and order a new one?
thanks! 

You could try to strip it down and clean the flow switch(es), see if YT has a video on how-to, but these things just don't last forever. Defo sounds like a flow switch issue, so if that turns out to be a serviceable / replaceable part and it's cheap, then you may as well go for a fix (but that's on the proviso that the pump runs quietly and doesn't sound like it is dying elsewhere too).

[sharpener]

On 15/03/2025 at 21:08, Nickfromwales said:

Defo sounds like a flow switch issue, so if that turns out to be a serviceable / replaceable part and it's cheap, then you may as well go for a fix

 

Don't hold your breath getting a replacement switch from ST. They told me my jet pump was not field repairable so did not stock any spares for it. Eventually found a shaft gland for it on ebay.