On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:36:47 GMT, Speedy Jim wrote:

wrote:
The house I just bought and moved into has a fancy 6-head shower setup
in the master bath. But the water pressure seems completely
insufficient to the task of running more than one head at a time... if
I try to run more, they essentially dribble. I presume that the water
pressure and volume throughput from the well is simply too low. Is
there a product that might help? I was thinking of something along the
lines of a holding tank that could be pressurized and provide the
flowrate needed.

Clearly this is something of a lark, since who really needs a
carwash-like setup for people... it is just a matter of having a
useless bunch of showerheads irking me.

Regards, Teo


Before you get too wound up, read the pressure gauge
while someone uses the shower. Normal range would be
something like 20-40 psi, or 30-50 psi (very round numbers).



It depends.
If it's a shower, you probably want hot water.
That means that a pressure-tank would need to
be BEFORE the water heater, otherwise, you'll
fill the pressure tank with hot water, and it
will then cool in that tank all day, and at night,
you can take a nice cool six-head shower that
turns warm just about when the pressure finally
drops to zero...

You need sufficient pipe-diameter from the pressure
tank, through the heater(s) and to the shower-heads.