On 16 May 2007 17:58:58 +0100
Robert Inder wrote:


OK, so you lot of put me off "plan A", which was a
tidied-out-of-the-way electric shower.

SO I'm looking at Plan B, using water from the hot tank.

But I've got a problem. (Well, you knew that, didn't you, or I
wouldn't be posting he-)

The room we're turning into a bathroom has a hot water feed from the
hot tank, with about a 3 metre head.

BUT it only has mains pressure cold. It will be very awkward to get a
tank cold feed down into the basement. There is a tiled kitchen floor
in the way.

All the mixer showers I have looked at expect roughly even
pressure on hot and cold. So it looks like we might be forced back to
an electric, because it will run of mains alone.

Is there anything else I can do?

Is there any kind of pressure-reducing device I could use? And don't
say "half closed stop cock"...

Or would it work to use a plain mixer shower, but with some kind of
stand-alone pump on the hot side only?

Thoughts? Suggestions?


Pressure equalising valve: Part Number 16711 at http://www.bes.co.uk.
Just what you need.

R.