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Colin Wilson
 
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I used to have a multipoint, and the old shower had a pressure
reducing valve on the cold feed - are valve-equipped flexible tails a
suitable replacement for restricting flow ?

(thinking of a tap/shower mixer instead of a seperate shower mixer)

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Default Flexible tap tails with valves

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Colin Wilson writes:
I used to have a multipoint, and the old shower had a pressure
reducing valve on the cold feed - are valve-equipped flexible tails a
suitable replacement for restricting flow ?


Well, a pressure reducing valve isn't just a flow restrictor.
You can get thermostatic shows designed for the differential
and varying pressures from a multipoint/combi,

(thinking of a tap/shower mixer instead of a seperate shower mixer)


but possibly not as part of a tap/shower mixer.

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Default Flexible tap tails with valves

Well, a pressure reducing valve isn't just a flow restrictor.
You can get thermostatic shows designed for the differential
and varying pressures from a multipoint/combi,


I`m not sure what the unit was exactly, a white plastic lump with what
appeared to be a diaphragm and an adjusting screw underneath. I don`t
even know if i`d need something like that in place to make it easier
to control shower temperature (the cold has a much greater flow rate,
so the ability to reduce flow might make it easier to control) - any
loss of cold water flow to the bath itself wouldn`t be an issue as far
as i`m concerned.

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