Shower and type of water system
 

Excuse the real lack of knowledge here!

I have an old Aqualisa Shower which, after, leaking into the back
unit, I have isolated the water flow to. It's been like for the past 6
months now, has a few other things wrong with it (outer bits crcaked
etc) and I am currently debating whether to have it repaired or
replace with a completely new shower (without spending a fortune as I
don't intend to stay in the house for too long!)

My water system is gravity fed. Can a normal electric shower or power
shower, say, like the ones readily available from Triton (T80si/Ivory
II as two examples), be installed easy, or do these usually run off
the mains water supply? I worried about buying one of these and then
finding out, it'll be a costly job to install.

I have a pump in the airing cupbord - WILO SALMSON PUMPS Class F? -
next to the water tank. Is this pump boosting the water flow to the
shower or doing some other totally unrelated job! I ask because I've
read how you can install shower booster pumps to increase the flow
rate.

I really would appreciate any advise (just starting out on the
Plumbing learning curve!!!). Thanks!

Shower and type of water system
 

On 22 Feb 2004 15:40:34 -0800, (Paul) wrote:

Excuse the real lack of knowledge here!

I have an old Aqualisa Shower which, after, leaking into the back
unit, I have isolated the water flow to. It's been like for the past 6
months now, has a few other things wrong with it (outer bits crcaked
etc) and I am currently debating whether to have it repaired or
replace with a completely new shower (without spending a fortune as I
don't intend to stay in the house for too long!)

You could do either. Aqualisa have a pretty good help line to their
service department, and you could easily cost the spares.


My water system is gravity fed. Can a normal electric shower or power
shower, say, like the ones readily available from Triton (T80si/Ivory
II as two examples), be installed easy, or do these usually run off
the mains water supply? I worried about buying one of these and then
finding out, it'll be a costly job to install.

Electric showers, in the sense of electrically heated will be
disappointing after what you have, and would require a separate 45A
circuit back to the consumer unit. Not worth doing.



I have a pump in the airing cupbord - WILO SALMSON PUMPS Class F? -
next to the water tank. Is this pump boosting the water flow to the
shower or doing some other totally unrelated job! I ask because I've
read how you can install shower booster pumps to increase the flow
rate.

I believe it;'s a shower pump. Does it come on when you turn on the
shower and do it's pipes go to the shower valve.



I really would appreciate any advise (just starting out on the
Plumbing learning curve!!!). Thanks!

Considering you plan to move on quite soon, I would look at repairing
the existing unit first, and if that is not economic, look at
replacing with an equivalent that can be fed from a pumped supply.

It probably isn't worth doing more than one or other of these.




..andy

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