Primatic Cylinders?

[bruceyboy]

As A Plumber I Was Wondering If You Can Fit A Power Shower To

A Primatic Cylinder???

-- bruceyboy

[Mark]

I don't see why not. However Primatic cylinders are the spawn of the devil. I recommend replacing it immediately.

Mark

[adder1969]

Depends what he means by power shower I guess. ...but surely it's a wind up.

[Heliotrope Smith]

I understand that they make electric ones now. No spring to bust in the middle of your shower.

[Andy Hall]

As a plumber..... you should know.

[Roger Mills]

Indeed! If he was a plumber worth his salt, he'd know what the issues are.

If he's talking about the type the cylinder which has a smallish integral header tank, it wouldn't work very well. A power shower usually requires the cold feed to be taken from the same header tank as feeds the hot cylinder - but at a *lower* level than the cold feed to the hot cylinder - so that if the header tank empties, the shower runs cold rather than full hot. This would be virtually impossible to achieve with an integral header tank and - with a powerful shower pump - the header would empty very quickly. Add to that the difficulty (impossibility?) of fitting a Surrey or Essex flange to a primatic (to stop the pump sucking air from the vent pipe), and you have a recipe for disaster!

[John Stumbles]

That's a Fortic, not a Primatic.

[Roger Mills]

Oops!

[EricP]

Bugger!

Beat me to it!

:((

(Sulks)