Poor shower

Hugo Nebula · 2005-12-10T12:44:21+00:00

I've just moved into a new house, and I have a problem with theshower. It's a mixer shower in a cubicle gravity fed from the hotwater cylinder on the same floor, and the cold tank in the loft justabove. It produces not so much a shower as a dribble.My options as I see it are:1. Replace the mixer valve with a pumped shower. This would appear tobe the easiest option, as I would have thought it just requires anelectrical supply, the water inlets being already in place.2. Install a pump. This appears as though it will have to go in theairing cupboard, and I'm assuming will therefore need a new hot andcold feed to the shower valve, as well as the wiring.-Two questions here:a) can a pump be fitted in the loft above the height of the showerhead and the hot water tank? Most typical installations show thembeing fitted on a level with the hot water cylinder, but if it werefitted in the loft, I could presumably place it in the line of the hot& cold feeds, thereby reducing the amount of plumbing needed; andb) could I take a spur or loop from the immersion heater?3. Replace the existing vented cylinder with a Megaflo. A bit of anuclear option, I would have thought, but there was one in the rentedflat I've just moved from, and the shower there was almost toopowerful. There appears to be good mains pressure here. Is itfeasible to simply swap one cylinder for another and bypass the coldwater tank, or is there more to it than that?Any thoughts on the pros and cons of these options are welcome.

Poor shower

Dec 10, 2005 27 Replies

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Doctor Drivel 20 years ago

** snip rampant senility ***

A shame really.

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Doctor Drivel 20 years ago

What is he on about? He wants to run a power shower pump with an electric drill.

** snip rampant senility **

Sad isn't it.

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John Rumm 20 years ago

I fitted one of these for someone recently:

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a nice job and very quiet in operation. It gave a respectable shower without being into the "skin you alive" sort of performance.

Something like:

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give more force if you like it that way without getting into silly money.

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Roger 20 years ago

The message from "Doctor Drivel" contains these words:

Don't be put off a venturi shower just because Dribble recommended it. You do need to avoid the cheap rubbish though.

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Doctor Drivel 20 years ago

"Roger" wrote Rogerness in message news: snipped-for-privacy@nospam.zetnet.co.uk...

Roger, sensible people will take notice of what I wrote. Roger, you have never seen a venturi shower.

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Tournifreak 20 years ago

Just a thought - it's not just an airlock in the feed pipework is it? Reason I ask is 'cause that's exactly the problem I have with my new shower/bath/toilet. Will try to fix by attaching cold bath tap to hosepipe tonight.

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Roger 20 years ago

The message from "Doctor Drivel" contains these words:

You really are a stupid bugger Dribble. You have no way of knowing whether or not I have seen one. In fact I installed one for my sister last year and when I get round tuit I will put one in for myself.

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Doctor Drivel 20 years ago

"Roger" wrote overt and shameles Rogerness in message news: snipped-for-privacy@nospam.zetnet.co.uk...

Roger, you have never seen a venturi shower.

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