Primatic Cylinders?

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

Mark

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

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

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

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!

That's a Fortic, not a Primatic.

Oops!

Bugger!

Beat me to it!

:((

(Sulks)