Shower and type of water system

Feb 22, 2004 1 Replies

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!


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

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 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.

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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