Shower plumbing advice please

Hi, bought a jacuzzi shower bath of ebay. Has an L-shaped shower panel which has a thermostatic shower and extra body jets. I have three questions about plumbing it in to a bathroom I'm building between two bedrooms please.

  1. It came with a large 3-bar shower pump but I would like to avoid using this if possible because of wasted water and pump noise. I have 2.5m from the top of the cold cistern to the shower head and about 4m to the bottom of the hot tank- not plumbed in yet so can't measure actual pressure - will this be enough (I'm not too concerned if body jets, which can be turned off, don't work properly)?

  1. Also, there are two inlets to the shower thermostatic valve - hot and cold. These go to the body jets and shower head. There is an additional hot flexible pipe from the thermostatic valve. Does this go to the bath mixer tap (it's the only place I can see to connect it and it is not mentioned in the instructions)?

  2. Would it be ok to run a hot supply directly to the bath mixer tap (in case I need to use the pump for the shower).

Thank you

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nafuk
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Distance to the hot cylinder is not relevent here, just the height difference between the water level in the cold cistern and the shower head.

So you will get less than 0.25 bar pressure at the shower - which is on the poor side of feeble.

I would count on using the pump if I were you.

That does not quite make sense. I would expect hot and cold inlets, and then outlets to shower head and body jets.

This could be a water feed to the jacuzzi section - some systems (especially those that pump air through the water) allow the injection of warm water to maintain the temperature of the bath, and also to eliminate any "chill" sensation from the air. Can you not find any more details on the makers web site?

You could, but check the taps are suitable for low presssure operation. I would be more inclinded to feed the bath taps from the pumped supply as well.

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John Rumm

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