The pressure on my shower is awful. Pls help

I had a pump installed to my bathroom upstairs and though it is extremely loud, the pressure in that bathroom is fine. But the shower room in the middle floor has extremely poor pressure. I dont want to install another pump, as I cant bear the thought of 2 loud pumps at the same time. Are there any other ways I can increase the water pressure?

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butterfly
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:23:36 +0100 someone who may be butterfly wrote this:-

Some pumps can supply more than one shower. Without knowing more about your plumbing and the pump it is difficult to say more.

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David Hansen

I would think any pump could

NT

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meow2222

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:00:53 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be snipped-for-privacy@care2.com wrote this:-

The last time I looked at them, only in the Screwfix catalogue, one or two of the cheapest ones were not marked as being suitable for supplying more than one shower, the others were.

Of course one could connect a pump to two (or twenty) showers and some water would come out of the showers, so to be pedantic I should have added a little more to what I typed.

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David Hansen

Our cheapo Showerforce pump (1.5 bar?) supplies three showers & all the HW taps in the house. Of course, not all those are in use at the same time but it does do a reasonable job of powering two showers at once. Not brilliant but certainly adequate. I reckon they don't come much weedier than my pump and if it can manage two showers, almost any pump will manage that.

The problem with cheaper pumps tends to be that they're not rated to run continuously for very long which means that their thermal cut out may come into play if you have teenagers determined to suck your hot water tank dry.

Tim

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Tim Downie

I assume you have checked the shower head and hose for blockages. Sounds like the middle shower room has a high pressure mixer shower installed. Is the bathroom with the pump fitted on a higher floor than the shower room? If your hot water system is a gravity fed hot water cylinder (which it must be if you have a pump installed) You need to fit a low pressure mixer shower. Or there may be flow restrictors fitted the the mixer valve. Best but not cheapest option would be to fit an unvented hot water cylinder and throw the pump out.

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topper

Clearly thats not what determines whether they can do the job or not.

Its a standard sales tactic to give less info on the cheapest products.

2 showers work on a 22mm supply with no pump, so how do you think they'll work with a 22mm bore pump in the supply line: with more water flow or less?

NT

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meow2222

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:27:11 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be snipped-for-privacy@care2.com wrote this:-

Nice try. However how well they work depends on many factors including pipe layout and what those doing the showering consider an acceptable shower. The same is true if there is a pump.

You can continue to make a fool of yourself by twisting what I type for as long as you like, but you will still only be making a fool of yourself.

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David Hansen

Never heard this idea before. Can you expand on it with examples? Are you talking online, paper catalogues, flyers, cut sheets? Do sales assistants deliberately employ this as a tactic? Is it just a high street/consumer thing or does it go on in a B2B envronment as well?

Ta.

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Dave Osborne

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