Advice Needed Please -- Thermostatic bath shower mixer tap

inkypinky999

Hi,

I want to replace our existing bath mixer tap (there is no shower installed in bath) and install a thermostatic bath shower mixer tap. I am after bar shaped thermostatic shower mixers which have a tap to fill the bath as well as shower hose & head with rail for shower.

Found one example

http://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/Reef-Thermostatic-Bath-Shower-Mixer_p_961.html

What do friends here recommend!!!.

Many thanks in advance

andyhop

http://www.hansgrohe.co.uk/uk_en/110408_32313538315F32355F3631363733.htm

One of the best on market for price and quality

Approx £210

Can be fitted with pillar elbows for bath deck fixing

ormus

toolstation do one for under 40 quid.

inkypinky999

andyhop wrote: »

http://www.hansgrohe.co.uk/uk_en/110408_32313538315F32355F3631363733.htm

One of the best on market for price and quality

Approx £210

Can be fitted with pillar elbows for bath deck fixing

Thanks Andy 210£ is quite outside my budget i was looking for something under 150 but good quality.

sillygoose

It depends on what source your hot water comes from, thats to say what the pressure is like.

I have one quite similiar to the one in your link as a secondary shower in a family bathroom, mine came from wickes (on clearance now discontin.) My hot water comes from a typical central heating coil heated storage tank, the pressure coming from a header tank in the loft. The bathroom is upstairs. Fortunately the tank in the loft is high enough to give 'just' about usable pressure with one of these taps... just! Any thermostatic mixer can only work by reducing flow to regulate it so be aware the shower will be less powerful than before, it can take a lifetime then to fill a bath. Generally its not the cold flow, its the hot that is the problem.

If your hot water comes from a decent power combi boiler with good pressure you may get a much better result from a thermo mixer.

In our case it does work but isn't exactly powerful by any stretch of the imagination, a bath takes a long time to run. It is very reliable though and stays at the right temp. very well, it protects the kids from scalding and fills the bath with water at just the right temp. I guess I may add an electric booster pump some day. The alternative to regulate a shower with a manual mixer is a nightmare though!

Canucklehead

inkypinky999 wrote: »

Hi,

I want to replace our existing bath mixer tap (there is no shower installed in bath) and install a thermostatic bath shower mixer tap. I am after bar shaped thermostatic shower mixers which have a tap to fill the bath as well as shower hose & head with rail for shower.

Found one example

http://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/Reef-Thermostatic-Bath-Shower-Mixer_p_961.html

What do friends here recommend!!!.

Many thanks in advance

Good morning: I'd avoid the Reef. Take a look at the Aqualisa Midas (3 versions all with 5 year warranty...high pressure DHW...the 300 has a low pressure version)

HTH

Canucklehead

StuHolmes

We fitted a Hansgrohe one in our old house. Not the one linked above, think we paid just over £100, but that was a bargain price. It was fantastic quality.

StuHolmes

StuHolmes wrote: »

We fitted a Hansgrohe one in our old house. Not the one linked above, think we paid just over £100, but that was a bargain price. It was fantastic quality.

Actually, I think it was Grohe (Grohtherm) not Hansgrohe. Not the same company apparently.

inkypinky999

StuHolmes wrote: »

Actually, I think it was Grohe (Grohtherm) not Hansgrohe. Not the same company apparently.

cheers StuHolmes, do you have the link?

On the other hand i need a 180mm most of the bar ones i am founding are 150 mm

[sillygoose] my current bath is through combi boiler, pressure is pretty nice in the current mixer, so hopefully the thermostatic should be ok.

decisions decisions decisions...!

andyhop

inkypinky999 wrote: »

cheers StuHolmes, do you have the link?

On the other hand i need a 180mm most of the bar ones i am founding are 150 mm

[sillygoose] my current bath is through combi boiler, pressure is pretty nice in the current mixer, so hopefully the thermostatic should be ok.

decisions decisions decisions...!

150mm is the size for wall mounting

If your fitting directly to the bath then the pillar elbows you need to buy act as 30mm spacers

inkypinky999

I have decided to go for this one.

http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/aqualisa-midas-100-2624-20151

before I push "Buy" can someone give a review

many thanks in advance