What type of showers do I have?

Monkey_Joe

Hello Everyone,

Recently moved into a house: there is no gas and central heating. All electric where heating is supplied by storage heaters and hot water is supplied by a boiler in the attic. I use Eco7 to heat up the water in the boiler overnight.


The showers in my bathroom are crap - the pressure of the water coming out is awfull. Im better of sticking my head under the tap and I would get a better shower!

Can someone tell me the type of showers I have:

I assume the one below is the mixer shower. Im 6'1 so when I pull the shower head up to my height the pressure gets less.



The one below Im not sure about. Its on the opposite end of the mixer shower, I assume it never worked but when I tested it it did. The power of the water coming out is a bit better then the other one. Hot and Cold water can be controled by rotating the nob below the head. What type of shower is it? Is it possible to replace the head, since the one currently is covered in limescale so the power could improve with a new head.



My plan is to fit an electric shower but now Im considering buying a pump to increase the pressure. The one that I looked at is sold at B&Q - Wasp 50 1.5 bar centrifugal shower pump.

ormus

mystic meg is off today.

Monkey_Joe

ormus wrote: »

mystic meg is off today.

sorry. I have figured out how to upload the pics

liam8282

The first one is a mixer shower, the pressure of the shower will only be about as good as the pressure of your water.

It looks like it has had a replacement head, so maybe if you tried a different shower head it might be a bit better?

If the second shower is only connected via the water, ie not an electric shower, then I would imagine that is just a different type of built in mixer shower.


Just my thoughts, I am no plumber!

Monkey_Joe

liam8282 wrote: »

The first one is a mixer shower, the pressure of the shower will only be about as good as the pressure of your water.

It looks like it has had a replacement head, so maybe if you tried a different shower head it might be a bit better?

If the second shower is only connected via the water, ie not an electric shower, then I would imagine that is just a different type of built in mixer shower.


Just my thoughts, I am no plumber!

Hi, the new head for the first one I added. It improved the amount of water coming out so that I could have a semi-ok shower but its not great. The second one I have no clue where the water is coming from. I remember testing it when all my hoter water finnished and it was still able to produce hot water. It cannot be electric since there is no switch nearby - usually they have a switch right?

ormus

first one is a bath tap/shower mixer assembly.
the second one is a mira shower mixer valve.

Monkey_Joe

ormus wrote: »

first one is a bath tap/shower mixer assembly.
the second one is a mira shower mixer valve.

how does the Mira shower mixa valve work?

keystone

Hi Monks

The answer actually lies in your first (now of three) threads today. Where is the Cold Water Tank that feeds the HW Cylinder (its NOT a boiler) and provides the cold supplies to your taps and showers?

I said this morning (your first thread) that the pressure would drop as you lift the shower head up and you have confirmed that - thank you.

If the shower head needs descaling that wil affect the flow rate from the shower. It will not change the pressure at any particular height.

The supplies for the Mira will be exactly the same as the BSM on the bath I'm guessing and its method of operation won't be that different except it will have a thermostatic cartridge to regulate the temperature which the BSM does not.

As long as you do not use both at once then you can pump the supplies to increase the pressure but note that both the hot and cold supplies for both showers need to be separate from other drawoffs (eg kitchen taps)

So I would suggest again that your simple solution is to pump the supplies. Note that if the capacity of the cold swater storage tank is less than 50 gallons you should get it upfraded to at least that size.

You should get a plumber in to advice you and give you a quote for the options - no get three independently from on another then you can compare like with like.

There is a danger of going round in circles otherwise - particularly if you raise a new thread for each question. Try and keep it all on one single thread huh? (Hint, Hint)

Cheers

27col

The Mira uses a supply of hot and cold water from a storage tank and is gravity fed. The two supplies of water are mixed in the valve control. This is not much different to the arrangement of the handset over the bath. Except that in the handset you adjust the mix yourself using the bath taps. Unless there is a good head of water, there will not be a great flow. It is possible to increase the flow using a booster pump. If you go down this route, bear mind, that you only have one tankful of hot water and no way of replacing it until the Economy 7 kicks in.

Monkey_Joe

Im now thinking of an electric shower with a integral pump!

cubegame

Look for a Trevi Boost Venturi shower. Should work great with your setup and avoid messing around with expensive electic showers and noisy pumps.