info on low pressure with shower

jockettuk

hi friend moved into a housing association 2 bedroom house.. the shower is part of the bathroom fittings so to speak but as one neighbour put it you can Pee quicker than the water coming out.. its from the hot water system in the house

the association say its the pressure nothing they can do.. but these houses only about 7 years old and in a brand new estate..

is there anything that can be done that she can do to help as the shower next to useless..

thanks

keystone

You have to describe the system in some detail to permit a remote diagnosis. In any event if its an HA property then you have to get them to address it. So far they have just dismissed it as "too difficult" by all accounts. Make a noise until they DO address it.

Cheers

SuzieSue

I had a new shower installed which also runs from the hot water system and the pressure was very disappointing. The plumber said that the only thing we could do was to install a pump which I wasn't happy about because of the expense and on-going electricity costs. So I looked on the internet for a low pressure showhead and came across this one: Grohe Euphoria

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=&q=grohe+euphoria&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB299GB299&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=17546801478081175992&sa=X&ei=CPB8TcCsDsqEhQfZ4rDhBg&ved=0CDsQ8wIwAw#


It has made a huge difference.

The other thing you need to check is whether the shower has a restrictor as I think the manufacturers are required to put them in as standard now for environmental reasons.

It might also be worth trying a shower hose with a large bore, although when I tried one, it didn't make much difference as the existing one had quite a large bore already.

jockettuk

funnily enough she got a new shower head coming .. is a freebie from thames water companys promotion so see if that works .. she put new hose on and it was a bit better and bought new head but think the one you pointed out be better if thames water one rubbish

thanks again

The housing association have said there is nothing they can do to make the power any stronger as there is sufficent water coming out but not to enjoy.

SuzieSue

jockettuk wrote: »

funnily enough she got a new shower head coming .. is a freebie from thames water companys promotion so see if that works ..

If it's a freebie from TW, then it's likely to have the opposite effect as they are going all out to try to get people to use less water or are they sending it out because she complained about the low pressure to them?

jockettuk

SuzieSue wrote: »

If it's a freebie from TW, then it's likely to have the opposite effect as they are going all out to try to get people to use less water or are they sending it out because she complained about the low pressure to them?

thanks... this shower head is specifically for low pressure and my friend says its fantastic million times better.. so although the shower not fantastic its better now... some of the other freebies she got were great.. Im with anglian water and there freebies not as good as thames

SuzieSue

jockettuk wrote: »

thanks... this shower head is specifically for low pressure and my friend says its fantastic million times better.. so although the shower not fantastic its better now... some of the other freebies she got were great.. Im with anglian water and there freebies not as good as thames

Thanks, I'm with Thames Water. I've just looked on their website but it's all water saving devices. How did she get it? Did she ring them up?