Bath Shower

sarah_id1

Currently I have a Bath Shower Mixer on my upstairs bathroom. There is 2 issue with

Hot Water Pressure:
If someone's using kitchen tap downstairs, hot water pressure in the bath upstairs gets too low. Although cold water pressure is still decent.

Twin handle adjustment
Most of the mixer taps have twin handle and I find it hard to keep adjusting them to get the right water temperature. Is it only me find this difficult!


I was thinking to replace this with a Thermostatic mixer shower with single handle to solve both the problem unless anyone suggest a better alternative.

Also any suggestion of high quality Thermostatic mixer shower appreciated.

sarah_id1

Anyone with similar experience or suggestion please!

manda1205

We have a thermostatic mixer bar on ours. Ours works brilliantly with keeping temperature. We do have very good water pressure, however if someone does run cold tap in kitchen it will drop slightly into the shower. We just make sure no one touches the other taps when someone is in the shower. I don't think you can really stop this from happening no matter what tap you have on your bath/shower.

PasturesNew

A cheaper solution is to throw a tea towel over the downstairs taps and a note "don't use, I'm in the shower".



Very MSE

Le_Kirk

The way I solved this was to have two separate feeds from both hot and cold to each of my two showers upstairs. This way both showers can be used at the same time and if someone flushes the toilet, you don't get scalded. We did it whilst installing new showers so was easier. Might be more difficult if you have existing installations.

andyhop

That won't make jack off a difference

Any pressure drop or split flow you will get this. Only way is to fit showers fit for purpose to the hot water system.

Combis aren't designed for multiple use, neither really is low pressure tanked unless you have a large tank and a decent all house pump , Only pressurised cylinders work on multiple draw offs but water pressure and flow can also affect this

phill99

As above. If you are running off a combi, you will still get a pressure drop.


An electric shower will stop this problem as it wont be coming off the combi

andyhop

It'll also give you a !!!! poor shower that's no better than running 2 showers of a combi

Average electric shower 5l per minute

Average combi 11l per minute

Le_Kirk

andyhop wrote: »

That won't make jack off a difference

Does on mine!

andyhop wrote: »

Combis aren't designed for multiple use, neither really is low pressure tanked unless you have a large tank and a decent all house pump , Only pressurised cylinders work on multiple draw offs but water pressure and flow can also affect this

Sorry didn't know it was a combi driven system, the OP doesn't mention it.