Rubbish shower pressure and sensitive mixer tap - options?

cubegame

Hello all.

We've just moved to a new house and to be honest the shower pressure is really rubbish via he bath mixer tap.

The hot water is gravity fed (there is a reasonable head between shower and tank) and is quite sluggish. The pressure is reasonable with a wide bore shower hose and the correct shower head but not astounding.

On problem is that the cold water is mains fed, meaning that the mixer is very sensitive and turning the cold one millimetre too far shuts off the hot.

I just wondered what the options are. Is a pump for the hot water the best option or will getting the water pressure on the cold side down work?

Cheers

adandem

You may find that changing the tap helps. We have the same type as you and our last tap was brilliant. We changed our suite/taps last year and had a tap like this:
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Vision/Vision-Bath-Shower-Mixer-Tap/invt/417462

Although we apparently have enoughe pressure, the flow is really poor compared to our last tap which was more like this:
http://www.wickes.co.uk/BBQs/Trade-Bath-Shower-Mixer-Tap/invt/410604

Haven't used a pump so can't help there I'm afraid.