Can a shower pump be connected to a tap?
Can a shower pump be connected to a tap?
If I run new pipes to hot and cold water tanks and connect to a pump (not too high pressure perhaps 1.5 bar) and then run them to a regular bath / shower mixer tap will I see much of a benefit to the pressure when using the shower? Or is most of this wasted as the shower part is normally only 15mm where as the tap pipes are 22mm?
What do you need to know about the mixer shower?
The manual mixer shower, the thermostatic mixer shower and the electric shower. The manual mixer shower does exactly what it says on the tin. You manually adjust the levels of hot and cold water to your required pressure and temperature. In most cases, you will need a twin impeller system to boost pressure of both hot and cold water supply.
How to calculate pump to bath tap mixer?
Crudely, turn on your mixer tap to hot and open fully. Get a l-2ltr container and time how long it take to fill. Do the same for the cold. The timings should be similar. From this you can work out the flow rate i.e time to fill divided in to 60 (seconds) multiplied by the volume of the container you filled.
What should the pressure be on a mixer tap?
A good mixer tap will balance hot and cold with a pressure differential of 4 to 1, or even 5 to 1 (which is why we have carefully sized the pump as we have – powerful enough but not too powerful so that it unbalances the pressure).
If I run new pipes to hot and cold water tanks and connect to a pump (not too high pressure perhaps 1.5 bar) and then run them to a regular bath / shower mixer tap will I see much of a benefit to the pressure when using the shower? Or is most of this wasted as the shower part is normally only 15mm where as the tap pipes are 22mm?
The manual mixer shower, the thermostatic mixer shower and the electric shower. The manual mixer shower does exactly what it says on the tin. You manually adjust the levels of hot and cold water to your required pressure and temperature. In most cases, you will need a twin impeller system to boost pressure of both hot and cold water supply.
Crudely, turn on your mixer tap to hot and open fully. Get a l-2ltr container and time how long it take to fill. Do the same for the cold. The timings should be similar. From this you can work out the flow rate i.e time to fill divided in to 60 (seconds) multiplied by the volume of the container you filled.
Do you need a twin impeller for a mixer shower?
The manual mixer shower does exactly what it says on the tin. You manually adjust the levels of hot and cold water to your required pressure and temperature. In most cases, you will need a twin impeller system to boost pressure of both hot and cold water supply.