So a while ago I re-plumbed my bathroom. We have an old boiler downstairs, water tank upstairs with a header tank in the loft.
Against all good advice I teed the bath supply from the shower supply. It was takign ages for the hot water to come through on the shower, so we needed the cold tap running in the bath to reduce the cold pressure enough to get the hot through.
I realised that the cold water feed was straight from the mains, so I changed this and now it's coming straight from the tank in the loft, so should be under the same pressure (or thereabouts) as the hot water, but we still have the same problem.
I know that none of this is ideal, but i'm skint and just trying to get things working OK. Any ideas? I've heard about pressure-reducing valves and thought about putting one of those in the cold water feed.
Any help gratefully received.
Against all good advice I teed the bath supply from the shower supply. It was takign ages for the hot water to come through on the shower, so we needed the cold tap running in the bath to reduce the cold pressure enough to get the hot through.
I realised that the cold water feed was straight from the mains, so I changed this and now it's coming straight from the tank in the loft, so should be under the same pressure (or thereabouts) as the hot water, but we still have the same problem.
I know that none of this is ideal, but i'm skint and just trying to get things working OK. Any ideas? I've heard about pressure-reducing valves and thought about putting one of those in the cold water feed.
Any help gratefully received.