Hi all, i have recently changed our taps in the bathroom to pretty mixer taps and have lost all my hot water pressure. It takes easily half an hour to fill the bath.
I have read up and it seems these taps are designed to work with mains pressure like you get from a combi boiler but we just have a normal boiler and hot water cylinder.
The cold pressure is fine as it is mains fed. The downstairs kitchen tap is ok though not as powerful as it used to be (i changed this one too to a pretty mixer).
I am looking at fitting a booster pump to increase the hot pressure but i am wondering where to fit it.
If you look at my (very rough and not to scale) diagram (which i hope you can see as i've never attached a pic on this forum before) there is a single hot water pipe that comes out the top of the cylinder and just before it goes through the ceiling into the attic it splits. The one part then goes and feeds all my taps and the split becomes the vent back into the cold water tank in the attic.
I have been reading up on various pumps and i have convinced myself that the pump should be on the floor next to the tank. Is this correct or can i put it in the attic which means that the pump would be a lot higher than the cylinder?
If next to the tank where should i take the supply from? From the vertical pipework after where the vent splits off or run it down from the attic when the pipe turns horizontal?
I hope this all makes sense and thankyou in advance,
Nick
I have read up and it seems these taps are designed to work with mains pressure like you get from a combi boiler but we just have a normal boiler and hot water cylinder.
The cold pressure is fine as it is mains fed. The downstairs kitchen tap is ok though not as powerful as it used to be (i changed this one too to a pretty mixer).
I am looking at fitting a booster pump to increase the hot pressure but i am wondering where to fit it.
If you look at my (very rough and not to scale) diagram (which i hope you can see as i've never attached a pic on this forum before) there is a single hot water pipe that comes out the top of the cylinder and just before it goes through the ceiling into the attic it splits. The one part then goes and feeds all my taps and the split becomes the vent back into the cold water tank in the attic.
I have been reading up on various pumps and i have convinced myself that the pump should be on the floor next to the tank. Is this correct or can i put it in the attic which means that the pump would be a lot higher than the cylinder?
If next to the tank where should i take the supply from? From the vertical pipework after where the vent splits off or run it down from the attic when the pipe turns horizontal?
I hope this all makes sense and thankyou in advance,
Nick