Hiya,
I'm replumbing my house at the moment, 3 bed detached, 1930s. It has old steel pipe pretty bunged up, cold water and heating storage tanks in the loft, a massive old boiler and a hot water tank.
I'm going to go for a combi to get some space back by losing the hot water tank, probably a Vaillant 937 as it has a built in mini hot water store with it. Failing that a 838 (no store).
My water pressure is OK far as I can tell, currently though (mainly due to internal pipework) my electric shower struggles for pressure (direct from mains).
When I put my new boiler in I can junk the cold water storage and run it all direct to the taps/boiler/toilets. Or should I run a new storage tank and put a pump on it (to get decent pressure again)?
My main priority is having a really good mixer shower no matter what's happening in the house. I don't want pressure to drop because someone flushed a toilet or is watering the garden (which currently happens).
To achieve this will I need a cold water tank still? I will run direct to the boiler/kitchen taps, and feed everything else from the tank then I suppose? Ideally I'd save fitting a new tank/replumbing, but I don't want to go to all this work to find out my new system isn't that good.
Thank you very much for your advice
I'm replumbing my house at the moment, 3 bed detached, 1930s. It has old steel pipe pretty bunged up, cold water and heating storage tanks in the loft, a massive old boiler and a hot water tank.
I'm going to go for a combi to get some space back by losing the hot water tank, probably a Vaillant 937 as it has a built in mini hot water store with it. Failing that a 838 (no store).
My water pressure is OK far as I can tell, currently though (mainly due to internal pipework) my electric shower struggles for pressure (direct from mains).
When I put my new boiler in I can junk the cold water storage and run it all direct to the taps/boiler/toilets. Or should I run a new storage tank and put a pump on it (to get decent pressure again)?
My main priority is having a really good mixer shower no matter what's happening in the house. I don't want pressure to drop because someone flushed a toilet or is watering the garden (which currently happens).
To achieve this will I need a cold water tank still? I will run direct to the boiler/kitchen taps, and feed everything else from the tank then I suppose? Ideally I'd save fitting a new tank/replumbing, but I don't want to go to all this work to find out my new system isn't that good.
Thank you very much for your advice