Hi everyone - first post on these forums.
I've been trying to improve the electric shower in our tenement flat. There is very little water pressure, so I bought and fitted a fairly beefy pump - supposedly capable of up to 5 bar. However, the flow from the shower is still disappointing - it's more like a drippy tap to be honest. The pump is making plenty of noise and appears to be working properly. It's better than before but not anywhere near what I was expecting.
The bottleneck seems to be the shower itself, especially when I turn the temperature up, it reduces the flow to a trickle.
A friend has suggested fitting a new electric shower, with more heating capacity. Our current shower is a 7kW unit, and the largest I have seen anywhere is 10kW. Is that extra 3kW really going to make a difference?
Any advice welcome!
I've been trying to improve the electric shower in our tenement flat. There is very little water pressure, so I bought and fitted a fairly beefy pump - supposedly capable of up to 5 bar. However, the flow from the shower is still disappointing - it's more like a drippy tap to be honest. The pump is making plenty of noise and appears to be working properly. It's better than before but not anywhere near what I was expecting.
The bottleneck seems to be the shower itself, especially when I turn the temperature up, it reduces the flow to a trickle.
A friend has suggested fitting a new electric shower, with more heating capacity. Our current shower is a 7kW unit, and the largest I have seen anywhere is 10kW. Is that extra 3kW really going to make a difference?
Any advice welcome!