Manual Mixer Shower / pump options

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Moved into a property, the ensuite has a fairly new fitted shower which is a concealed manual valve type. The pressure is terible and barely useable. I could do with fitting a pump but not sure what the options are. The pipes dont seem to be above the shower in the loft and the shower tray is fairly low to the ground but I assume the feed must be coming up from below. I assume a pump fitted in the airing cupboard will pump the whole house which is not required.

any ideas?

Thanks
 
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Your assumption about pumping the whole house is not necessarily correct but a whole lot more info about your current system is needed before "any ideas" can be given.
 
Thanks Richard,

Should have added more info but it was late!

we have two cold water storage tanks in the loft , seem to be joined together (only ever had one before) plus the Central heating header tank.

Hot water cylinder in the Airing cupboard and 3 port valve. The shower mixer is a Bristan manual valve in the ensuite and we have another family bathroom which has Bath with a Aqualasia pumped shower over bath. This pump is in the loft and looks like it is fed directly from the cold water storage tank.
 
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The 3 port valve is just controlling the heating/hot water pumped circuits from the boiler, nothing to do with the shower circuit. Connecting 2x CWS tanks is not unusual to increase storage capacity but the inter-connection should ideally be 28mm. What size are the CWS tanks?

So you have a pump in the loft which only feeds the Aqualisa shower over the bath, what sort of shower is it? Was it a later addition to the bathroom or did the en-suite came along after? You say its cold water fed directly from the loft tank, does it not pump the hot water as well? What size/make/model is the pump?

It’s unusual to have 2 pumps so you may be able to utilise the one you’ve got depending on size & current pipe routes or you could replace it with a single pump with sufficient output for both showers, even if it means re-siting the pump.

Unless you have a pumped whole house system (which almost certainly you don't currently have), the shower HW circuit will always have a dedicated take off from the HW cylinder, either from a double outlet flange in the top of the cylinder or, preferably, a flange in the side of the cylinder, which do you have?

Lots of questions I know but unless you can understand a bit more about the system you currently have & how it’s all connected, it’s going to be nigh on impossible to advise; a bit like the blind leading the blind! If it’s not possible for you to make some sort of diagram of what you currently have, I would suggest you call in a specialist but be aware that “plumbers” don’t/won’t necessarily know how to design a pumped shower system so it will work correctly. ;)
 

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