Next month I'll be fitting a new bathroom, after looking at the space we had, etc we have decided that we want to fit a small shower enclosure.
This is stretching my budget it a little, but I'm hoping I can find decent fittings, etc for reasonable money.
1st off the enclosure, was looking at the 800 quadrant Screwfix one, although in silver it was £350. Seen this on ebay, sounds like it's of same quality, can you really go too far wrong with an enclosure?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/800-x-800-or-...yZ112553QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Secondly, I am most likely going to go for a fixed shower head with flush fit mixer valves (pipework in the cavity), or maybe a fixed head with additional flexy shower.
Looking around, the price of the mixer valves and heads can vary a great deal, some places want around £300 for valve/head. Is there anywhere people can recommend that I look?
Saw this on ebay which is similar style to what I want, although separate flow/temp controls would be nice - is it too cheap to be any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OSCIL-FIXED-H...ryZ32875QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Finally, a lot of the mixer valves I have looked at say they will operate from 0.1 bar. In reality will the shower operate well if supplied by a lower pressure unbalanced system? Would I get very low flow, or hot/cold problems?
Would I be far better using a small pump to give balanced high pressure? Such as one of these:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;j...A?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=salamander+ct50
Hoping someone can help - thanks
This is stretching my budget it a little, but I'm hoping I can find decent fittings, etc for reasonable money.
1st off the enclosure, was looking at the 800 quadrant Screwfix one, although in silver it was £350. Seen this on ebay, sounds like it's of same quality, can you really go too far wrong with an enclosure?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/800-x-800-or-...yZ112553QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Secondly, I am most likely going to go for a fixed shower head with flush fit mixer valves (pipework in the cavity), or maybe a fixed head with additional flexy shower.
Looking around, the price of the mixer valves and heads can vary a great deal, some places want around £300 for valve/head. Is there anywhere people can recommend that I look?
Saw this on ebay which is similar style to what I want, although separate flow/temp controls would be nice - is it too cheap to be any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OSCIL-FIXED-H...ryZ32875QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Finally, a lot of the mixer valves I have looked at say they will operate from 0.1 bar. In reality will the shower operate well if supplied by a lower pressure unbalanced system? Would I get very low flow, or hot/cold problems?
Would I be far better using a small pump to give balanced high pressure? Such as one of these:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;j...A?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=salamander+ct50
Hoping someone can help - thanks
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