Hi,
My gf's mum has just had a new bathroom installed. The new bathroom has a new mixer tap on the sink and mixer tap/shower head on the bath.
The house is quite old (1890's) and the bathroom room is located on the first floor, in what could be considered the roof of the property. They have a small header tank (50 cms high x 60cms long x 50 cms wide) above the bathroom which feeds the hot water tank on one feed, (located in the bathroom) and then sink and bath cold supplies respectively, on a second feed.
The problem is, there is only about 8 inches between the bottom of the header tank and the top of the shower head, so there is no pressure on the cold side of the shower. The water dribbles out. The bath cold tap isn't too bad, and the sink tap is ok, but not great.
What solutions are there to increase the flow rate, pressure of the cold side of the system?
I would assume a pump could be used, but I am concerned that it would empty the header tank before it could be resupplied by the mains. This happens at the minute, without a pump, if a bath or shower is taken and yesterday it caused an air lock on the cold supply and I had to back fill the cold supply to get it working again.
There is no room for a bigger header tank and no room above the bathroom to increase the height of the tank either so that is out.
Could the cold supply to the sink and bath be plumbed directly into the mains? Would this help with the flow rate?
Any other suggestions would be grateful.
Thanks.
Sorry for length!!
My gf's mum has just had a new bathroom installed. The new bathroom has a new mixer tap on the sink and mixer tap/shower head on the bath.
The house is quite old (1890's) and the bathroom room is located on the first floor, in what could be considered the roof of the property. They have a small header tank (50 cms high x 60cms long x 50 cms wide) above the bathroom which feeds the hot water tank on one feed, (located in the bathroom) and then sink and bath cold supplies respectively, on a second feed.
The problem is, there is only about 8 inches between the bottom of the header tank and the top of the shower head, so there is no pressure on the cold side of the shower. The water dribbles out. The bath cold tap isn't too bad, and the sink tap is ok, but not great.
What solutions are there to increase the flow rate, pressure of the cold side of the system?
I would assume a pump could be used, but I am concerned that it would empty the header tank before it could be resupplied by the mains. This happens at the minute, without a pump, if a bath or shower is taken and yesterday it caused an air lock on the cold supply and I had to back fill the cold supply to get it working again.
There is no room for a bigger header tank and no room above the bathroom to increase the height of the tank either so that is out.
Could the cold supply to the sink and bath be plumbed directly into the mains? Would this help with the flow rate?
Any other suggestions would be grateful.
Thanks.
Sorry for length!!