Hi,
Any help or advice on the following matter would be greatly appreciated. We recently had a leak in our cold water tank and had the plumbers replace it, as part of the work they changed the cold water (from the tank) to the mains supply (the tank they installed is smaller than the old one) and despite assurances from them that there would be no issues in doing this we now have unbalanced supplies which is making it very difficult to regulate the temperature in the shower (via a basic tap/mixer); either the hot is on or the cold. Previously we could combine the two which would result in reasonably pressure and flow from the shower, now because the shower is pretty much only hot or cold the pressure is not very good. The plumbers involved then fitted a pressure reducing valve to the cold and a non return valve to the hot (at extra cost I might add) which allowed us to reduce the flow of the cold (not sure about the pressure to be honest) but this has not solved the problem. The plumbers now reckon that I need a pump to increase the hot water pressure; more cost. I have decided that if I do need to do this then I won’t be using these plumbers as they are the ones who have gotten me into this mess in the first place, but before contracting another plumber I was wondering if anyone knows if there are taps I could get (and install myself) which do a reasonable job of mixing unbalanced supplies (as an FYI, the actual flow of the hot is now greater than the cold, pressure is obviously not though)
I was considering the following ones:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/91379...ower-Mixer;jsessionid=2AO3HBGZCNBTECSTHZPCFFA
since the pressure out of the spout is good and the temperature can be regulated (out of the spout).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
David
Any help or advice on the following matter would be greatly appreciated. We recently had a leak in our cold water tank and had the plumbers replace it, as part of the work they changed the cold water (from the tank) to the mains supply (the tank they installed is smaller than the old one) and despite assurances from them that there would be no issues in doing this we now have unbalanced supplies which is making it very difficult to regulate the temperature in the shower (via a basic tap/mixer); either the hot is on or the cold. Previously we could combine the two which would result in reasonably pressure and flow from the shower, now because the shower is pretty much only hot or cold the pressure is not very good. The plumbers involved then fitted a pressure reducing valve to the cold and a non return valve to the hot (at extra cost I might add) which allowed us to reduce the flow of the cold (not sure about the pressure to be honest) but this has not solved the problem. The plumbers now reckon that I need a pump to increase the hot water pressure; more cost. I have decided that if I do need to do this then I won’t be using these plumbers as they are the ones who have gotten me into this mess in the first place, but before contracting another plumber I was wondering if anyone knows if there are taps I could get (and install myself) which do a reasonable job of mixing unbalanced supplies (as an FYI, the actual flow of the hot is now greater than the cold, pressure is obviously not though)
I was considering the following ones:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/91379...ower-Mixer;jsessionid=2AO3HBGZCNBTECSTHZPCFFA
since the pressure out of the spout is good and the temperature can be regulated (out of the spout).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
David