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Sorry wasn't clear, the shower has 3 heating power settings (high, eco, low). By turning down I meant with the power on high and the temperature control turned right down (which increases the flow out of the unit (while decreasing the temperature, obviously)). It does 5 litres a minute with it...

The water gets plenty hot, absolutely scalding on the "high" mode. Even when turned down all the way. Same flows with the shower head off and just the hose. I will add that the pressure has been so bad in the morning at times that the shower won't even turn on. Everyone on the upper floors of...

Fully cold, measured just now, ~5.5l/m. When turned on to a normal shower temperature it was around 3.3 l/m. Noting this is in the middle of the day. During the peak morning hours the flow is quite a lot lower. A test I did a few weeks back was around 2.4l/m when taken in the morning. The...

Fair enough. I mean, really, the pressure is a big part of the problem. It's barely enough to rinse soap off! As for the 0.2, good question. It wasn't measured - I think someone said it must be around that on the basis of it being ~0.7 at the kitchen tap downstairs, so 5m or so of drop off. So...

Hi. I have a property with a traditional gravity-fed system, with bathroom taps running off an old salamander pump with 22mm pipe. The electric shower runs from mains and pressure/flow is abysmal (we’re talking less than 3 l/m and something around 0.2 bar). I was hoping to upgrade the pump...

Interesting, thanks for that. I didn't know if you'd be able to pump into an electric shower? I think my current electric shower takes mains only: a 9 kW Mira. I should add that the 2.5l/m was with the shower set to Eco mode and the temperature turned up about half way. With the shower set to...

Hi. Yeah, it's a salamander CT Force 15TU, pumps both hot and cold to taps and the shower over bath. Not sure if an installation problem, but it's very loud - can be heard throughout the building. The flow from it is fair, but takes a while to kick in sometimes and could be better. Stupid...

A follow on from a previous post. I have now established that the incoming water pressure/flow rate cannot be increased to my flat. A common problem in this development. The incoming pressure entering my property is ~1 bar and 5 l/m - this is at ground floor. Currently have an electric shower...

Cheers. There are actually 3: The Thames Water one outside at the meter down a manhole; one at the ground floor in the corridor of the block of flats; and the one in my flat. The TW guy checked out the one outside and it seemed okay to him. I had a go with the one in my flat and seems fine...

Indeed. Checks out if 1.7 bar outside and I'm getting ~0.7 to 1 in my property 6 to 7 m up (not to mention further 3m to the upper floor of my flat where HW and CW storage currently is). What am I looking for when checking the stop taps? Is there going to be some external evidence of them being...

Not sure regarding flow rate, but I spoke to a few people and all that was mentioned was 1 bar where the pipe enters the property. One chap mentioned that (given I had my own supply) this should be 1 bar at the entrance to my flat, rather than at ground floor. But the engineer didn't seem to...

1) I think the guy from TW implied the latter, but I'm not sure in all honesty. 2) Not sure about under the manhole outside, but in the building it's 15mm. It seems that the supply to my flat is what it is. TW consider themselves to be providing their minimum obligation (1 bar at ground floor)...

Hello all. [following is the edited version as apparently the original had too many words...]. My incoming supply is rubbish. I've looked into improving it through Thames Water and the management company of my flats, but I'm stuck with a little less than 1 bar (second floor flat), and a flow...