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Yeah, I was wondering about that - hence asking. Presumably something like this would work without taking all the neighbours water, as it could charge up? https://www.anchorpumps.com/stuart-turner-flomate-mains-boost-mbf-60-1-15-3-bar-combi-boiler-booster-pump-set-240v

You could outline your reasons for your belief that the Stuart Turner pump won't work?

Would one of these ruin the shower experience of all my neighbours? https://www.stuart-turner.co.uk/product/mainsboost-flomate-mbf-12-46574

Honestly, it'd be a disaster - the managing agent would stick his hand out so fast there'd be a sonic boom, then he'd get a quote for £180,000 for the work. Also, I don't know where those would go - sounds like more kit than would fit in a broom cupboard?

So a tank and pump type thing in my flat isn't going to achieve anything? It's pointless trying to organise anything through the building management, they're as venal as they're useless.

Stopcock is fine, 100% of neighbours report low water pressure for the entire time they've lived here.

Hah, no - moved in nine years ago. Water pressure is rubbish for everyone in the block, always has been. You get used to it, but then you go away on holiday (as I did last week) and the water pressure is a real "oh, oh dear" moment the first time you step in the shower. It's been on the list to...

Main supply comes in then it's distributed throughout the block through pipework, when I reported the low pressure to the water board they took a look and said it is what it is - in a modern block there'd be a big pump between the mains supply and the flats, but given the age of the block that...

Four stories, there are tanks on the roof but they only feed the cisterns, direct mains to the taps and boiler.

Our 1930's block doesn't have any pumps so rely totally on mains pressure to deliver water to the 63 flats. It's very weak by the time it gets to us, on the 1st floor. Is this situation something that a pump on the mains supply within my flat would help, or would that simply overwhelm the supply?

The sockets connect to each other- there is no cable join within the wall, what's happening there is the wire comes into one, goes into the next, then comes out to go along to the next socket- it's a radial circuit. And yes, RCD protected. Timber noggins sounds straightforward.

Right- go here for a small album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8131181@N05/sets/72157644853848734/

(I'm guessing I can't use an external image host) http://media.diynot.com/155000_154463_77828_94247512_thumb.jpg

Sure, give me five minutes.

We live in a 1930's flat block, it's a concrete frame, internal walls are cinder block and external walls are cavity wall using odd, very narrow bricks- I've never seen them anywhere else. The bricks are VERY fragile, and in contrast the plaster is very, very strong- you can't get a nail into...

That 15mm will mean that the board overlaps the shower tray by that amount, which may look a bit odd but there you go,

Hi Richard, sorry- should have made it clearer, I bought two boxes of those frame fixings you linked to upthread, and will use them to ensure that it's firmly on. I was more wondering if the board adhesive would be sufficient to the task of getting the aquapanel to stay on the wall at all...

Right, lets have another crack at posting photographs! This is the ensuite, where the shower tray is going to go: To the left is the cinder block/base plaster/finishing plaster/paint wall. Directly in front is stud, soon to be covered in Aquapanel. To the right is Aquapanel. The...