I'm fitting an electric shower (Mira) over my bath and have just noticed that the shower is supposed to be fed from the header tank (gravity). I don't have a header tank. What will happen if i go ahead and connect it to a mains pressure, cold water pipe? Will it still work?
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Connect a gravity feed shower to mains water??
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It's likely to have a few problems - the pressure and/or flow rate will probably be too low. Check the MIs and see what the min pressure and flow rate requirements are.
Don't forget that Part P regs cover the installation of a new electric shower
Don't forget that Part P regs cover the installation of a new electric shower
Am I right in thinking that this Mira shower contains a pump? If so, then this is the reason it's designed to work from a 'header tank', rather than the mains.
If you connect it to the mains then you run the risk of (a) breaching the Water Regulations (pumping from mains without permission), and (b) under-running the pump and causing it to die an early death through cavitation.
If you connect it to the mains then you run the risk of (a) breaching the Water Regulations (pumping from mains without permission), and (b) under-running the pump and causing it to die an early death through cavitation.
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