Hot water pressure

[wizzman]

Hi All, I live in a house that had a downstairs bathroom but now I have extended and the bathroom will now be upstairs.
My question is will there be enough hot water pressure to feed the bath and sink taps now they are upstairs?
I have a normal boiler vented system fed by a header tank in the loft ( next to the main cold water header tank) The boiler is in a downstairs room on its own with the hot water cylinder mounted directly above it i.e. the bottom of the cylinder is about 4 1/2 feet off ground level.

any help appreciated. cheers

 

[seco services]

if your cylinder and cws tank are in the loft and your bathroom is below
long as the bath is 22m supply and basin 15mm supply they will be ok.

 

[wizzman]

Hmm hot water cylinder is downstairs

 

[seco services]

so cws in loft
bathroom underneath, cylinder on floor under bathroom ?

 

[wizzman]

yep, boiler on ground floor, hot water tank mounted above it on shelf 4 1/2 feet above floor level but obviously below all 1st floor appliances. do you think the cws will give enough pressure to feed the hot bath/ sink taps .I am taking the cold feed straight from the rising main. Everywhere else that I have lived the hw tank has been upstairs in an airing cupboard. Or is this me being paranoid ??? cheers ,Ian

 

[seco services]

it don't matter where the hw cylinder is, its where the cws tank is and the higher the better.

so from the base of your tank in loft to a bath tap is about 8ft same as a house.

every metre is 0.1 bar you'll have about 0.2 / 0.3 bar thats ok

just make sure you fit low pressure taps
mains pressure taps that say require 1.0 bar won't be any good.

 

[wizzman]

Good man thank you.