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Hot Water Pump
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Does this video explain it
So if I purchase a water Stuart Turner Universial Water 2 bar pump, drain water cylinder, isolate cold water supply then cut into the hot/cold 22mm pipes in picture, push fit fittings so I can run pipe to the inlets of the pump, then push fittings to connect the pump to the outlet of pipes that supply house taps/shower etc...
once connected turn water supply back on run taps/shower to clear any air and once satisifed turn on pump then i should have more power??
I intend to install pump on the floor (under the self) so my flexi hoses from pump are straight with no bends.
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Is this above your hot water cylinder? Take a pic of the hot pipework from the cylinder.
Take it the shower feed is mains cold?
Take it the shower feed is mains cold?
Not actually fitted myself but have seen them in action in two of my clients properties and they were well pleased. Plus it's an easy DIY fit
The hot water cylinder sits to left hand side of these pipe on the shelf you see in the picture.
I think I need am S flange to feed the pump and have the expansion pipe work as normal.
No the shower is feed by the loft tank
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Cylinder is on the ground floor I take it? If so I would suggest the least intrusive method would be to take a tee off your hot and cold pipes and mount a pumped single outlet digital mixer shower at the foot of cylinder/below it. It'll need a power supply to the airing cupboard unit, you get wireless control units for the bathroom though.
This could utilise your existing shower pipe.
This could utilise your existing shower pipe.
no my cylinder is abut 2 foot off the ground on the self in the first picture.
the hot/cold pipes in the first picture i was planning to cut and install/connect pump on the ground below the cylinder .
would you recommend an S Flange to the top of cylinder?
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Yes I just meant in a ground floor cupboard, as in you have another floor above before the loft tank?
You could but it's probably not necessary, your setup is ideal you can have a significant vertical drop from your hot takeoff to the pump which minimises air getting drawn in. If your tank is 2 floors below the loft as well you don't need a universal pump (with a tank), just a normal positive head pump
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Or as I suggested you could have a remote shower mixer that includes a pump - pump won't be as good as a standalone but much better than electric
It's a bungalow and loft tank to top of cylinder is about 3/4 foot.
I did the test and 300ml in 6 secs so Stuart Turner said universal pump is required
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Gotcha, I saw floorboards above the cylinder and assumed that wasn't the loft
so you still think I could go ahead without a flange due to the ditance between top of cylinder feed to the pump inlet?
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Yep definitely. Is your plan to use the existing shower feed pipe and just boost the shower?
The existing feed pipes in the first picture will cover all taps and the mixer shower in bathrooms
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