New shower installation

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I have recently moved house and have got a bathroom with bath but no shower, and a separate shower room.

To avoid queues and arguments, I am thinking about putting in a shower over the bath.

The feeds in the bathroom are gravity hot and (as far as I'm aware) mains water cold.

The feed to the shower-room is gravity for both hot and cold water.

So I reckon my options are either:

- a completely new thermostatic mixer on the wall above the bath, fed direct with pipes T'd off the hot and cold gravity supplies in the loft

- a thermostatic mixer shower / bath tap combi

So am I correct in assuming that to achieve the latter, I'd probably need to put a dedicated cold water feed in from the header tank to the bathroom anyway?

If anyone has any experience of either of the above, I'd appreciate any feedback.

Cheers

(P.S. have had an electric shower in the past with mains water feed but the electric bill was shocking - no pun intended - and don't want to go down this route again really).
 
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You are correct. Either way you need balanced hot and cold, or a Trevi boost type (venturi) shower - ie. one that uses mains pressure to draw the hot.
 

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