Hi all
Right...I'm about to rip out my old bathroom suite and replace it with a nice new one (with my dad's help). At the moment I have a basic bath/shower mixer which is broke and only works on the shower setting (baths take a while to fill up using the shower I can tell ya). So I am looking to replace this. I'd considered an electric shower but it would have to be opposite end to the taps which is not what I want and haven't got the funds to go about turning the bath around. I also considered a mixer but don't want to go digging out the walls. So after much consideration i've decided either to replace my bath/shower mixer with a thermostatic version or get a ceiling fed mixer which I must admit look nicer.
However....I have a gravity fed system where the base of the cold take is probably only 1-1.5 metres above the shower head so it's quite low pressure.
My questions are:
1) will a low pressure (minimum 0.1 bar) thermostatic bath/shower mixer generate the same flow as my old manual mixer or will restrictions in the body reduce that. At the moment my manual shower is passable.
2) what are the ceiling fed showers like? I know i'd have to run pipes from the hot and cold water but will I get a better shower?
In all honesty I probably need a shower pump but I don't have the funds to pay someone to fit it and I would have no chance.
Any advice you can offer about bath/shower mixers or ceiling fed showers or any other for that matter would be much appreciated. I'm stuck knowing what to do, I don't want to buy a shower and it doens't work after fitting it. My manual mixer works ok so i'm basing my assumptions on that working as an indication that the thermostatic varietys should work the same.
Thanks
Mark
Right...I'm about to rip out my old bathroom suite and replace it with a nice new one (with my dad's help). At the moment I have a basic bath/shower mixer which is broke and only works on the shower setting (baths take a while to fill up using the shower I can tell ya). So I am looking to replace this. I'd considered an electric shower but it would have to be opposite end to the taps which is not what I want and haven't got the funds to go about turning the bath around. I also considered a mixer but don't want to go digging out the walls. So after much consideration i've decided either to replace my bath/shower mixer with a thermostatic version or get a ceiling fed mixer which I must admit look nicer.
However....I have a gravity fed system where the base of the cold take is probably only 1-1.5 metres above the shower head so it's quite low pressure.
My questions are:
1) will a low pressure (minimum 0.1 bar) thermostatic bath/shower mixer generate the same flow as my old manual mixer or will restrictions in the body reduce that. At the moment my manual shower is passable.
2) what are the ceiling fed showers like? I know i'd have to run pipes from the hot and cold water but will I get a better shower?
In all honesty I probably need a shower pump but I don't have the funds to pay someone to fit it and I would have no chance.
Any advice you can offer about bath/shower mixers or ceiling fed showers or any other for that matter would be much appreciated. I'm stuck knowing what to do, I don't want to buy a shower and it doens't work after fitting it. My manual mixer works ok so i'm basing my assumptions on that working as an indication that the thermostatic varietys should work the same.
Thanks
Mark
