Please may I get some advice from the plumbing experts here.
Time for a new shower enclosure.
I want to replace my aging electric shower with a good thermostatic mixer supplied from a Worcester OIL Heatslave combi boiler.
I have looked at all the major brands and examined as many Installation Manuals as I can find. All of them state that the combi MUST be "fully modulating". Further research indicates that there are very few (if any) domestic oil-fired combi boilers that modulate - mine certainly does not.
My bath mixer tap works perfectly OK and I'm sure that If I stuck a high pressure bath shower mixer on the bath then that would also work. So why do a need a fully modulating boiler to supply a shower "tap"? All I want to do is to connect two water pipes to a mixer and have the water come out of a tap with lots of small holes in it!
Any help on a work-around would be very welcome.
(A new electric shower is a last resort because I would need an electrician to install an MCB and he wouldn't like my wired fuses and I'll end up with a complete rewire.)
TIA.
Time for a new shower enclosure.
I want to replace my aging electric shower with a good thermostatic mixer supplied from a Worcester OIL Heatslave combi boiler.
I have looked at all the major brands and examined as many Installation Manuals as I can find. All of them state that the combi MUST be "fully modulating". Further research indicates that there are very few (if any) domestic oil-fired combi boilers that modulate - mine certainly does not.
My bath mixer tap works perfectly OK and I'm sure that If I stuck a high pressure bath shower mixer on the bath then that would also work. So why do a need a fully modulating boiler to supply a shower "tap"? All I want to do is to connect two water pipes to a mixer and have the water come out of a tap with lots of small holes in it!
Any help on a work-around would be very welcome.
(A new electric shower is a last resort because I would need an electrician to install an MCB and he wouldn't like my wired fuses and I'll end up with a complete rewire.)
TIA.