We are in the process of some house renovations which will eventually involve moving our current kitchen and redoing our en-site. For starters we are putting in a water softener and ripping out the bathroom and I want to use the opportunity to prep for this as much as possible.
My idea of the piping is below which I was going to do with plastic as the existing pipework looks awful... not that I'm concerned by the looks, but it doesn't look like the most efficient way of doing it and has been hacked and changed since the 70's when it was originally done.
We have a new combi boiler and what looks to be a 15mm feed into the house after the stopcock, so I understand there will be certain limitations with pressure and flow. I am already at peace with not being able to have 2 showers running at the same time. I am replacing 2 electric ones which are absolutely awful, so anything will be better.
The advice I need is as follows:
1. Does my diagram seem a sensible approach to the pipework. The 15mm to 10mm reducers are the only thing I think is suspect. My reasoning is to try to take as little flow from the showers as possible? Would this even work or be worthwhile?
2. Is it worth getting a plumber in to look at moving / optimising the water metre as the 90 degree elbows seem like they are restricting the flow of water into the house? Also, what is the black cylinder after the stopcock? Water filter?
3. Should I reuse as much of the existing pipework as possible or am I better replacing? My thoughts for completely replacing are to minimise the number of joins which should reduce the places where the pipes can leak as well as maximising the flow. I can also isolate areas of the system so that I don't need all the water off if I want to start working on the en-suite. Some examples of the existing pipework:
Thanks in advance,
Paddy
My idea of the piping is below which I was going to do with plastic as the existing pipework looks awful... not that I'm concerned by the looks, but it doesn't look like the most efficient way of doing it and has been hacked and changed since the 70's when it was originally done.
We have a new combi boiler and what looks to be a 15mm feed into the house after the stopcock, so I understand there will be certain limitations with pressure and flow. I am already at peace with not being able to have 2 showers running at the same time. I am replacing 2 electric ones which are absolutely awful, so anything will be better.
The advice I need is as follows:
1. Does my diagram seem a sensible approach to the pipework. The 15mm to 10mm reducers are the only thing I think is suspect. My reasoning is to try to take as little flow from the showers as possible? Would this even work or be worthwhile?
2. Is it worth getting a plumber in to look at moving / optimising the water metre as the 90 degree elbows seem like they are restricting the flow of water into the house? Also, what is the black cylinder after the stopcock? Water filter?
3. Should I reuse as much of the existing pipework as possible or am I better replacing? My thoughts for completely replacing are to minimise the number of joins which should reduce the places where the pipes can leak as well as maximising the flow. I can also isolate areas of the system so that I don't need all the water off if I want to start working on the en-suite. Some examples of the existing pipework:
Thanks in advance,
Paddy