Hello there,
I'm of the opinion that this is by far the best place to offer my problem for comments - i have been helped lots of times by the advice given so i thought i'd give it a go!
I am looking at completing a second house renovation project after my first went well and am looking for some advice regarding the plumbing for my new en-suite bathroom.
Basically, this is no ordinary bathroom - its going to be of wetroom construction for a walk in shower area and a large whirlpool bath. The problem i am having working out is how to supply enough hot water for the showers and the bath.... let me explain!
The shower area will have 2 thermostatic showers installed, side by side to allow 2 to shower at once, the ones i am considering have 8" heads and 6 wall mounted body jets each. The showers need to be pumped to make it worth while and this is what i am thinking...
It doesn't matter if i have a combi or not as they obviously cant supply pumped showers however, it would be handy to have the instantaneous hot water to supply the kitchen sink, basins, washing machine etc. i've been looking at the superduty range of cylinders from albion and it appears that a combination of a combi boiler and one of these cylinders would work well. There is one thing that concerns me though - i have thought about using one shower pump to supply both showers but im not sure that this would provide the power i would like so have thought about using 2 pumps, one for each. The cylinder will have an S-flange fitted as recommended but im concerned that if im running 2 pumps simultaneously then starvation might occur at the pump inlet due to not enough water being available from the one flange. I dont want to completely overkill the project but the only solution i can think of is to have 2 smaller albion superduty cylinders, one for each shower and pump plumbed in a W-Plan design to a combi. The bath, when required could then be filled using the water from each cylinder (the bath is a 290L big one) so it wouldnt take an age to fill. The bath and showers obviously wont be used at the same time!
I know this plan requires lots of 22mm pipe work and certainly one 50 gallon tank in the loft but what do people think?
Am i crazy wanting this much or have i gone completely overboard? - i really want to complete the project as planned and would appreciate any comments.
Looking forward to some interesting replies!.....
I'm of the opinion that this is by far the best place to offer my problem for comments - i have been helped lots of times by the advice given so i thought i'd give it a go!
I am looking at completing a second house renovation project after my first went well and am looking for some advice regarding the plumbing for my new en-suite bathroom.
Basically, this is no ordinary bathroom - its going to be of wetroom construction for a walk in shower area and a large whirlpool bath. The problem i am having working out is how to supply enough hot water for the showers and the bath.... let me explain!
The shower area will have 2 thermostatic showers installed, side by side to allow 2 to shower at once, the ones i am considering have 8" heads and 6 wall mounted body jets each. The showers need to be pumped to make it worth while and this is what i am thinking...
It doesn't matter if i have a combi or not as they obviously cant supply pumped showers however, it would be handy to have the instantaneous hot water to supply the kitchen sink, basins, washing machine etc. i've been looking at the superduty range of cylinders from albion and it appears that a combination of a combi boiler and one of these cylinders would work well. There is one thing that concerns me though - i have thought about using one shower pump to supply both showers but im not sure that this would provide the power i would like so have thought about using 2 pumps, one for each. The cylinder will have an S-flange fitted as recommended but im concerned that if im running 2 pumps simultaneously then starvation might occur at the pump inlet due to not enough water being available from the one flange. I dont want to completely overkill the project but the only solution i can think of is to have 2 smaller albion superduty cylinders, one for each shower and pump plumbed in a W-Plan design to a combi. The bath, when required could then be filled using the water from each cylinder (the bath is a 290L big one) so it wouldnt take an age to fill. The bath and showers obviously wont be used at the same time!
I know this plan requires lots of 22mm pipe work and certainly one 50 gallon tank in the loft but what do people think?
Am i crazy wanting this much or have i gone completely overboard? - i really want to complete the project as planned and would appreciate any comments.
Looking forward to some interesting replies!.....
