Pressure problems

[PhilCor]

I've a eletric shower in my bathroom which is mains fed, big problem at round half 7 in the morning because I share my mains supply with a number of my neigbours...so when everyone is having a shower my pressure is a mere drop...was thinking about placing a storage cistern in the loft to fed the eletric shower, that way I'd always have a constant store
of water. What kind of pressure would I normally get if I place the tank in the loft and the shower is 3meters head height away?? Is their any problems that I'm unaware of that I could come accross?? Any response would be very greatful! Cheers.

 

[kevplumb]

you would be better off
if you go down that route
fitting a shower with a built in pump

 

[PhilCor]

Cheers for that but wouldn't you need a minimum working presure for one of those?? At busy time i'd say the pressure wouldn't be much more then 1bar or even slightly under!

 

[kevplumb]

.was thinking about placing a storage cistern in the loft to fed the eletric shower, that way I'd always have a constant store
of water.

you feedit from stored water

 

[PhilCor]

What du mean by that mate??

 

[kevplumb]

read your first post

 

[valhalla728]

I thought you got 1bar with 3m head anyway

 

[kevplumb]

I thought you got 1bar with 3m head anyway

think so

 

[PhilCor]

At the moment the shower is fed via the mains what I want to no is 'is it practcal to fit a tank to then feed the shower' and what kind of pressure would I expect to get from having the storage tank feeding just the shower?

 

[kevplumb]

right if you fit a storage tank you will get approx 4.5 psi

or in laymans terms forget it

unless you follow the link i posted and get a shower with a built in pump

then you can play happily till the tank runs dry

should you so desire

other advantage is if anybody turns a tap on it won't affect the shower