hello everyone....
ive just completed a monster project and run up against something i just can't fathom. Ive replastered my living room, which was back breaking, but came out well... i'd never done that before... the i installed a new bathroom. This included laying a new floating floor, installing a towel warmer (draining flushing and refilling the C/H) re-siting the loo and putting in a bath, false wall for a new shower, the full works really, on a 1937 house. I've really enjoyed it, and it aint a bad job, the tiling isnt perfect, but its only me that notices.
when i first turned the water on to the new shower (a mira go thermostatic power shower) it creaked a bit, then pretty much exploded off the wall, it was hilarious and scary at the same time, you couldnt make it up.
so i reassembled it, and tried again, same result pretty much, although the explosion took a little longer to occur. now, after 24hrs of head scratching i figured out that the cold water pressure is too high (about 3 bars i think) so i went out and got a PRV, reduced the water pressure to spec (about 1 bar) and it all worked fine for a while, but then after about three weeks, pop, it did it again, and this time when i reassembled it, the rubber pipe that connects the mixer to the pump was bulging when the water is turned on.
i'm just exhausted with it now, i've single handedly renovated my bathroom and now i think that the problem isnt the DYNAMIC water pressure, its the STATIC water pressure. So at last to my question... can any of you knowledgeable people point me in the direction of a PRV, preferebly 15mm compression fit that will control the static water pressure in me pipes. Or suggest a better fix of course? i am in you debt,
waterrat
ive just completed a monster project and run up against something i just can't fathom. Ive replastered my living room, which was back breaking, but came out well... i'd never done that before... the i installed a new bathroom. This included laying a new floating floor, installing a towel warmer (draining flushing and refilling the C/H) re-siting the loo and putting in a bath, false wall for a new shower, the full works really, on a 1937 house. I've really enjoyed it, and it aint a bad job, the tiling isnt perfect, but its only me that notices.
when i first turned the water on to the new shower (a mira go thermostatic power shower) it creaked a bit, then pretty much exploded off the wall, it was hilarious and scary at the same time, you couldnt make it up.
so i reassembled it, and tried again, same result pretty much, although the explosion took a little longer to occur. now, after 24hrs of head scratching i figured out that the cold water pressure is too high (about 3 bars i think) so i went out and got a PRV, reduced the water pressure to spec (about 1 bar) and it all worked fine for a while, but then after about three weeks, pop, it did it again, and this time when i reassembled it, the rubber pipe that connects the mixer to the pump was bulging when the water is turned on.
i'm just exhausted with it now, i've single handedly renovated my bathroom and now i think that the problem isnt the DYNAMIC water pressure, its the STATIC water pressure. So at last to my question... can any of you knowledgeable people point me in the direction of a PRV, preferebly 15mm compression fit that will control the static water pressure in me pipes. Or suggest a better fix of course? i am in you debt,
waterrat