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Hi,
We have recently moved into a rural area into what I would call a "project". 4 bedroom house with 3 bathrooms. I have recently had the the gravity fed cylinder upgraded to an unvented cylinder for a few reasons
We have blue MDPE main supply coming into the house but I cant work out if its 25mm or 32mm, my gut says 25mm. The utility room tap nearest the main pumps out around 18lpm and we have around 1.6bar of static pressure and about 1.2bar of dynamic pressure when the utility sink tap is fully open. Unfortunately, the cold supply to the now new unvented cylinder is only 15mm from the main with around 16m of pipe work including the rise from ground to 1st floor.
The plan with the suites on the 1st floor is 2 showers and one bath. It would be nice to be able to have both showers providing a decent experience at the same time same time, but not essential. But I I would definitely like to improve the single shower experience we currently have.
So my question is this, is it worth upgrading the internal 15mm supply to the unvented to 22mm or should I just jump straight into a pumped accumulator like the Salamander AccuBoosts since the pressure of the system is not going to get me what I want anyway.
Thanks.
We have recently moved into a rural area into what I would call a "project". 4 bedroom house with 3 bathrooms. I have recently had the the gravity fed cylinder upgraded to an unvented cylinder for a few reasons
- Tank size increase from 140L to Gledhill 250L
- Plan on converting loft space so removal of header tanks
- Noise of shower booster previously in use was bad.
We have blue MDPE main supply coming into the house but I cant work out if its 25mm or 32mm, my gut says 25mm. The utility room tap nearest the main pumps out around 18lpm and we have around 1.6bar of static pressure and about 1.2bar of dynamic pressure when the utility sink tap is fully open. Unfortunately, the cold supply to the now new unvented cylinder is only 15mm from the main with around 16m of pipe work including the rise from ground to 1st floor.
The plan with the suites on the 1st floor is 2 showers and one bath. It would be nice to be able to have both showers providing a decent experience at the same time same time, but not essential. But I I would definitely like to improve the single shower experience we currently have.
So my question is this, is it worth upgrading the internal 15mm supply to the unvented to 22mm or should I just jump straight into a pumped accumulator like the Salamander AccuBoosts since the pressure of the system is not going to get me what I want anyway.
Thanks.