Reducing mixer shower pressure

[Deleted member 192609]

Can I get something that sits inside the shower hose on a mixer tap to reduce the pressure?!

It's great that the mains pressure at the taps means the bath fills quickly, but it also means the hand held shower head works like a pressure washer!

Don't really want to change anything cosmetically, but was wondering if there was something I could put inside the hose fitting...

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Get a bigger head

 

[Deleted member 192609]

Get a bigger head

I'd rather not change anything cosmetically, the head we've got fits nicely with the style of the taps and room in general

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Would a restrictor washer do it, fitted at the connection between mixer, and flexible pipe?

 

[Deleted member 192609]

Would a restrictor washer do it, fitted at the connection between mixer, and flexible pipe?

That's what I was thinking, just didn't know what to look for!

Cheers!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

That's what I was thinking, just didn't know what to look for!

Cheers!

You can make a disk, with a hole cutter, from a piece of scrap nylon or plastic. Then just drill a hole in the centre, enlarge gradually, until you get the pressure you are looking for.

 

[Deleted member 192609]

You can make a disk, with a hole cutter, from a piece of scrap nylon or plastic. Then just drill a hole in the centre, enlarge gradually, until you get the pressure you are looking for.

Great, I was wondering if that sort of thing would work, I'll give it a try!

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Could you fit a pressure reducing valve anywhere?

 

[Deleted member 192609]

Could you fit a pressure reducing valve anywhere?

Not without slowing the flow to the bath, which I'd rather not do...

 

[Deleted member 294929]

There you go.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zocipro-Restrictor-Reducer-Restrictors-Handheld/dp/B0BP92DGSQ/ref=asc_df_B0BP92DGSQ/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=641694994283&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7959726824486219993&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006764&hvtargid=pla-1944215973481&psc=1&mcid=f78c3b25bbd03031be8d3fa7c4add8d8